I found myself lately quite interested in the “guru” editors. While my programmers sometimes find comfort in console editors, they just bugged me. So what changed? I guess it was many little moments of turbulence with my last editor, Jedit . Only the little things bugged me: I couldn’t remain in the home position on the keyboard when I saved because a dialog popped up; Startup is a little droopy ; It felt useless to learn all the keyboard command since they were unique to Jedit.

There are more that only come to mind when they frustrate me. Overall, it’s ...

Upward Mobility: focusing on and developing your current market. Prices, market size and margins move up.
Downward Mobility: Attending the unmet, unsolicited, unseen needs of undeveloped markets. Prices, market size and margins move down

The confusion and reactions that you can solicit from this commandment are plentiful and diverse. That should tell you that we are on to something.
Have you asked yourself why large corporations can’t innovate the way small ones do? Why is it that the passionate ...

 We all have done it.  Fail, and learn from it.  I hope I can learn from my expensive failures.  I would like to think of those as a very costly quality education.  Could have paid a Wharton tuition.

That’s the stupid way to learn.  Any expensive failure I have had could have been prevented by reading.  Sometimes quite easily prevented. Reading a book costs $0-$30, time and that’s it. Having read many books on the subject of business, it’s clear that I have gained a tactical and strategic wisdom that will save millions.

I think of ...

 Sorry, still in progress. This blog just got up and going again, this time much more efficient for my purposes. As I catch up and clean up a bit, I will be filling this page in. 

- Adam

 The following is my positive review of The Innovation Paradox, by Farson and Keyes. The book actually didn’t become interesting until 40 pages in.  I nearly gave up on it.  Plotting through, giving the benefit of the doubt, paid off by revealing some cunning management insight concerning innovation.  I also enjoyed their take on winning and success: that you can’t achieve it by focusing on it.  There is room for debate on the issue, but they defend their point well.

Let’s have the meat!  Littered throughout the book were small tokens of management insight.  It makes me ...

One of the little morsels of from First, Break All The Rules.  I remember reading it sometime back and thought I would reread my notes.  Ahh, notes.  Yes, that’s right! It was a fine book. Now I recall these morsels:

• Employees leave managers not companies
• The first reason an employee leaves is for lack of a clear job role.  They don’t know what to do, and get chastised for not doing it. I have seen that first hand many times
• Set the outcome, not the means to the outcome

The last point is something that I am so ...

A stroll over to Elance’s Skills Central tells us how many programmers and jobs are available.  I made this spreadsheet to compile the data. The ratio, on the right gives us a sense of the competitive nature in each technology. For example, it might be the easiest to land a job as a Flex developer, and most difficult as a JSP developer.  Well, it’s just data, interpret how you like.

Another title for this post could be “Availability of Talent Per Technology”. Either way you look at it, it’s interesting data.