On the left I have a screenshot about Highland dancing. I am not sure what it is, but even if you win at it, it doesn’t matter. Just like the electric car race. Even if Tesla ‘wins’, it will be immediately run over by the big guys. Yesterday I blogged about how Tesla should not [...]
Browsing Posts published in September, 2008
I read that the city of San Jose is trying to attract a manufacturer to its borders. They gave an electric car company Tesla Motors a rent-free lease on 89 acres of land. A little background, please bear with me. I used to live in New York City, where the city government would fall all [...]
Many years ago, there was this concept of piecework. Let’s say you were a manufacturer of knickknacks or whatever, and instead of setting up a factory and an assembly line, you wanted to save a few pennies. You would then give the raw materials to the workers, who would take it home, assemble it at [...]
United E-mail leaves out critical information
Another example of bad design at Microsoft. Here I have to choose one option and then hit OK. Why make me click twice? Why have a cancel button? This is an action that requires a decision, not chickening out. Instead of me just complaining about it, I offer here is a replacement design. It is [...]
So I got a CD with e-loan. Nice company, good rates. I was even pleasantly surprised how I did not have to repeat my information to all the customer service people, they kept track about what was going on. Believe me, if you want a good rate and good customer service, get a CD from [...]
I could not get another cruddy Microsoft product, Microsoft Live Messenger to work correctly. So I click on the debug tool, and it pops up this weird connection Troubleshooter. So, the test results go through all of the steps and…. NOTHING. It still did not fix it. The design of this ‘troubleshooter’ is so bad, [...]
When opera was introduced, it had a limited audience. Same for rap. Now, rap is out there, for everyone. It has even become a great way for geeks to battle out the merits of various search engines. Two white guys and a black guy dressed in a skintight blue suit duke out the merits of [...]
There are many many articles and books written on business, but this interview by Jason Fried with the proprietor of 37signals, a successful software company, is a very concise and useful writeup.
