Friday, June 28, 2013

Venture Capital

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“Writing the check is the easy part.” Genentech, Apple, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, … none of them would exist, nor would a hundred others that c...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Fortune Cookie in Hex Code

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Twenty years ago, a friend of mine with two satellite dishes to the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had a proble...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

BASIC: Turing's Truth

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Alan Turing showed that any finite-state machine can model any other.  That is how the team at Bletchley Park built the Bombe to imitate ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Awesome Austin Foods

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Locally crafted foods abound here in Austin. The list of "must" places to eat runs for long pages in the Chronicle .  Even The Oni...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Meanwhile ...

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For the past three weeks, several projects took me away from blogging. "Documentation for Developers" was the topic when I address...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Readability is the Only Metric

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What you can measure, you can improve.   Whether you need creative content for e-commerce or step-by-step instructions for machine repair, y...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

How to Hire a Technical Writer

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Readability is the only metric.  Microsoft Word offers a readability score under the Grammar & Spelling checker off the Tools menu.  The...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

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He walked from Hungary to Tibet and brought the language of Tibet to the West.  His grammar of their language is also the foundation of...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

The Success of the WEIRD People

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No single cause explains our standard of living.  From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, and now the inform...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Entrepreneurship

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Writing over 300 newspaper and magazine articles about business, technology, and culture, I have interviewed very many entrepreneurs. Perhap...