February 22, 2011 · 11:17 am
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If you’ve been following along in this space you’ll know that we spent a little time in Hardware Hell the last week or so. Motherboards frying, backup drives breathing their last, laptop displays going dark like a theater marquee after a string of bad reviews.
As I was doing my best to repair this stuff and not electrocute myself by weeping into a live circuit, The Mrs. asked “how do you know all this stuff?” In my mind, it wasn’t so much how I knew it but how I was able to dive in and get to work without spending a lot of time thinking about it. The business thought? Continue reading →
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January 18, 2011 · 11:31 am
Today’s screed is about dumbing it down and how it can improve your business thinking as you grow dumb. I’m pretty sure you’re aware that I’m not an advocate for the willfully stupid among us. They might be spending too much time behind the wheel of the car in front of you to be reading this anyway. However, I do find myself trying to reduce things to their most basic elements a great deal of the time. It’s not that I don’t care about detail – sometimes there’s a lot of important stuff in there. But I find that the details tend to clutter up one’s mind when you’re trying to have a basic understanding of something – it’s like worrying about what color the room will be before you’ve figured out the square footage and the amount of paint needed so you can budget properly. Continue reading →
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December 20, 2010 · 12:50 pm
I don’t know if you watched the 60 minutes story last night on endless memory. You can see the first part of the story here and there’s a link to the second part on the player. In a nutshell, the story shows 5 folks – including a famous actress – who have complete recall of every moment of their lives since they were kids. You pick a date, they tell you what happened. A lot of people think it’s some kind of parlor trick but the research clearly demonstrates that it’s real. I thought it was fascinating and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Of course, as I was watching, I had a business thought which I’d like to share with you as well. Continue reading →
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