5 warning signs: Does A/B testing lead to crappy products?

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • 5 warning signs: Does A/B testing lead to crappy products? – As big of a fan as measuring things as I am, the author makes some really good points. Realisitically you have to balance innovation and "gut" against metrics and measurement. Doing it well is an art, management is tough, no blog post, book or conference will ever change that.
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Amish Friendship Bread comes with a commitment

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • Amish Friendship Bread comes with a commitment – Recently got "Amish'd" at work, and it is indeed delicious. Best quote: "But of course it tastes good. It’s a concoction of sugar, oil, cinnamon, eggs, vanilla and more sugar. It tastes like a pound cake would taste, if you spent a week force-feeding it coffee cake."
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Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Chris Heisel
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Chris Heisel
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The Book Meme 2009

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Chris Heisel

“In a 60-page directive, Reinhard Heydrich aimed at a thorough review of all security procedures, to sharpen awareness and root out complacency.”

From Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

**The meme**

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The meme started [last year](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/14/the-book-meme/) courtesy of James Tauber, Greg Newman, Justin Lilly, Brian Rosner and Eric Florenzano.

Let’s see if we can get it started again this year…

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