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	<description>Embracing Change</description>
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		<title>Fighting Fires instead of Owning the Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Phillips: Why is fighting fires more valuable than avoiding fires?
&#8220;For some reason we believe that sweeping in and fixing a problem has more drama, and gains more attention, than doing the work to predict and avoid problems.&#8221;
I think the problem is also a blame game. If we acknowledged that there were ways we could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/fighting-fires-instead-of-owning-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>My First iPhone App: Walk or Bus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now Available in the iTunes App Store!!  I&#8217;m very excited about this! Never created an iPhone App before, and this was a great experience. Here&#8217;s a bit about the new app. If you try it out, please do let me know how it goes!
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Do you ever wonder whether you&#8217;d be better off walking instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/my-first-iphone-app-walk-or-bus/</link>
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		<title>The opposite of “open” is “theirs”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joho the Blog is talking about Net Neutrality in The opposite of “open” is “theirs”, but the same could be said for any number of domains.

The opposite of public domain is their domain
The opposite of open source software is their software
The opposite of open standards is their standards
The opposite of open file formats is their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/the-opposite-of-%e2%80%9copen%e2%80%9d-is-%e2%80%9ctheirs%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;d like that feature, and that one, and that one&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marco considers input from his users but ultimately says:
&#8220;If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features that matter. Like Microsoft Word. Or Firefox.
By listening too much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/id-like-that-feature-and-that-one-and-that-one/</link>
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		<title>Decisiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herding Cats Quote of the Day:
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
—Lido Anthony (Lee) Iacocca
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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/decisiveness/</link>
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		<title>Make your own Font</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YourFont let&#8217;s you make a font from your handwriting. Cool.

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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/make-your-own-font/</link>
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		<title>Techies don&#8217;t understand the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[stevenf:
&#8220;So while [techies] trump up our skills at designing “easy to use” interfaces for our applications, millions of people are still trying to figure out how to get our beautifully designed application out of its zip file or disk image.  Or where in fact the Downloads folder is. Or what, exactly, a folder is. [...] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/techies-dont-understand-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Ketchup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UseKetchup.com looks like an interesting way to keep and track meeting notes. Love the simplicity of it. More about it here.
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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/ketchup/</link>
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		<title>Free From Preferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[mrgan:
&#8220;A detail from the iPad keynote: Steve demoes the Mail application and he puts it in horizontal mode. Oh, look, an Inbox list pops in. Neat.

And I think, hmmm I wonder if you can resize that splitter, making the source list wider. Its a tiny target, so it would be hard to grab…
And then I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/free-from-preferences/</link>
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		<title>First reaction to Apple&#8217;s iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, it’s only been a few hours after the iPad announcement. Here’s what I’ll say as a first reaction:
No camera? How will we do video chat?
Good entry price point of $499, but I’m irritated that I can’t use my $30/month iPhone internet on this thing. You want me to pay for internet per device? Seriously? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/first-reaction-to-apples-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Are you testing or checking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vikas Hazrati posts an interesting thought about testing vs. checking at InfoQ:
&#8220;Checking is something that we do with the motivation of confirming existing beliefs. [...] Testing is something that we do with the motivation of finding new information.&#8221;
So when you &#8220;test&#8221; your software, are you really testing? Or are you just checking?
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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/are-you-testing-or-checking/</link>
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		<title>If you use RSS, you won&#8217;t care that I updated my theme.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But if you are viewing this as, you know, an actual web page, then you probably noticed that I updated the theme to my blog.
Opinions and criticism welcome. Theme design by WPShoppe and it&#8217;s called Cleanr. Probably a little too clean, but I like it.
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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/if-you-use-rss-you-wont-care-that-i-updated-my-theme/</link>
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		<title>Dragon Dictation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An amazing app for your iPhone: Dragon Dictation. Go check it out. It does just what you think it does: listen to you talk, and translate that to type. Click a button and you can send it as an email. As Daring Fireball notes: &#8220;it’s both faster and more accurate than I imagined possible.&#8221;
I&#8217;m an Apple fanboy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/dragon-dictation/</link>
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		<title>Google Nexus One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been plenty of articles written about Google&#8217;s Nexus One. This offhanded comment from the Macalope pretty much sums up my feelings:
&#8220;The Nexus One seems like a nice enough phone, but it’s nothing revolutionary (it’s got a trackball, for God’s sake). Everyone is still operating inside the same box that Apple defined three years ago.&#8221;
On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/google-nexus-one/</link>
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		<title>Project Management Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading Answers has a thoughtful article on Project Trends Every PM Should be Aware Of. My favorite bit:
&#8220;The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Your PM Tools and Approaches?
In the last 10 years many changes have occurred in the world of managing IT projects, yet we still see the same tools and approaches being employed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/project-management-trends/</link>
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		<title>How to Measure Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Geographic ran an interesting little tidbit about health care, and while I understand that health care as a whole is messy, complicated, and not working the way we all want it to, they do have a good way of narrowing it down to the basics: the annual costs of care (a nice easy number) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/how-to-measure-health-care/</link>
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		<title>We Trust You </title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt from SvN on control via trust:
A lot of companies seek to control employees. They have handbooks and policies. They monitor emails. They make rules about what’s allowed and what’s forbidden. [...]
Imagine an employee handbook that just said: “We trust you. Be mischievous.”
This makes a lot of sense to me. If the company trusts you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/we-trust-you/</link>
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		<title>Bad Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth relates a story about where good ideas come from:
&#8220;Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a month or two to come up with one and I seem to have more than that. I asked him how many bad ideas he has every month. He paused and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/bad-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Automatic Captioning and Translating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another one of those things that falls into the I-Don&#8217;t-Think-We-Appreciate-The-Importance-Of-This category&#8230;  Google&#8217;s Automatic Captioning in YouTube:
&#8220;In addition to expanded accessibility for those with hearing disabilities, the combination of captions withmachine translation expands YouTube accessibility across the globe. If a caption track is available, it can be translated automatically in any of the 51 currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/automatic-captioning-and-translating/</link>
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		<title>Standford on Multitasking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows:
&#8220;You might think a lot gets done when you multitask, but a study conducted by Stanford researchers Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass and Anthony Wagner says it isn&#8217;t so.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/standford-on-multitasking/</link>
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