Sometimes, it’s good to unlearn.
Think backwards, throw out your preconceived notions, forget about dependencies, and ignore your constraints.
If you search long enough, you just might find the right problem to fix. When you focus on the right problem, you might actually surprise yourself with what you can come up with.
Q-Drum solved the right problem.
The real problem…
A novel solution…
I usually don’t rave about books until after I finish reading them. I’m going to make an exception because I just completed reading two great chapters that are already worth telling everyone that this is shaping up to be a wonderful read.
The book I’m referring to is an older book (1999) called Natural Capitalism. I’ve only spent two evenings with this book and I’m already a huge fan.
The book is big and dense, but it has a ton of thought and supporting evidence behind it. Simply put, this book kicks ass.
I’ve heard this book mentioned a few times by a few different people, but I decided to buy it after seeing it referenced by Ryan Martens during a presentation at Agile 2007. Ryan pleaded his case for the “greening of software” and made a few interesting references to the book.
My mind is swirling with ideas and thoughts after flipping through the introductory chapters.
You can find the book on Amazon or you can download it (chapter by chapter) on the Natural Capitalism website.
Be sure to take a look at the Global Awareness layer in Google Earth if you haven’t stumbled across it yet.
I recently got lost in viewing the information about Darfur. Google Earth has turned into a wonderful medium for viewing information that other media has a hard time matching.
In addition to the great medium, I’d also encourage you to take a look at the content that is provided (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) on the crisis in Darfur.
Hi. I'm Ben Carey and this is my blog. I write about a wide variety of things that I'm interested in.
