I report a conversation with a colleague who was complaining that he had the same damn stuff in his lunch sack day after day.      ...

In an earlier post, I said that in order to be more effective introducing new techniques and technology, we needed to become practitioners o...

If you're a writer, or hope to be, please read this article: http://www.redhammer.info/news/agent-publisher / http://amplify.com/u/a14tu...

After being in the computing business now for more than half a century, one thing worries me more than almost anything else: our lack of a s...

Note 1: This post is extracted from Chapter 9 of my book, CHANGE: Planned and Unplanned . Note 2: This book was written for project leader...

Dean Wesley Smith has written another scathing post about "agents" trying to scam writers in "the new world of publishing....

I was one of the workers on Project Mercury. My job was to design and implement the space tracking network, and particularly the multiprogra...

Yesterday, Don Gause and I posted out book on problem definition, Are Your Lights On? —a book many have called a "classic." Toda...

URL:   http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/11/135300971/... by Robert Krulwich This is not a trick. There are no invisible strings, no...

See my guest post on Ellis Vidler's blog: "How Fast is Fast Writing?" http://ow.ly/4ycjq

My e-pal, L.M. May has written the most striking, useful blog post I've seen in a long time. L.M. says: "The following essay is abo...

This is why I wrote the book, "Managing Yourself and Others." https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/39685?ref=JerryWeinberg > M...

I adapted this blog post from my new eBook, Becoming a Change Artist This little case example followed a number of other examples, as a kin...

Read the entire article, then read Feynman's letters. Amplify’d from www.theamericanscholar.org Permission Givers By William Zinsser Whe...

Typical crisis-provoking events in the life of a programming team are machine malperformance, machine overload, unyielding bugs in critical ...

I chose just one of the many fine entries on the TESTHEAD blog. Read this one, then try some of the others. Michael can write--but most of a...

Pay attention to Mr. Lankford! Amplify’d from www.publishersweekly.com Waiting for a Fair E-book Split - David to Goliath: Keep the ...

I'm an author who's old enough to remember when the people who ran "Big Publishing" were book people—people who had some f...

In response to a number of reader requests, I've asked author Marilyn Meredith to give us an essay on her experience with conference pla...

The writing business is one of the most difficult to break into. (into which to break?) Excellent writing and story-telling are not sufficie...