Software As She’s Developed

You know, the reason I’ve been passionate about podcasting since the beginning is that I’m a bit thingy about the written word. It has its merits, but multimedia’s where it’s at for true absorbtion of concepts. It’s the way we’re wired to learn and the no.1 reason why universities survived the printing press. So I could […]

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Kathy Sierra explains a variation of the “Tipping Point”: The Koolaid Point: A Threshold at which enough users become so passionate that others accuse them of “drinking the koolaid”. Often fueled by commercial success. Kathy makes a great point: passion doesn’t mean happiness - people can be passionately opposed too. Nice to see how universal this phenomenon is […]

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