My Tweets

  • 90% of the tweets I receive have a link to a web site someone "discovered". Am I really supposed to open them all#metatweet 1 week ago
  • Back from Develop2010. Did my talk today. Very well received by people attending. I was very pleased. Magic went very well. #develop2010 2 weeks ago
  • @maryforrest Even this statement of not hurting others to do good is "arbitrary". Right and wrong is culture dependent. #crossculture 2 weeks ago
  • Too many people now know I am doing magic to illustrate my topic tomorrow at my talk at 14.45 room 7. Can't give-up now... #develop2010 2 weeks ago
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Where on earth will we outsource off-shore?

As we all know, outsourcing off-shore is a complex decision to make for a company. The reasons for doing so are generally cost saving of course, but also the hope to get the development happen faster due to a bigger and more readily available team.

When you have at last made the decision to do it, comes [...]

Cross-cultural self stereotypes

Cross-cultural communication is a challenge for everyone! As Gert Jan Hofstede puts it in Exploring Culture, “Cross-cultural misunderstanding is a much under-estimated cause of trouble.” I am currently working a lot on this question for different reasons and I am very attentive to every cross-cultural trouble I am in front of. Working in London UK is [...]

Off-shore development: why can’t “they” get it?

What is culture and what does it mean to be a foreigner? Don’t worry; I will not give a detailed answer to these two questions; that would need 100s of pages to do so. These 2 questions, I had to ask them to myself when I married a foreigner and when I moved to live in [...]