Some months ago, Time magazine published an article called Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business, about how really productive meetings need someone in them to stop too much consensus too early. The article starts
Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you can’t [...]
Since I posted anything, I mean. Which doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing things, just that I’ve spent more time thinking and doing and talking than writing and describing.
The garden is looking better after the relative neglect of the past couple of years, although there’s lots more to do, as always (the weeds have more [...]
Australians learned so much from the Ash Wednesday bushfires (I was living in Melbourne at the time and still visit as often as I can); there was a sense that although everyone knew bushfires are capricious and dangerous, that there were things to do to mitigate them. That all changed this week.
The combination of years [...]
Now is a good time to update my resume (cv), and I’m having a little difficulty in figuring out the best way to present it. The classic “say what you did for the employer” tends to assume that your involvement in projects is bounded by your employment, but that’s not always the case. For example, [...]
As has been widely reported, Sun Microsystems laid off a number of people on Thursday. That number included most of my project team and me, since the project I was managing was cancelled.
Over the nearly four years I was at Sun I learned a lot, contributed what I could, and had fun working with [...]
We spent Christmas and a few days either side in Sakatchewan, land of -27 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driving along Highway 1 you could see the stubble of plants sticking out of the slim white covering, giving the horizon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow [...]
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