” … we may then define intellect in general as the power of good response from the point of view of truth or fact.” – Thorndike, 1921 Edward Tufte impresses me. His books on visual data show him as possessing in copious amounts that very rare commodity – truly original thoughts . So, when he tweeted…
There has been far more heat than light surrounding the current controversy over whether a transgender (male to female) fighter should be allowed to compete in mixed martial arts in the women’s division. This article on The Verge said that opponents of Ms. Fox competition “are not supported by the current science”, citing the fact…
More interesting to me than the spate of articles on the decision of Yahoo to eliminate the option of working from home has been the comments on these articles. I should have followed the advice I give my children, “Never read the bottom half of the internet.” Too late – and I will never get…
I’m not much for reading management blogs. Most of them are just a collection of worn-out cliches, but the fifth of Cristina’s Five Things You Wish You Could Say to Employees, really caught my eye. 5. Your Work Is Sloppy! OK, don’t use the “s” word, it has all sorts of negative baggage. Employees who have this…
When I was an undergraduate, I argued with my professor about the management theory that said it was not necessary to understand the business to be an effective manager but only to understand management. The example he gave (and that I never accepted) was of a carriage in the park. The driver of the carriage…
Apparently, I skipped from #7 to #9, so here are two more things I have learned in 55 years bringing me up to 13. #8 Kindness is never wasted Over the years, I have donated a lot of money, anonymously, to various causes. In more cases than I want to admit, I have seen signs…
It’s been a good day. I had to drag myself away from PHPStorms to write this blog. I used phpMyAdmin to create the tables I needed, then wrote a few scripts in PHP to connect , insert records and execute queries. I used Dreamweaver and Textwrangler for the HTML. In a day or so, I’ll…
This is number 12 of 55 things I have learned in almost 55 years, back by (believe it or not) popular demand. You can find #11, just accept that you can’t do everything, right here. I’ve had a fair bit of success lately, as well as in my life overall – made some money, published…
When our Kickstarter campaign first started, I questioned the impact of social media. Despite being tweeted out by my darling daughter #3, who had over 170,000 followers on twitter, equal numbers of backers came from direct links (that is, people I had emailed directly) and twitter. By the end of the campaign, we had 255…
This is number 11 of 55 things I have learned in almost 55 years. You can find number 10 here , ten days ago, and that brings me to number 11. “Just accept that you can’t always do everything.” I’m very bad at taking this advice, as anyone who has ever met me can…