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Apr 09

Too many meetings?

Are you making stuff, or only meeting to talk about making stuff?

Mychael Nygard analyzes the probability that a critical meeting with 3 people will be deferred till next week in Can you make that meeting?

Turns out that if they’re each 75% utilized, then there’s only a 15% chance they can schedule a one hour meeting this week.

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Jan 09

Technology Adoption Lifecycle

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Wiki on the Technology Adoption Lifecycle in terms of farm technology:

  • innovators – had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-oriented
  • early adopters – younger, more educated, tended to be community leaders
  • early majority – more conservative but open to new ideas, active in community and influence to neighbours
  • late majority – older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active
  • laggards – very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated

Where are you on this scale? Your company?

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19
May 08

Warm Sunny Day

Now that we are reliably having warm days, I find We The Robots strip “Warm Sunny Day” to be quite fitting for those of us stuck in an office. At least I have a very nice big window for when I can’t get out to work on the garden.

While I’m talking about weather, I’ve discovered that the National Weather Service has a hourly forecast page. Pretty pictures and useful info too!



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Mar 08

Data without Purpose is Noise

37 Signals suggests you question your work and always focus on adding value:

  1. Why are we doing this?
  2. What problem are we solving?
  3. Is this actually useful?
  4. Are we adding value?
  5. Will this change behavior?
  6. Is there an easier way?
  7. What’s the opportunity cost?
  8. Is it really worth it?

More on this here.