Have you ever tried to sort a set of strings programmatically only to be confused by the output? This usually happens with strings that contain a mixed set of numbers and letters.
David Koelle wrote a solution for this problem in 1997 called the Alphanum Algoritm.
I’m not the first to say it, and certainly won’t be the last – Seth Godin is a genius. His presentation at the Business of Software Conference absolutely blew me away the first time I saw it, and its worth your time to watch it.
A number of years ago I was listening to a talk by Andy Stanley, who is the senior pastor at North Point Community Church in the metro Atlanta area. He was speaking about choosing to cheat at work, and he has apparently turned that thought into a book. His point, which I think is a good one, is that we all have to cheat somewhere. The best option we can choose is to leave our jobs holding the bag and maximize our family relationships at home. Solid advice, particularly to those of us that are career-minded.
If we were honest with ourselves, we would probably admit that trust is one of the scariest words we ever in encounter. It’s hard to earn, quickly taken away, and must be constantly cultivated. It requires us to open ourselves up to others, which is probably what makes it so difficult.
Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, discusses the company’s secret sauce, including developing great teams of people.
In Ken Burns’ documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright, Burns establishes how the architect completed the drawings for Falling Water in less than three hours. Critically, Wright spent many months thinking about the project before putting pencil to paper.