Top 10 Technical Confessions of 2010


top10Now that’s it’s late December I’m reading, and interested in, all of the top 10’s.  We have a phenomenal amount of technology and data points at our fingertips.   However, this is my top 10.  Nothing scientific.  Just thoughts as I think about the last year.  So here it goes:

Confession:

  1. I really like my Windows 7 Phone.  I don’t get why other folks blew it off
  2. I hate printers.  For crying out loud.  It’s 2010, can you not get paper to feed correctly or for that matter get the drivers to work?
  3. I don’t hate Apple.  I hate Steve Jobs.  You with me Adobe?
  4. When you are a software guy, there is no substitute for good infrastructure guys.
  5. I get ‘the cloud’.  While you are trying to understand it, I’m trying to figure out how to make money off of it.
  6. Lawyers don’t get open source.
  7. I think Kinect and the iPad are the two most significant gadgets in 2010. 
  8. A good technology team can add a few million to the value of your business.  A great one can exponentially add multiples.
  9. All great teams get arrogant.  Your challenge is to manage the intensity of it.
  10. Great technologist live everywhere.  Develop a team and a methodology that utilizes the best of the best.  The best are all around us.

Anything to add?