In Search of New Software Cultures
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In Search of New Software Cultures
If you zoom far enough out, is it possible that software companies in the future are either suppliers or marketing businesses?
Blake Robbins • Modern Suppliers
Work has successfully wrapped itself around shiny toys, all of which are housed in an even shinier phone. Whereas my old Blackberry was an unwilling leash handed out to me and my colleagues, the tools of today are gladly accepted and used by people all around the world. We willingly tether ourselves to the constant demands of the workplace, either ... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
Increasingly, this is a common arrangement for producing new Web sites, new electronic goods, new magazines, new buildings, new ad campaigns, new pharmaceuticals, and just about any other product or service whose key ingredients are the brainpower, creativity, skill, and commitment of the people involved. To craft a new piece of software, high-tech
... See moreDaniel H. Pink • Free Agent Nation
We’ve become enamored with new technologies, new software, and new devices, and too often large companies and even solo companies try to incorporate them into their existing structures in an effort to “keep up.”
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
And just as consumers shift to new mindsets, so too does industry. Over the past 20 years, nearly every industry has hired, restructured, and re-oriented itself around mobile workflows, products, or business lines. This transformation is as significant as any hardware or software innovation — and, in turn, creates the business case for subsequent i... See more
Matthew Ball • A Framework for the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc
Software, as a result, reflects nothing so much as people: their histories and dreams, intentions and fears, worldviews and milieus.
Chaim Gingold • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)
Great software products aren’t simply a collection of buttons, icons, and menus. They shape how we think and who we aspire to be.
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more