More From Kierkegaard

The true knight of faith is always absolute isolation; the spurious knight is sectarian. This is an attempt to jump off the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a bargain price. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. In place of that, the sectarian Punchinello has a private theatre, a few good friends and comrades who represent the universal just about as well as the court observers in Gulddasen represent justice.

BarCamp Boston, Day 1

Hacking the Brain

These worms are pretty cool. However, and this is my philosophy talking, it is one thing to stimulate a neuron making an arm twitch, but it is a wholly different to alter decisions. The process of cognition has always been unattainable for philosophy. And philosophy is science.

Hadoop

This seems like an awesome technology for analyzing huge and differentiated data as it comes into your system. This is a winner for aggregating streams of data. It does not seem to be a data store, whatsoever.

HTML5/Flash

Apparently the flash developer community hates HTML5 because it can’t do things that they’re used. I would argue that the things they think they need, they really don’t. 30 FPS in a browser is fine. If you want a true engine of some sort (for something other than demonstration purposes) you’re doing it wrong. C-level programming is still useful and necessary.

SaaS Price Points

This is the one I had the most problems with. I don’t understand the need to have a good reputation among your bad customers. Recognize the relationship is not of the kind you want, and get rid of it. The messaging is the problem. Work on the relationships with the customers you want. Don’t passively accept the world presented to you. Actively create the world you want.