ISSurvivor.com
- Category: Software Development
- Posted On: 9/5/2006
- Views: 4,871
A celebrity's dwindling career can often be saved, if only for a moment, through the quote "bad publicity is still publicity." Well, I signed up for ISSurvivor.com's newsletter and was thoroughly disappointed. First of all, the newsletter I got is right there on the home page. Yup, redundancy in the name of convenience with the added benefit of a new contact and a saved e-mail address. I was so sorely bummed by the lack of "real" content that I felt the need to reply to the author...
My Reply to the ISSurvivor.com Newsletter
Article Source: "Leading in general" (2006-09-04)
Constructive Criticism
My thoughts on your most recent newsletter... I do not recall how or why I signed up, only that I came on good authority to the ISSurvivor.com website to add your newsletter to my "junk I'll read later" folder. I found myself somewhat excited when your newsletter arrived this evening, only to be disappointed by the 3rd paragraph when you stated, "And don't get me started about blacks, Jews and Asians." Perhaps my current enrollment in "Cultural Diversity" increased my sensitivity and triggered a reaction, but I found myself thinking, "well, every company executive elder of mine is from a different time period and this one just hasn't caught up with the millennium of globalization yet." Yes, ironically I found myself generalizing your article simply to create a false hope and continue reading. Like a determined hunter for the lion of all IS solutions, I hacked through the thorny underbrush of the article only to find myself at the end thinking, "well, we didn't get the 'big one', but it was a good hike." Perhaps managers these days need a solid course of the basics, followed by second and third helpings. But, if I knew managers who were "IS Surviving" on this advice, they would be voted off the island.
Attempting to write metaphorically as you do with a dash of entertainment, please take my reply as constructive criticism and nothing more than the ramblings of a shell-shocked senior developer in the trenches. I look forward to reading your next newsletter before clicking the infamous "unsubscribe".
*Use what you like (including my name and website), but please do not share the e-mail address! Heck, you can name your trash bin after me if it makes you feel better.
Hopelessly and (only during business hours) illiterately yours,
Eric Swanson
Senior Software Engineer
http://www.iseric.com/
- Category: Software Development
- Posted On: 9/5/2006
- Views: 4,871