Soul of an Engineer #11
This Issue: Ingenuity, War of Art, Xanadu, Slideshows and Humanities
To create Art, discover yourself first
Book Review: The War of Art is an internal war. How to win it? Steven Pressfield's explanation is a tour de force.
A Lesson in Ingenuity
NASA's Mars Helicopter is powered by open source contributions of 12,000 developers. What does that tell us about the future of software?
Soul of an Engineer #10
This Issue: Sacred Plans, Context-Specificity, Conway's Law, Exploding Volcanoes, Growing Up
Plans.....Too Sacred
We need shorter planning cycles and less sacred plans in enterprise software.
Soul of an Engineer #9
This Issue: AI Winter, Machine Shortcuts, Centaurs, Moravec's Paradox.
Soul of an Engineer #8
This Issue: Invisible WIP, Goodhart's Law, Mass Produced Art, Changing Nature
Soul of an Engineer #7
This Issue: The Machine-Tool Mindset, Sh*t User Stories, Daffodils
Soul of an Engineer #6
This Issue: Elusive Haven, Tim Berner Lee's New Project, Complexity, Good Understanding
Soul of an Engineer #5
This Issue: Navigating Tar Pits, Automation, Internet's Guts, Changing the World