Daily Archives: July 10, 2007

Small World

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 10, 2007

Many of us who worked in high tech jobs in the early eighties read Tracy Kidder’s “The Soul of a New Machine,” a book Wired called “the original nerd epic.” I couldn’t put it down until I had finished. It told the story of a dedicated team that put together a new computer for Data [...]

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Synchronicity and a few loose ends…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 10, 2007

Sting. Dead squirrel picture. …zombie squirrel attack is actually a variation on a classic vendor relations management trick. The key is to elide the power disparities in the presentation to the consumer, with bullshit or bogus rules enforced by a script — while separately extolling the power of the discrete individual, whose will to power [...]

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