A PDF version of my slidedeck for the closing keynote at PHP|tek titled "Chinese Proverbs" and given at PHP|tek Chicago in May 2009.
There was no abstract for this talk.
17. They say if you repeat [Terry
Chay]’s name out loud six times
before a mirror in a darkened
room all your commit messages
are replaced with profanity.
—Paul Reinheimer
18.
19.
20. The World is Flat
Actually it’s the opposite…
The World is Spiky.
21. If someone tells you that you are one
in a billion, there are a thousand
people just like you in China
—Ancient Chinese Proverb
Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)
24. Chinese are scary
feeling of awe
harsh conditions
rain-drenched, sun stroke
15 hours a day tai-chi
no time for pee breaks
outsourcing (New York Times,
December 9, 2005)
25. The first person whose job needs to
be outsource is the manager that
made the outsourcing decision in the
first place. Someone in India can
make that same decision at a fraction
of the price
—Ancient Chinese Proverb
Zhuangzi (4th century BC)
26. 4-Hour WorkWeek
Add graphic for arbitrage
Add quote about what an
ahole timothy ferriss is
30. it’s not about being good enough
find out how manyThe people in the summer games are really good at what they do (all 2008 of
performers in the games
them)
the only thing that separates you from them is you
42. Make the slide and builds
First consider something like
painting a fence: everything is
partionable (man-month).
…add a constant time for
training.
…add communication cost:
n(n-1)/2.
Compare to the unpartionable
(single man)
Adding people to a late project
makes it later!
partionable
+training
+communication
unpartionable