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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 [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Science
Search as the Killer KM App, and Good Writers will Rule the World

By ⋅ November 5, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve been involved in a series of projects where good ol’ Knowledge Management (KM), that buzzword from the 90′s, is wandering it’s way back into our conscious thought. Did scope creep blow the project schedule? No, it was the death-march through the Requirements Phase Since we’re automating processes that were never documented, we have to [...]

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