Velocity New York 2014
2014-09-15..2014-09-17
New York, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Zen and the Pain of Long-Distance Backpacking | Tara Calihman | 05m |
1200+ miles logged, 100+ nights on trail across six states, and practical lessons: choose route by region and available time, expect complex resupply and hitch… | ||
| Why Data Has Always Been Big | Kyle Erf | 05m |
Claims that information overload is modern give way to concrete continuity: Mesopotamian clay tablets commodify records, Alexandria acquires books by seizing… | ||
| What the NFL has taught me about DevOps | Dave Cliffe | 05m |
Argues that studying football fundamentals yields concrete Ops gains by applying three practices: rehearsal via playbooks and drills, strict role definitions… | ||
| What I Did On My Summer Vacation…And Why | Dave Langlais | 05m |
Works on marketing and go‑to‑market for HP AppPulse Mobile, building landing pages, screenshots and a short promo video while collaborating directly with R&D… | ||
| Unicorns and The Language of Otherness | Aneel Lakhani | 05m |
Argues that calling companies unicorns excuses not learning, because labeling others as different creates psychological debt that must be refactored. Uses the… | ||
| The Multi-Faceted Roles of the Art of Repair | Vincent Lai | 05m |
Runs the Fixers Collective and documents dozens of fixing sessions where people repair electronics with soldering irons and basic hand tools, turning repair… | ||
| Showing Girls How to Break the Tech Gender Stereotypes | Pooja Chandrashekar | 05m |
A national nonprofit called Project CS Girls runs a national competition launched last summer that asks middle school teams to build code or prototypes solving… | ||
| The New Normal... | Kathryn Finney | 05m |
Argues that structural barriers — cultural, technological and historical — keep Black and urban women out of tech and that the practical fix is an accelerator… | ||
| Quality Captioning as Universal Access... | Svetlana Kouznetsova | 07m |
Claims that captioning raises watch rates from 66% to 91% viewership, that about 50 million US (≈20%) and 700 million worldwide have hearing loss, and that… | ||
| Getting Past Hello… How to Talk to Anyone | Bethany Marzewski | 05m |
Three concrete tactics for actually starting rich conversations: ask an oddball prompt like “murder weapon of choice” to force storytelling instead of scripted… | ||
| Devops and Dr Deming’s 14 Points | John Willis | 05m |
Fast, slide‑by‑slide mapping of Edward Deming's out of crisis 14 points onto DevOps practices with specific examples: cease dependency on inspection mapped to… | ||
| Demo This! | Tami Reiss | 05m |
Shows how to structure demos around concrete benefits not features and how to survive live glitches by using clickable mockups or prototypes instead of… | ||
| Commanders, Communication, Context, and Convoys | H. "Waldo" Grunenwald | 05m |
Twelve concrete leadership lessons come from Marine Corps practice: priorities are ordered so you do the work then take care of people, reward with gratitude… | ||
| Applications that Test Themselves with CatJS | Arik Lewin | 05m |
CatJS is an open source framework that makes apps self-testing by having the developer embed JavaScript snippets so the app can fill forms and click buttons; a… | ||
| A Tweet Through The Ages | Rakesh Chaudhary | 05m |
At 40 Mbps transmission speed the bottleneck is typing plus mobile latency so a modern tweet takes about 21 seconds end to end; a dumb‑phone SMS via a numeric… | ||
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