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Why we do everything wrong in social media

Let’s assume, based on a random fact that I just made up for the moment, that 50% of all businesses that succeed are restaurants. Based on this fact, as a business consultant, you advise me that I should offer daily specials, make up flyers that I post on cars around the neighborhood, be sure I…

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To specialize or not to specialize, in 140 characters or less

AN ACTUAL CONVERSATION THIS WEEK … “This paper is not going to be as much an academic treatise as most of the ones I write, but I am hoping it will be more interesting. I was wondering about the fact that some well-respected people say the secret to career success is to be the foremost…

Knowing Code Doesn’t Make You an Expert Programmer Any More than Knowing English Makes You Hemingway

So, I am writing these papers on moving from novice to intermediate programmer and Kim Le Bouton has to go apply logic to it and ask, “Just how do you define a novice programmer, anyway?” I was tempted to be a smart ass about it and answer that it was anyone who didn’t come to…