The Paint Branch High School is special. Years ago they decided that their annual science fair shouldn’t just be a checkoff on a list and started redesigning their event. They looked at why no one came and decided to move it from the middle of the day to the evening to make it easier forRead… Read more »
Last week I read 2nd Machine Age, which pointed out thatMoore’s Law, that computing power per cost doubles approximately every 18 months and has been chugging along for 60 years, is not a law, but the sum of thousands of heroic breakthroughs, a lot of people doing good work. Every time some theoretically imposed boundaryRead… Read more »
The story goes that the inventor of chess showed it to the emperor, who was mightily impressed, and asked the inventor to name a suitable reward. The seemingly modest response was one grain of rice on the first square, then doubling the rice on each subsequent square. When it turned out that many grains ofRead… Read more »
I try to deal in real, tactical issues. Strategy becomes an explanation of what happened the last time. However, I have been working with a client who made a make or buy decision to purchase some business services. Maybe we were asking the wrong people, but what came back were all these offers to runRead… Read more »
Zeitgeist or The Spirit Of The Times, or temporary craziness, occurs in business, too. Over the past few years watching disintermediation of industry after industry has not only terminated scores of businesses, but also dramatically changed the business processes of the survivors. There are still top down organizations trying to hold off new customer-driven markets,Read… Read more »
A site owner told me he was taking down his “Wall of Shame” or leaderboard, showing the top contributors to his site. It was an administrative headache as users changed their posting patterns. He was most upset about power users who had been thrown off the site, but their cumulative contribution continued to show. DaveRead… Read more »
Not Ron, but Henry/Frank/Danny/Jamie Reagan of Blue Bloods, a four-year series on CBS. How many people follow Blue Bloods? In a time of changing mores, Blue Bloods is an examination of how to live, how to act, where to focus. There are four male protagonists. They are all at different levels in the family business,Read… Read more »
I was sitting in a board meeting when the subject of sponsors came up. It has come up in several organizations, actually. Usually goes around the table and then doesn’t go anywhere. When all is said and done a lot more is said than done. The refrain is we’re outa money, they’ve got money. Let’sRead… Read more »
In the last 90 days I’ve seen more than ten promising organizations shut their doors. They just didn’t see a way to continue. A couple blamed a lack of monetization strategy. They couldn’t find a get rich quick scheme. Several others said they had key contracts winding down. I suspect the other two bored themselvesRead… Read more »
I admire artists and always wanted to draw. I’ve bought books about different sides of the brain, kits for drawing, cartooning, sketching, and a continuing stream of implements. Yesterday we went to Ed’s 2 hour class So You Think You Can’t Draw at Plaza Art and got slung into the mainstream. I’ve gone to manyRead… Read more »