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Sorting with Sound

By ⋅ August 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

via Geek.com – yes, I subscribe to stuff like this in my RSS reader … I thought this was interesting on two levels … The Engineering student within appreciates the differences in sorting techniques (although I think I could speed up that bubble sort …) I also think these videos provide a simple illustration of [...]

Art, with some elements of Inspiration
Managing Change: Inspiration, Art, Science, and Execution

By ⋅ March 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Often, when trying to figure out how to “make things happen”, your focus switches between multiple targets. What am I doing? Why am I doing this? And How can I get the others to understand what I am doing? Real change happens along a continuum that stretches from The Big Idea to Real Results, and [...]

Art, with some elements of Inspiration
Frustrating Paradox: Simple and Difficult

By ⋅ September 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I think this is one of those fundamental concepts that, once it is pointed out to me, become self-evident and obvious (ie. why didn’t I think of that). I’m curious if other people agree … When something is simple to describe, it is difficult to create. When something is difficult to describe, it is simple [...]

Training and Learning: A Different POV

By ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The topic was training users for an upcoming project rollout, and the debate (as always) roamed back and forth between “traditional” (classroom training, scripts & workbooks) versus “experiential”, pairing existing users with their counterparts (who are new to the system), walking through the basics (screen navigation, terminology, and step-by-step instructions for the most common required [...]

Science, with some elements of Art
CIO Mag – Decision Evolution

By ⋅ October 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

A couple of different riffs on this article by Davenport. A lot easier said than done – it’s still kind of difficult to design systems that truly are “intelligent”, capable of making “decisions”. There is still a lot of art, insight, etc. that is captured by the way the solution is architected / designed – [...]

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