Steven P. Jobs, leader, visionary, and chairman of Apple Inc., died Wednesday at the age of 56. We will all miss his influence on the world. This strikes particularly close to me, having known him, and worked in close proximity at NeXT Computer. His innovation, drive for excellence, and uncompromising belief in building something better [...]
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Everyone should take a good read of Robert Reich’s September 1 article. I absolutely love this quote. If only everyone understood this, I think we’d see a lot less fluctuation in the market and the economy. But alas, his point: The stock market has as much to do with the real economy as the weather [...]
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Snagged from 43folders and totally worth the read: If we embrace the fact that no one can or should ever care about the health of our passions as much as we do, the practical decisions that help ensure Our Good Thing stays alive can become as “simple” as a handful of proven patterns—work hard, stay [...]
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Can cell phones cause brain cancer? It’s been the focus of discussions, arguments, studies and bloggers for decades now. The Interphone study, launched 10 years ago and studying 10,000 participants spread across 13 different countries, sought to answer that question.
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Have you discovered Evernote yet? I’ve become very impressed with this simple catch-all for ideas, notes, events, even your favorite wine. Essentially, it can capture just about any content, including web pages, PDF files, documents, text clippings, photos, and email messages. The real power of Evernote is, at least for me, twofold: It’s cross platform, [...]
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Want to live to a happy old age? And pick up a few tips on how to make better presentations while you’re doing it? This is a great post from Presentation Zen that gives us a few tips on both (and thanks to the embedded TEDx videocast). Take a look, it’s worth the 20 minutes [...]
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The figure we most often hear is 10% unemployment. But that’s not the whole truth — it’s a politically spun figure that minimizes the real story. According to BBC America, we might actually be looking at unemployment closer to 17% if factoring in the “lost workforce,” or those people that have decided to drop out [...]
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“You cannot not communicate. Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because behaviour does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behaviour), it is not possible not to communicate.”—Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of Communication This, according to 52 Weeks of UX. Stated another way, “This is the first rule of UX. Everything a designer does [...]
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It always amazes me when people don’t care about important issues. I can understand that many people don’t know if climate change is something they can or can’t affect. But burying our heads in the sand won’t make an issue go away. Investigate further or, if you aren’t willing to, then let the experts decide. [...]
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According to the research firm TNS and its Personal Risk Assessment and Risk Literacy Survey, almost half (about 46%) of consumers can’t come up with $2,000 in emergency funds on a month’s notice. Even those making between $100K to $149K, a quarter responded that they couldn’t raise the funds either. Given that the survey asked [...]
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I tap the screen on my phone, and tell it “buy cream cheese at the market.” The next day, when I walk into the market, my phone pings and reminds me to pick up some cream cheese. It knows this because the last time I was near the market, I tagged the location. My phone [...]
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So, how many of you took the last few week’s news about better unemployment figures to heart? How many of you would be disappointed to hear its just another failure of our media to report the real state of the nation? How many would be dismayed that even our President is promulgating entirely misleading figures [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
