Getting it done?

You know what you want to accomplish.

You know how you'd like everything to turn out. The real question is, "what are you willing to make sacrifices for?" What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

One model of organization is to find something that you're good at and that's easy and straightforward and get paid for that. The other model is to seek out things that are insanely difficult and do those instead.

"How do we do something so difficult that others can't imagine doing it?" is a fine question to ask every now and then.

"There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician"
-Hans Bethe, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.

Individualität im Personalmanagement ..

ist weiterhin der Schlüssel zum Erfolg!

sagt nicht nur perbit ..

Maßgeschneidertes Customizing schafft die beste Voraussetzung für einwandfrei funktionierende softwaregestützte Prozesse. Die Anpassung des Personalmanagement-Systems an die unternehmensspezifischen Gegebenheiten geschieht bei perbit präzise und schnell. Flexible Individualisierung ohne großen Aufwand.

.. sondern auch Dan Bricklin in 2014 in Bezug auf Microsoft..

“Microsoft came from engineers building things: programmers, programmers, programmers — and the hearts and minds of programmers mattered a lot to them. People want to customise things, make it right for what their problem is. It’s the difference between being a carpenter and being an architect — one size does not fit all.

Microsoft built systems that could be customised, so users could replace that part themselves and it listened to a lot of people and provided what they wanted, all the bells and whistles. People say you end up with bloatware and only 10% of the features get used by any user but that 10% is different for a lot of users. Apple went for smaller number of people and that’s OK because there’s Microsoft for the rest."

What's the point?

Occasionally, especially lately since I've retired, some people say something like this: "It's great that you still go to work every day, but I don't see the point."

The point is really simple. I'm a software developer. I decided that's what I wanted to do when I was in my late teens. I never ask myself why I do it. When it clicked for me at that young age, it was like it probably is for a person who plays soccer professionally, or who plays in a rock band.

We don't question the point of them doing what they do, so why would people question what I still do ?

I probably know the answer. They see software development and programming as a job. If you don't have to work at it, why do you still do it?

I never felt that software was a job. For me, strange as it may seem, it was a challenge. I had great stuff to do. And I'm not finished. So that's the point.

I've been doing it for years. To me, it's gratifying to have people use my software and for me to hear what they want and the problems they encounter so I can improve things. That's an awareness of data, and it informs what I do. These are puzzles that I love. To me software is like a performing art, it's never finished, always evolving. I do it even if I'm the only one using the software. But it's much much better if there are others, the more, the better.

"I think of software engineering as one of the few skills where you can create something new and exciting *every* day. There is almost no other creative skill that allows you to do that. And it makes many software builders true artists."
-Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services.

Held des Tages, WM 08.07.2014

Miroslav Klose, Germany's leading goalscorer with 71 goals in 136 international games, he is the third player to score at four World Cup finals, -2002, 2006, 2010, 2014.

16 Goals in 23 World Cup games, (Brazil legend Pele and West Germany's Uwe Seeler both scored at the 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1970 finals.)


Germany have never lost a game in which he has scored.