So, it appears that I need to add “Organizational Network Analysis” to my description as well. Thank you Josh Letourneau of Knight Bishop for the suggestion!
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One lesson I learned (not from anything specifically said, purely a deduction) from this excellent Mixergy interview with Brian Crane of LuckyGunner.com is to NOT weave small thoughts into the big picture, but to instead let them be small thoughts. Apparently LuckyGunner.com succeeds by chasing the long tail. Therefore I am going to keep the “How To Fix” and “Code Sample” series, but keep the meta blogging about business and network theory to a minimum.
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So far 2010 has been the year of gradual improvements in life, health and productivity. I made most of these changes based on what I learned in Brain Rules. Here is a snapshot of my changes so far:
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Several months ago I finished reading Brain Rules by John Medina and I’ve been raving about it ever since. Medina is a noted brain researcher and the book contains the 12 things he wishes the lay public knew.
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came across some of Richard Florida’s work online yesterday (Florida is the author of “The Creative Class” and the creator of the notion that creative people should self-segregate) and I began wondering: why do Ivy League institutions produce so few creative people? Continue reading “Is an Ivy League education pointless for creative people?” »
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After reading this article on the phenomenon of Farmville I revised my notions of wealth. I previously categorized wealth in the following two ways:
- Owning Money – how much money do you have in the bank account, or can be converted to cash quickly. Most people regard money wealth as the only wealth
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I read the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Kennedy (JFK and Ted’s father) and his business life fascinated me. Particularly I was struck by the following passage (describing his time in the stock market in the Great Crash) as :
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Over the years I have met many alumni of the Turner Empire (CNN/Turner Broadcasting/Turner Enterprises/WCW/TBS/Braves/Hawks, etc) and most of them have told me some version of the following story.
[Setup - In the early days of CNN and Turner Broadcasting Ted Turner would prowl his office building and drop in unannounced into random meetings. One day he walked into a meeting where people were planning a cross-channel week-long special on dinosaurs] Continue reading “The Turner Rule in Marketing and Branding” »
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Via some Twitter link I can no longer find, I stumbled across these two posts.
- Nootropics: their effects, their risks, and where to get them – I think I’ll be picking up some Thiamine and sticking with that, as the others seem a bit scary. It is a fascinating bit of research though. Nootropics are “Smart Drugs”
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While pondering installing Visual Studio 2010, as well as thinking how all software is moving to a subscription basis, I had the thought – why not do two predictable releases a year? The first release, say in January, would be whatever new features were in place by that date. The second release, say in July, would be a pure performance and usability release, as the development team would spend half the year optimizing and tweaking the code, as well as fixing all bugs. Any new “Features” would have at least six months to cook in the minds of the developers and would be implemented on a much stronger code base. Continue reading “Thoughts on predictable software scheduling” »
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