leveraging craftsman-quality ADD for competitive advantage
via neatoshop.com Need these for the office!
Results revealed that while people explicitly claimed to desire creative ideas, they actually associated creative ideas with negative words such as "vomit," "poison" and "agony. via sciencedaily.com Interesting article on what we think we want, versus what we actually want, when it comes to creativity.
If you are worrying about innovation, take heart. Only successful companies do. By contrast, unsuccessful companies either aren't around to do any worrying or are consumed with more pressing concerns, like meeting payroll or paying their bills. At the other end of the spectrum, venture-backed start-ups have lots of worries, but innovating isn't one of them - they actually worry more about not innovating, as in let's not waste our scarce resources reinventing wheels that others have already developed.But you are...
via wta.org crowdsourced hiking trails - i hope the idea takes hold...
First up, from John Maynard Keynes in The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money: The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. As I’ve said before, when you’re innovating, you have to break connections before you can make new ones. This is a big part of the challenge in diffusing innovation – and one to which we often fail to pay sufficient attention. The second quote is from my favourite management guru – Tom Peters, from an article in the Chicago Tribune...
via techcrunch.com I think this 7" form factor is going to be "the thing" this year... 7" is going to be the new black.
via twaggies.com Very funny...B-))
Check out this website I found at bikingbis.com Woohoo! The Snoqualmie Tunnel is open again!!
via feedproxy.google.com Hmmm.... This one could be a keeper...
via feedproxy.google.com Placing my bets on 2012 being the year that 7" is the new black.
ISSUE 16 — September, 2011 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Aldous Huxley “The proper study of mankind is books.” Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) First reading that quote some years ago, I was perplexed, and thus unenlightened. I liked the implied reverence for books, which I have shared all my life, but—what did it mean? Now, with the benefit of a few more years of living, reading, and learning to understand...
We’re all for the convenience of e-mail, instant messaging, texting, Facebook messages, Twitter, Google + and whatever the new electronic communication method of choice will be tomorrow, but they all feel cold and emotionless. There’s only so much that emoticons and hearts can convey, so if you really want to get your point across you need to change the medium. Writing things down with a pen and some paper isn’t convenient—and it’s definitely time consuming—but it’s also glamorous and leaves you with a sense of accomplishment...
The 5 Principles of a Profound Workday ‘Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.’ ~Laozi Post written by Leo Babauta. Let us toss out all we know for a moment. Toss notions of productivity, time management, efficiency, and the bottom line. Empty our workdays of all we’ve packed them with, and sit still with an empty room. What should we put in this room? Do we want to spend our limited space on busy-ness, on making money, on quick transactions and calculated...
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I hope you’re not eating anything because you’re about to see some real Jame Gumb stuff in a second. Vibram, famous makers of Sergey’s crazy monkey shoes (that I actually wear while running, much to my wife’s chagrin), have released two new models, the acceptably styled Trek LS, a lace up trail shoe/sneaker, and the absolutely abhorrent (yet strangely alluring) Bormio boots. BirthdayShoes has reviews of both the Bormio and the LS but we’ll highlight a few points below. The LS shoes are more like a sneaker with...
NEW BLOOD (Studio Album) Following last year's 'Scratch My Back' album, where Peter Gabriel reinterpreted a diverse selection of other artists' songs, comes 'NEW BLOOD'. 'NEW BLOOD' features re-imagined arrangements of many of Peter's songs which dispense with the traditional weapons of the rock armoury - no guitar, or drum kits - the lyrics are exposed and laid bare, often taking new meaning with the passing of the years. This treatment is applied with painstaking attention to detail and stunning effect...
« Seth Godin, a Single Strategy God | Main | Courses, Conferences and Events » August 11, 2011 Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2011) One year ago, at the Agile 2010 conference, I came up with the idea to publish a Top 100 Agile Books. Like many of my other top 100 lists it was a great success (in terms of blog traffic). This year I am not at the Agile 2011 conference (for various reasons, both good and bad). But nevertheless, I decided to publish a new edition of the Top 100 Agile...
via engadget.com I had an amber screen rather than a green screen, but this was pretty much the first setup I owned... It's still downstairs somewhere...
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via gizmodo.com Way cool...
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Taken at Chase Center / Russell Investments Center
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It must be getting time to call this vacation complete - the sunsets are becoming expected, rather than awe-inspiring...
It must be getting time to call this vacation complete - the sunsets are becoming expected, rather than awe-inspiring...
Taken at Butters at SeaTac
Taken at Convention Place Station
via fixmeasnack.com Just tripped across this site this afternoon. there's some wonderful recipes for parents who dislike "high-fructose corn syrup" as much as we do...
Rush bringing "Moving Pictures" back this summer Posted By Ernest Jasmin on January 18, 2011 at 11:31 am Share this Rush will bring their Time Machine Tour back to Washington this summer. The Canadian prog-rock kings will headline the Gorge Amphitheatre in George on July 2, Live Nation announced today. Tickets will go for $45 to $110, and Live Nation and...
via youtube.com Fun film, and a lot of personal memories buried in here... My Dad and I were both IBMers at one point, and I can still remember how wonderful it was when I called him and told him I'd accepted a job with IBM right after grad school. There's times I wish I'd stayed in the heavily-starched white shirts...
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana USA — Giant Leap Rocketry is proud to announce the arrival of the Mariah-38, a minimum-diameter 38mm kit. The Mariah-38 features Giant Leap's new Shotgun Recovery System™. This means that the Mariah-38 is dual-deployment capable but has only one separation point to reduce drag and increase performance. Giant Leap's new Mariah-38 has dual-deploy, but only one separation point. We dare you. The Shotgun configuration makes this one of the most unique and high-performance rockets in the Giant...
This is an amazing read of a guy on a mission. ...and of the wonderful world of Texas politics...http://www.esquire.com/features/the-state-of-the-american-man/ESQ0305EARLE_156 via ScribeFire
How cool does this look?!?!?!? High on *want* list... Clear Your Desk (and calendar) TankBot’s Coming Soon! | iPhonefreak Source: iphonefreak.com Shawn Morrissey sent this using ShareThis.
via feedproxy.google.com What? No pigs??? What the ??? B-)
Yes yes yes!!! Microsoft Brings the First Piece of Office to the iPhone: OneNote Source: mobilized.allthingsd.com Bowing to market reality, Redmond is offering a version of its note-taking program that will run on Apple's iPhone. The app will be free for a limited time, Microsoft said.
You may recall experiencing the unabashed radness that was Hot Wheels way back in the day – whether or not that day was 25 years or 25 hours ago. But either way, you’ll more than likely wish you’d have had one of these. Enter the Hot Wheels Video Racer, hailing straight from the ‘Couldn’t Come Soon Enough’ department. The toy does exactly what it says on the tin: it’s a typical Hot Wheels car. With a camera embedded in the front. That’s right – Hot Wheels enthusiasts will now be able to live their stunt tracks from...
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath My rating: 5 of 5 stars It's great to hear that you do best as what you enjoy doing best. It's sounds so simple, and after a lifetime of "you need to focus on becoming more well-rounded, by focusing on your weaknesses.." it is a refreshing thing to hear...for those who care, my top 5 are: Strategic Intellection Learner Restorative Ideation View all my reviews
TRYX Digital Camera Cool Material Every guy thinks he has the natural ability to be a great photographer. It usually happens after a bunch of rum and coke’s at a wedding when you decide to grab the disposable camera from [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.Sent with Reeder
via execdigital.com i love this story.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Update: In a recent Mac 911 entry a reader asked how he might transfer Angry Birds saved game data between one iOS device and another. It turns out that not only is this possible, but it's also possible to transfer this data between an iOS device and the Mac App version of the game (and vice versa). It's all the same file. Read on to the end learn how this is done...
via justanotheripadblog.com right on - a stompbox for the ipad...B-).
Why We Check In, And How We’ll Do It In 2011 Share January 3, 2011 The location-based check-in – while it may have been a ‘trend to watch’ for the past two years, we’re not expecting it to disappear in 2011. From automatic location detection (to combat check-in fatigue?), to content and brand check-ins – how and what we check-in to will continue to evolve in 2011. Speaking to this point, a recent post at Mashable explored some of the reasons why we check-in – and how these deeper-rooted...
This blows my mind. Time for a new amendment: Persons over 18 need to act like f'ing grownups. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPag...
Catching up on the World via Pixelpipe
via moleskineus.com Oh yeah - office supply pr0n time. Moleskine also has sticky notes now.... ....a shopping we will go, a shopping we will go...
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My brother sent along the setlist the gentlemen of Rush have been following this tour. Now I’m so excited that I can’t stop bouncing up and down in my chair… 1. The Spirit Of Radio...
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