Before we can say yes, and certainly long before we can say no, we need to know why. “There is an entire section in the…
I know a good “no” can free up time and resources for the important. I need to say yes to my kids. I need to…
We don’t like saying no to people, but a clear no can be the best. “No, I’m not going out with you” means the asker…
I came across https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3593856.3595909 via https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gauge last month. “An order of magnitude lower than the baseline” seems like an excellent increase in performance. I seem…
Jody runs a volunteer portion of a larger organization. She needs six weekly volunteers for about an hour while the larger organization meets. She has…
Messages come in. Messages get processed. Messages get acknowledged. Last month at work, I found a case where a message came in and caused the…
“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make…
Happy Canada Day to all my readers. I’m going to watch the fireworks.
The last few months I’ve started running again after stopping last fall. First I ran a route and walked part way alternatively. Early May I…
Think of the 90s, when the web was first getting going. The joke was the WWW stood for World Wide Wait. Everything took forever to load. Pages of…