- To be good in sales, you have to be able to lie to yourself about the quality of a product, because the customer will not be able to believe it's a good product unless you believe it's a good product.
- To be good in sales, you have to be able to convince yourself that a customer has a need for something that they in actuality have no need for.
- To be good in sales, you have to have the belief that "the product is awesome because I am awesome."
- To be good in sales, you have to do anything you can to get a sale
- A good sales person can sell sand to arabs and ice to eskimos.
Product Managers
- To be a good product manager, you cannot lie to yourself that a product is superior.
- To be a good product manager, you have to design a product that people will really want and really need.
- To be a good product manager, you have to be able to say "I am only decent if the product is decent".
- To be a good product manager, you have to have to be willing to push back against a change that will harm the long-term usability or usefulness of a product for everyone else at the cost of getting a short term sale for one specific customer.
- To be a good product manager, you have to make sure your company won't be selling sand to arabs or ice to eskimos, but rather selling ice to arabs to cool their drinks and sand to eskimos to give their cars traction.
With the rare exception of someone like Steve Jobs who's good at both roles, promoting an outstanding salesperson to do product management is like hiring a convicted arsonist to run your fire department..
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
If would forget the mistakes I made in choosing them as a partner, learn nothing from those mistakes, and end up with someone just as horrible as the last person.
Teach the kids how to write a labor-saving screenscraping app that automatically logs into an adult website and in a short amount of time downloads an unthinkable amount of Pr0n.
You could make a film about a pile of dead body parts assembled into the form of a man being shocked by lightning and being given the will to live. You could even add some wanton violence and philosophical questions of existence to make the story interesting.
"NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl"
If I was a Yahoo employee and read this memo, I would assume it would mean the company was desperate enough to hire Beck as HR director.
Here's my memory of what happened. Maybe it's falsely implanted by the NSA. Feel free to mod down -1 Heretical.
When the web first was popular, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about dynamic and interactive GUI's that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML by itself is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck JavaScript and DHTML through the back door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps
Then later on, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about asynchronous network communication that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML + DHTML + JavaScript by itself is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck Ajax through the back door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps.
Then later on still, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about the offline storage that doesn't require network communication that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML + DHTML + JavaScript + Ajax is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck HTML5 offline storage through the door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps.
From my point of view I see an endless cycle of web zealots who keep saying that fat clients are irrelevant, yet who seem to be adding one layer of kludge after another just to keep up with basic fat client functionality that they keep denying is unimportant to users. After all I've seen, I really can't take web people very seriously.
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Is the new staying at Holiday Inn Express.
When you have enough resolution to zoom in and accurately reconstruct Kim Kardashian's retina and fingerprints.
You'll have trouble getting a consensus as to an agreed-upon operational definition of "Productivity".
Vernor Vinge wrote an entertaining book based around this technology.
Salespeople
- To be good in sales, you have to be able to lie to yourself about the quality of a product, because the customer will not be able to believe it's a good product unless you believe it's a good product.
- To be good in sales, you have to be able to convince yourself that a customer has a need for something that they in actuality have no need for.
- To be good in sales, you have to have the belief that "the product is awesome because I am awesome."
- To be good in sales, you have to do anything you can to get a sale
- A good sales person can sell sand to arabs and ice to eskimos.
Product Managers
- To be a good product manager, you cannot lie to yourself that a product is superior.
- To be a good product manager, you have to design a product that people will really want and really need.
- To be a good product manager, you have to be able to say "I am only decent if the product is decent".
- To be a good product manager, you have to have to be willing to push back against a change that will harm the long-term usability or usefulness of a product for everyone else at the cost of getting a short term sale for one specific customer.
- To be a good product manager, you have to make sure your company won't be selling sand to arabs or ice to eskimos, but rather selling ice to arabs to cool their drinks and sand to eskimos to give their cars traction.
With the rare exception of someone like Steve Jobs who's good at both roles, promoting an outstanding salesperson to do product management is like hiring a convicted arsonist to run your fire department. .
Because you can't Instagram your rampage with a mere cash register.
For the articles.
It would be 1995 and I would be reading this article on Usenet.
Fry something.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
Why bother with the time, expense, and hard work of amateur science when you can just outsource it to people who make stuff up?
If Google Wave was featured in a movie, it would be directed by John Romero and people would be trying to kill it with a shotgun.
If would forget the mistakes I made in choosing them as a partner, learn nothing from those mistakes, and end up with someone just as horrible as the last person.
Found alive having a life. More news at a 11.
that gets you stranded in a bad neighborhood.
Not plausible. More likely a large nugget of Adamantium.
who do it for the groupies.
I wonder if this is going to follow the same trend.
It's quite possible that if I didn't have to use this @#1%ing approximate computer I could definitively answer that question.
with an infinite amount of type and infinite amount of personhood will eventually form their own corporation.
Teach the kids how to write a labor-saving screenscraping app that automatically logs into an adult website and in a short amount of time downloads an unthinkable amount of Pr0n.
Given the countless galaxies, each with its own supermassive black hole, just like intersecting waves...would you like a piece of toast?
You could make a film about a pile of dead body parts assembled into the form of a man being shocked by lightning and being given the will to live. You could even add some wanton violence and philosophical questions of existence to make the story interesting.
Because Adobe can release Vermeer Photoshop plugins that make boobs and LOLcats look photorealistic. That's why.
"NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl"
If I was a Yahoo employee and read this memo, I would assume it would mean the company was desperate enough to hire Beck as HR director.
Here's my memory of what happened. Maybe it's falsely implanted by the NSA. Feel free to mod down -1 Heretical.
When the web first was popular, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about dynamic and interactive GUI's that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML by itself is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck JavaScript and DHTML through the back door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps
Then later on, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about asynchronous network communication that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML + DHTML + JavaScript by itself is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck Ajax through the back door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps.
Then later on still, the web folks told us that web apps would replace desktop apps. And the desktop people said "what about the offline storage that doesn't require network communication that fat client apps provide?" And the web people told the desktop people "users won't really miss that. HTML + DHTML + JavaScript + Ajax is good enough." And when no one was looking, the web folks snuck HTML5 offline storage through the door to cover up the insufficiency they denied existed with web apps.
From my point of view I see an endless cycle of web zealots who keep saying that fat clients are irrelevant, yet who seem to be adding one layer of kludge after another just to keep up with basic fat client functionality that they keep denying is unimportant to users. After all I've seen, I really can't take web people very seriously.