Recently I noticed that my colleague, Steve Todd, has adopted a consistent signature to his blog posts. This seems like a good idea, especially as one who’s been “syndicated” elsewhere without my approval. While he’s a TypePad guy, I favor WordPress. Fortunately, WordPress has rich plugin ecosystem, and there are already plugins that support automated [...]
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This year blogging
December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Site
Not including this post, I posted 50 blogs this year, which received 67 comments. Clearly, I’m not prolific (!), but I’m happy to see more comments than posts, and I’m content with roughly a post-a-week average for 2008. (For those with a young, active families and with jobs that aren’t centrally about blogging, I’d love [...]
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Outliers
December 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Non-fiction, Open source, Random, Site
Since reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell‘s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself. As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; [...]
Tags:deliberate practice·Gladwell·Hofstede·legacy·opportunity·outlier·Outliers·PDI·success·work
After Christmas "sale"
December 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Life, Site
Well, actually it’s a give away (as in free). Recently I took my family to a “Deacon Dave’s” to see his Christmas light spectacular. (One of his assistants said the power line to serve draws 400 amps!) I took several pictures without flash just after dark, trying to capture the effect of all of the [...]
Annual blog review
January 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Life, Site
While I’ve never been a prolific blogger, I managed to find time to post at least once every month last year. However, total posts this year (64) were down from 2005 (74). I believe this was due to two primary factors: having a family with two kids now and having a high, sustained workload as a [...]
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