Continuous Learning

Below are the web clippings of the day. Enjoy.

• Stevey’s Home Page - Being the Averagest
  
  Can you tell if someone is a great developer? Or is he/she just one who is very used to do things a particular way who never thought to improve beyond what he/she already knows how to do?

• Why you cannot learn much from past success - lifehack.org
  
  People really learn more from mistakes and failures than from successes.

• Creating Passionate Users: Are our tools making us dumber?
  
  The title says it all - are we becoming less capable because our tool are doing the work for us so we don’t have to think? When was the last time you did calculations by hand and do you still remember? I sure don’t

• Rands In Repose: 1.0
  
  Rands has an interesting model to look at version 1.0 companies and why it almost always fails. IMO the more technical the founders are, the less gap between pitch and product and the more likely it can succeed.

• So you want to be a consultant…?
  
  What it takes to be a consultant from someone who has been doing it since 1985. IMO, this is what it takes to be a professional, period, regardless of the status (i.e. employee, contractor, consultants).

• Creating Passionate Users: Don’t make the Demo look Done
  
  How to set the right expectations with stakeholders/users/etc on the current progress of the project through demos. If one uses polished demo early on, things will look done and the feedback will be minimal.