Archive for May, 2004

Cortical Empathy

Monday, May 17th, 2004

In a study, 100% of adults correctly recognized fear on the face of a subject, while only 50% of teens recognized fear. If seeing the results of the study alone, I would have speculated that this is simply because teens are less likely to feel fear themselves (and do adults misinterpret other emotions, like anger […]

XPathReader

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me! Howard first showed us XPathReader probably three years ago, and we’ve been trying to figure out how to put it in customers’ hands ever since. Now you can play with it, and even modify the source. It’s really a big leap forward in usability for streamed […]

Six Degrees of Boardrooms

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

Sorry to say it, but this makes FOAFNaut look bad. This guy made a beautiful browser for traversing the connections between board members and the companies they serve, and obviously he had to do a lot of manual work to scrape all of that data. And on the other hand, all of that FOAF data […]

Decision-Making Skills

Monday, May 10th, 2004

One of the least-discussed, but most important, skills of being a PM is driving decisions. Making good decisions, and helping others to make good decisions, plays a larger proportional role in PM than in any other job I’ve done. Normally people focus on the specification, communication, or project management skills of being a PM, and […]

Kimbro’s Introspection Notebook

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

[via Seb] Here’s an interview with Kimbro, regarding his idea of ?notebooking? as a meansof introspection. He describes some benefits which are consistent with the reported benefits of other forms of introspection, such as described by Carlos Castaneda, or even in the ancient admonition inscribed on the Parthenon to ?know thyself?. I really don’t think […]