The Pilgrim’s Progress
I've heard this story before but never read it. Now I'm reading it. I love how John Bunyan is using general terms for the names of characters. Such as Obstinate, Help, Worldly-wiseman, Good-will, Interpreter, and others (haven't gotten to the end of the book yet).
Here's the whole book (in PDF) for those that would be interested in reading it:
The Pilgrim's Progress
W. Edwards Deming on Management
"A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management. A psychologist that possesses even a crude understanding of variation as will be learned in the experiment with the Red Beads (Ch. 7) could no longer participate in refinement of a plan for ranking people."
This is something I'll need to do more research of. As I believe it is to be true.
Discovering the will of God for my life
I am looking for what God wants me to do. What should I be passionate for? Is His will general or specific for each person?
Here's a verse to get me going:
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)
Dan Pink on Motivation
"There's a mismatch between what Science knows and what Business does"
Games instead of grades!
James Paul Gee on why games, not grades should be used in teaching our children.
What is teamwork?
In a post on Harvard Business Blog site, Steven DeMaio talks about the Art of Learning from a Colleague. Although, he is talking about working together in the copy writing field, the topic applies to Software Development and other domains.
In more agile software development teams, developers exercise pair programming. As Steven experienced getting the work done in a shorter amount of time, likewise, the pair programming team generates higher quality code.
In my experience working together with another person on any task/project has always yielded better results then doing it alone.
