So we’ve all been in that situation driving around block after block for a half hour and still haven’t found a place to park. This is usually the point, where you realize that you are going to have to park illegally or go crazy trying to cram your car into another spot it won’t fit. [...]
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Core Competence
Dorrian talks about a coffee shop’s core competence, but he is aiming pretty high hoping for a table that doesn’t jiggle.
I just want coffee in a cup that doesn’t leak.
The coffee shop owner obviously buys cups from a wholesaler, the decision on which cups to buy probably is based on how the cups look, [...]
Cicero’s Rules for Good Conversation
In a futile attempt to catch up on my ever growing pile of magazines, I came across a good article in the Economist about the art of conversation. Cicero wrote in 44BC the following rules, which all could still apply today and even to the latest form of blogging “conversations”:
Cicero’s Rules for Good Conversation
speak clearly
speak [...]
Instant Replay, Google and the BCS
Fuzziness is what makes the world interesting. We seem have too many demands for precision, too much black and white. The fuzziness and gray area gives us something to talk about, something interesting, points for debate.
Instant replays - why does every call have to be right? A referee missing or making the wrong call [...]
Finally using some one else’s blog software…
I’m a huge fan of letting other people do work for me, also known as not duplicating work. A co-worker of mine at CNET said my laziness was probably my greatest asset, meant as a compliment of course. Laziness was also one of Larry Wall’s three chief virtues of a programmer — hubris and [...]