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Essays from September 2006

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  1. The Buzzword-maisters and the bad manager

    Reading a very “true” post in 37signals about our industry’s preference and dependency on buzzwords I came to think of my own experience with buzzword-maisters and their terrible destruction path. It seems to me that in our industry managers think they are smart but are very often tricked into choosing a particular technology/product just because …

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