Semantic improvements for news coverage that should be in the html 5 spec
With all of the recent political news stories I thought it would be useful to filter out the wheat from the chaff, and what better way to do that than by introducing new tags to refine the semantics of the news? Surely these are as important as H1, Strong and EM tags for news stories. I […]
The Five Whys meet the Five Whats
People like to use the Five Whys of Toyota to diagnose problems (in deductive fashion). I use the 5 Whats to explain what I do for a living, Stronico, and my music. Which version you get depends on what I think your subject matter expertise happens to be. For my consulting company the 5 Whats […]
How much deep thinking is the right amount?
Earlier today I began writing a blog post about the artisan style of entrepreneurship and I began wondering: what is the right amount of meta thinking to do in a given day? Stronico has yet to emerge from beta and I have not earned a reputation as a visionary (yet). Who really cares what I think about […]
A workable secret society web application – Brain Trust
I wrote about my desire to form a secret society several months ago and so far have found no suitable web application to help me do that. IMind seems to be the closest complete solution but it seems too jumbled to accomplish much (I’m judging them purely from their website, I have not tried the product.) […]
Why you should never complain about anything – with anecdotal proof!
My new commandment: Never complain about anything. Ever. If you feel the need to complain to pressure someone else to make something happen, then be honest and call it manipulation. I realized this while at a client meeting; we were talking about problems with a botched sales program and the staff had a litany of […]
Stalin on the road to Barbarossa
I just finished reading L.A. Noir by John Buntin, a history of the Los Angeles Police Department, and was struck by the similarity of Stalin’s reaction to the German invasion of 1941 and the Police Chief Thomas Parker’s reaction to Watts riots in the 1960s. First some history – in 1941 Nazi Germany launched Operation […]