Today Soaking in Samsara has a terrific post on being a "leader".  After reading through her post, I could not agree more, especially with #2

  "Once you have hired those great people, for goodness sake, let them do their jobs"

Finding great people is hard, very hard, but once you do let them be great.  All too often I have seen managers try to get their employees to replicate their actions and ideas. I've always found that if you can set a clear vision and help construct a path great people will surprise you in execution.  Yes there will be times when you need to nudge here and give constructive feedback, but there will also be times when you're blown away and learn quite a bit yourself.  

In the end everyone wants a bit of self-realization, great people typically demand it, it's in everyone’s best interest to facilitate it...

I've always thought the ways we've tried to deal with visualizing, utilizing and interacting with large datasets leaves a lot to be desired.  When it is simply aggregate rollup data things are manageable but when it's much more attribute and state driven or dare I say real-time things start to falter.  
The team over at oblong is on the right path, while their demo applications might not show the full capacity of what a killer app could do the new interaction metaphor is huge.

If you haven't already take a look…

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

oblong

 

Hello and welcome to the lab45 blog.  For this entry I'm simply going to lay out what types of things might appear here in the future.  

Items of interest include:

Work stuff

    * Large data set exploration and intelligent appends/external correlations
    * Parallel computing
    * Ubiquitous computing (web 3.0)
    * Human computer interaction
    * Privacy

Personal stuff

    * Fitness (kinda fun when you add dataset exploration to it)
    * Finance
    * Politics
    * Bay area (SF Specifically) oddities, nightlife and eats