Nobody makes original content anymore nowadays. It's all reboot, remake, sequel, prequel, collaboration, tribute, trilogy, spin-off, cover, 'special' edition and so on.
So why all the fuss about copyrights? People are copying and rehashing old ideas anyway...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Simple truth about methodology
A method is a series of practices, procedures, workflows, and tools that guide people to achieve their goals without falling into bad habits.
It is unfortunate people need this method. If left to their own devices, people are simply limited in their ability to toe the line, stay the course.
The methods we are looking for, aim to turn the inherent weaknesses of people into strengths. Or at least accept the weakness exists, and work around it.
Agile methods could be that what we need.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Very Predictible
After a long period where the whole world complains the dollar is so cheap versus the euro, the moment I buy a ticket to the States, the Euro Dollar exchange rate falls in favour of the USD.
After a period of downtime, I get to planning ONE event. The day right before the event, another absolutely urgent thing happens. Couldn't it have been urgent when I had a period of downtime?
It's like I'm my own entangled particle.
After a period of downtime, I get to planning ONE event. The day right before the event, another absolutely urgent thing happens. Couldn't it have been urgent when I had a period of downtime?
It's like I'm my own entangled particle.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
A millisecond of added value
I have extreme difficulty understanding how day traders and stock brokers can actually find added value in a millisecond. That's also probably why I still fly coach, while they fly first class.
In my world however, everything we accomplish is done in discrete steps. Sure, these can be overlapping and/or in parallel, but we take increments to achieve our goals. Every step costs some effort, some investment, and the outcome is reaching the goal.
Now humans are simply not equipped to do stuff in a millisecond. We can type fast, talk quickly, run a 100m in 9 seconds and a bit, but a millisecond is simply too short for us to do anything with.
How in Hoff's name can anyone assign a money value to a millisecond? A stock that costs $ 0.002 more after a millisecond, makes a trader's day when he sells 100.000 of them.
When you're talking about this scale, and these numbers, it's no longer about skill, effort, achievement. It's all about luck, coincidence. Maybe intuition, but it is no longer possible to find cause and effect, because humans are not equipped to judge that at this scale with our own senses.
That also means, whether we get rich or poor, fail or succeed in meeting our goals, these are outcomes that we don't directly control. Unless you develop the senses to notice a millisecond, that is.
In my world however, everything we accomplish is done in discrete steps. Sure, these can be overlapping and/or in parallel, but we take increments to achieve our goals. Every step costs some effort, some investment, and the outcome is reaching the goal.
Now humans are simply not equipped to do stuff in a millisecond. We can type fast, talk quickly, run a 100m in 9 seconds and a bit, but a millisecond is simply too short for us to do anything with.
How in Hoff's name can anyone assign a money value to a millisecond? A stock that costs $ 0.002 more after a millisecond, makes a trader's day when he sells 100.000 of them.
When you're talking about this scale, and these numbers, it's no longer about skill, effort, achievement. It's all about luck, coincidence. Maybe intuition, but it is no longer possible to find cause and effect, because humans are not equipped to judge that at this scale with our own senses.
That also means, whether we get rich or poor, fail or succeed in meeting our goals, these are outcomes that we don't directly control. Unless you develop the senses to notice a millisecond, that is.
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