http://blog.unreasonable.com engineering is a way of life Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:50:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://blog.unreasonable.com/samuel-becker-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:50:35 +0000 http://blog.unreasonable.com/?p=557#comment-5 Did you know your grandfather was 14 when he had to quit school to help support the family? My father also was supposed to quit at 14. But he loved school so much (he was skipped 3 semesters in elementary school so that he was already in high school when he turned 14) that he begged his father to let him stay in school. They agreed to a compromise: he could continue in school if we went to work after school. He became a messenger boy. He succeeded in winning a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania where he went for about a year. Then he nearly died of double pneumonia (probably the 1918 influenza epidemic) and lost his scholarship.

]]> http://blog.unreasonable.com/talk-to-users/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:56:21 +0000 http://blog.unreasonable.com/?p=377#comment-4 Absolutely. And often, close listening, watching, and thinking yields a solution to a problem the user had assumed was inherent and hadn’t thought to mention. The happy that evokes in them stays with you.

]]> http://blog.unreasonable.com/talk-to-users/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 04:54:52 +0000 http://blog.unreasonable.com/?p=377#comment-3 Talk to the user, but remember he doesn’t speak truth, he expresses symptoms, and you must find the disease. Scarily, that’s true of more than just users…

]]> http://blog.unreasonable.com/strange-faces/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:45:01 +0000 http://blog.unreasonable.com/?p=42#comment-2 It declares that the author is a Three Star Programmer: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreeStarProgrammer

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