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A manifesto for software engineers in search of meaningful work

There are no right answers to wrong questions. –Ursula K. Le Guin

Designing and building a real-time, easy-to-understand, formal financial model of a business.

Giving every employee autonomy and flexibility to do their best while maintaining a high degree of accountability and auditing.

Managing raises without managers: a distributed, uniform and disintermediated process

Developing software systems -and perhaps any system– implies mastering the arts of uncertainty and complexity.

How can knowledge-workers train for collaboration in 30 minutes.

Information is a vital form of aid in itself […] Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources. — World Disasters Report 2005 (cross-posted at InSTEDD

Lecture at Mahidol

A couple of days ago we started working on a new visualization for Riff’s acitivity. The requirement was to find a way of representing the relationship between items tag with two or more tags, the users who were tagging and the evolution of the tags...