Bob Pritchett

I stumbled across this 75 year-old floorplan of the directors' floor in a bank.

Life on the directors' floor looked pretty nice, with the fancy lobbies, meeting rooms, and private dining. But it also looks cut-off from what was happening in the bank, being so removed and isolated from the floors below. How did they stay in touch?

I imagined men ensconced in plush offices with private washrooms and 1930's office technology, sitting alone in deathly quiet rooms for hours on end. I imagined quiet conversations in the dining room and mail arriving once a day. No email. No instant messaging. No interruptions. It seems so slow, so dull, so wonderfully productive...

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I think Microsoft's Silverlight is pretty cool, and I'm glad we'll have a way to leverage XAML/WPF/C# for rich UI on the web.

But the trend towards Flash and Silverlight video players is killing my favorite feature: "Play Speed > Fast"

Being able to watch one-hour technical talks at 1.4x speed is real value-add. The presenters may be brilliant,but they are rarely concise speakers. And when they start coding a sample live...it's a lot like watching grass grow. Or watching someone type.

Ctrl+Shift+G (in Windows Media Player) and we're in hyperdrive. Everybody sounds smarter, and I get change from my hour investment.

Channel 9, Google Tech Talks, every conference session video... don't leave me in real-time! Please don't go to Flash or Silverlight without fast playback.

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Wow... what a great post by Seth Godin.

Sure, you're working long, but "long" and "hard" are now two different things. In the old days, we could measure how much grain someone harvested or how many pieces of steel he made. Hard work meant more work. But the past doesn't lead to the future. The future is not about time at all. The future is about work that's really and truly hard, not time-consuming. It's about the kind of work that requires us to push ourselves, not just punch the clock. Hard work is where our job security, our financial profit, and our future joy lie.

As Logos gets bigger, my days get filled with lots of conversations. I don't sit and write code anymore; I talk to people. But are they productive conversations? Are they the hard ones?

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There are some pretty long sentences in the Greek New Testament, and parsing them can lead to large syntax graphs.

Nothing like this, though...

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