Because we seem often to be the quintessential Dilbert workplace.
- Save Me Time, Save Yourself Trouble: Buy Macintosh
- Why the Internet support specialist wants you to buy Macintosh. Hell hath no fury like a Windows user who discovers the Macintosh advantage.
- Anticipating failure
- Whenever a computer expert claims that you won’t have to open the window and that it is okay to seal it shut, require that somewhere on their upgrade they have to include Douglas Adams’s quote about air conditioning.
- IT’s rarefied view of obsolescence
- In IT, where everyone ends up trying to get the latest equipment, it is easy to forget that the rest of the world keeps using things until they are no longer useful.
- Losing and missing the point
- Two random and exceedingly boring observations about letting people play free, and the weight of unquestioned tradition.
- Design for the future, but don’t code for the future
- When writing code, future-proofing your design is good (usually). But don’t actually write code for the future, write code for today. You know what you’re doing today, and you don’t know what you’re doing tomorrow.
- Seven habits of meeting-starved people
- I’ll bet I could get rich by creating a five-part series of four-hour meetings on how to not have meetings. We’d spend every day talking about how people need to better prioritize their time, and then at the end we’d schedule follow-up meetings. I could do this—but then I’d have recreated Seven Habits.
- Pigeon managers
- Random reinforcement explains manager behavior?
