February 2012
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“Luck is the residue of design.”
– Branch Rickey
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My Outlook Divorce & Return to Paper
Perhaps it was the start of a new year or more likely the onslaught of work that hit me the day I returned from holiday, but I had an epiphany. I was being far too reactive. Why was that? I have a highly efficient process that I’ve honed after living in Microsoft Outlook for over a decade. I’m obsessive about my calendar (managed in 15 minute increments and with blocks for work and travel time) as...
January 2012
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“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.”
– Cicero
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'Connie' spy plane leaves Camarillo Airport for... →
Photo by Chuck Kirman from the Ventura County Star article.
Sorry to see her go.
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“A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.”
– General George S. Patton
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“Arrive without travelling,
See all without looking,
Do all without doing.”
– George Harrison
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December 2011
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“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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November 2011
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“How the world we perceive works depends on how we think; the world we perceive...”
– H. Thomas Johnson
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“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation →
Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems—climbing the hill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation—like city planners painting bicycle lanes on the streets as a gesture toward solving our energy...
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“It was his conceit that if you couldn’t write, you couldn’t think;...”
– Neal Freeman on William F. Buckley
October 2011
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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September 2011
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
– Seneca
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Setting Sparkline Axes in Excel 2011
In the course of doing some data modeling this morning, I found myself confused by the default behavior of sparklines in Excel 2011.
As these small charts are useful in making comparisons, it didn’t makes sense that the axes were different for each sparkline summarizing individual rows in a range.
In the above example, the first data point is the same in both rows and should be scale...
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
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The Evolution of the Web →
Great interactive visualization.
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August 2011
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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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E.T. on Resume Design →
The resume is a document, not a design statement. The design should not attract attention; the design of a resume should be straightforward and harmless. That is the best that resume design can do: straightforward and harmless.
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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University... →
But even if you can’t plan, you can prepare. A great batter doesn’t know when the high-hanging curve ball is going to come, but he knows it will. And he can prepare for what he will do when he gets it.
Too often people think about intuition as the same as relying on luck or faith. At least as I see it, nothing could be further from the truth. Intuition can tell you that of the doors...
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“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.”
– Epictetus
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Doculabs: SharePoint vs. Documentum as the Pharma... →
What should you do if you’re a pharma at this inflection point? We recommend the following:
1) At a minimum, consider a two-platform consolidation strategy. Over the next few years this approach would bring you to SharePoint for management of uncontrolled documents, a single application suite for management of controlled documents (probably CSC FirsDoc), and a single platform for...
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