With all of the recent political news stories I thought it would be useful to filter out the wheat from the chaff, and what better way to do that than by introducing new tags to refine the semantics of the news? Surely these are as important as H1, Strong and EM tags for news stories.
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People like to use the Five Whys of Toyota to diagnose problems (in deductive fashion). I use the 5 Whats to explain what I do for a living, Stronico, and my music. Which version you get depends on what I think your subject matter expertise happens to be. For my consulting company the 5 Whats are:
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Earlier today I began writing a blog post about the artisan style of entrepreneurship and I began wondering: what is the right amount of meta thinking to do in a given day? Stronico has yet to emerge from beta and I have not earned a reputation as a visionary (yet). Who really cares what I think about a given meta topic? By looking at my web stats and links to the site it does seem that no one cares about my meta thoughts but they do love the posts on QuickBooks and how to solve Silverlight problems.
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I wrote about my desire to form a secret society several months ago and so far have found no suitable web application to help me do that. IMind seems to be the closest complete solution but it seems too jumbled to accomplish much (I’m judging them purely from their website, I have not tried the product.) Recently I came across BrainTrustHQ.com and I think it supply the collaboration tools needed for a workable secret society. I’ve signed up for their free version and I’ll let everyone know how it goes.
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My new commandment: Never complain about anything. Ever. If you feel the need to complain to pressure someone else to make something happen, then be honest and call it manipulation.
I realized this while at a client meeting; we were talking about problems with a botched sales program and the staff had a litany of complaints about the program (ed. note: it was created by a separate vendor years ago, and the fault lies with the now-departed project manager who designed something inappropriate. It does a masterful job of integrating legacy systems from different vendors, languages, platforms, a mainframe and Europeans are involved somehow, but the user interface is wanting. But I digress…). Then I remembered hearing the same litany of complaints a year ago. Unlike last year, I offered suggestions on how to make small improvements to the program. Everyone proceeded to ignore me and continued complaining. At the end of the meeting everyone felt a lot better once they had talked about their problems. No one made any plans to actually fix the problems. Continue reading “Why you should never complain about anything – with anecdotal proof!” »
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I just finished reading L.A. Noir by John Buntin, a history of the Los Angeles Police Department, and was struck by the similarity of Stalin’s reaction to the German invasion of 1941 and the Police Chief Thomas Parker’s reaction to Watts riots in the 1960s.
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