Nov articles

Think Integration, Not Implementation

"Features are always and everywhere aspects of integration, not implementation."---Righting Software, Juval LöwyMy love for architecture has grown even more refined following the above description. The idea that designing against a feature spec is just ludicrous is one of the most counterintuitive ideas I've come across lately. It …

What's Not Special About 'Special Offers'

Special offers are not simple. While their intention is to make the proposition attractive to new clients, I find them very confusing especially if the intention is to establish a long-term business relationship. I believe that there are very particular cases where a special offer makes sense e.g. if it …

Software is Problem Solving Media

Media is designed to deliver some experience. Software is a special form of media with the goal of delivering a solution experience. In other words, unlike traditional passive media, software is active media for solving specific problems. That’s all there is to it!

The Achilles Heel of Formal Education

Universities are in the business of canonicalisation: they want to turn the exoticness of a career into a recipe for training thousands of young minds and in the process pocket the proceeds. There’s just one major problem with that: most illustrious careers are actually a hack resulting from a …

The Essence of Business Success

Success in business is predominantly the result of two tasks: outbidding and undercutting rivals for the same resources. Outbidding determines its capacity to consume resources and undercutting its capacity to conclude successful sales. While customer service and quality are very important, these are lagging measures. That is, it is far …