Gerald Weinberg's Secrets of Writing and Consulting
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Change Artist Challenge #5: Being The Catalyst

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Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change. - Robert Burns Although change artists often work as prime ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Change Artist Challenge #4: changing a relationship

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Your fourth challenge will be to undertake changing a relationship. The purpose is to apply some of your learnings about congruence and conf...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Readers Pay, but Kindle Doesn't Pay Authors

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One good reason many international readers should buy my books through Smashwords—save lots of money. Amplify’d from davidgaughran.wordpress...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

The future of book publishing

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Kris slices up yet another repetition of a stupid old prediction. Masterful writing and thinking, as usual from Kris. If you're interest...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

Change Artist Challenge #3: Changing Nothing is Doing Something

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Of course I am idle, but I am not idle by nature; I simply haven't yet discovered what I can do here...  - Sophie Tolstoy The purpose of...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Change Artist Challenge #2: Making One Small Change

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     I report a conversation with a colleague who was complaining that he had the same damn stuff in his lunch sack day after day.      ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Change Artist Challenge #1

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In an earlier post, I said that in order to be more effective introducing new techniques and technology, we needed to become practitioners o...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

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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...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

Beyond Agile Programming

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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...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

The Assumption of Fixed Requirements

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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...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Writers Are Losing the Fight Again

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Dean Wesley Smith has written another scathing post about "agents" trying to scam writers in "the new world of publishing....
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Project Mercury

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I was one of the workers on Project Mercury. My job was to design and implement the space tracking network, and particularly the multiprogra...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

"Smashwords vs. Kindle?" Are Your Lights On?

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Yesterday, Don Gause and I posted out book on problem definition, Are Your Lights On? —a book many have called a "classic." Toda...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

It Flies! Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

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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...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

How Fast is Fast Writing?

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See my guest post on Ellis Vidler's blog: "How Fast is Fast Writing?" http://ow.ly/4ycjq
Sunday, April 03, 2011

Learned Helplessness

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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...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Managing Yourself

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This is why I wrote the book, "Managing Yourself and Others." https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/39685?ref=JerryWeinberg > M...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Knowing What to Leave Alone

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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...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Are you a permission giver? Feynman was.

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Read the entire article, then read Feynman's letters. Amplify’d from www.theamericanscholar.org Permission Givers By William Zinsser Whe...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

How to Manage Teams Congruently

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