Writing

Brilliant cartoon about mental models

April 24, 2012

I love this! He’s managed to encapsulate an important (and oft-ignored) truth about design, in such a way that it will be accessible to everyone: http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/23/mental-model-diagrams-cartoon/…

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Who Makes Up for Ambiguity in Client Agreements?

May 29, 2010

Photo credit: CowCopTim When your idea of what the agreement was, and your client’s idea of what the agreement was, differ, how does that get…

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When You See Untapped Potential, by Definition You Have an Unpopular Idea (Don't Seek Approval)

May 10, 2010

These are from some notes I made while reading Blue Ocean Strategy. So, they have a bit of the feel of notes, but are interesting. Reading…

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A new business is a new system, Part III

May 9, 2010

Photo credit: TANAKA Juuyoh (????) To be successful a business needs to contain certain qualities. (In place of business, you could substitute any system you…

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A new business is a new system, Part II

May 9, 2010

Photo credit: Digital Sextant The important thing The important thing, is that the idea you have, of the business (or something else) you could create,…

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A new business is a new system, Part I

May 8, 2010

When you start thinking in systems terms, your thinking becomes kind of non-linear, and sometimes it’s hard to “just get to the point.” It’s like…

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BillABLE Hours Versus BILLED Hours

May 4, 2010

photo credit: Stefano Mazzone I have become poignantly aware that there is a difference between logging billed hours, and billable hours. I have been looking at how…

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Totally Inspiring Video by Barbara Marx Hubbard

April 25, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_4a_kglrn4

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