2011
5 posts
April
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Eulogy
for my father He’d have missed some of these latest days our family re-joined old stories re-told but told longer this time as if they grew like rings on trees every year. And in…
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War machines.
It’s not worth framing enemies in business. Because if you gear a workforce up for fighting a foe you get a war mentality which, like a robot in a sci-fi narrative, eventually…
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Support systems
I tend to work from the supposition that ideas need support systems similar to how people need support systems. Trite? Okay, but I’m comfortable with expressing tritely. Mainly…
June
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Bad advice blues
It’s not a good idea to take advice from people who need you to fail in order for them to succeed. e.g. The real estate developer looking to expand might forecast dropping prices…
November
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Dreams, discernment, and Google Reader
There’s been some interesting critical discussions of some design and product changes within Google Reader recently and I’ve kind of stayed out of it since I’m heads down on making…