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The first step doesn’t matter
Businesses are littered with first steps. Attempts to change or improve that never get followed up on. A first release of a newsletter with no second. Look at your intranet to see what is stale. See what hasn’t been update. These are failures. You don’t get points for starting something. The first step is not…
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IT Help Desk: What’s the Point?
There is an expectation in any non-small business that the IT department has a Help Desk. A phone number, email, location that is the central place to report IT problems. An expectation that the problems will get resolved quickly and efficiently. A place for IT questions, requests, and issues to go…ideally not to die, but…
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Rainier – The Perfect Gentleman
This post was written in January 2012 after Rainier died. See this post for his last day. Rainier, April 1999 – January 2012 Dear Family & Friends, It is with a sad heart that I tell you that Rainier passed away last night. The vet believes
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Rainier – The Last Day
The below was written after Rainier died. Not very coherent or complete. The whole event happened in one evening. See this post for more about Rainier. We were heading out of town for the weekend so we dropped off Rainier at some good friend’s house. They have a couple of dogs that Rainier likes playing…
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The Astonishing Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11
Long Read. Amazing recap of what happened to our financial systems on 9/11/2001. Or rather what didn’t happen: it didn’t break. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11#
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David Allen: Getting Things Done (GTD)
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15 Albums
(Challenge: Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums…
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Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines This is an excellent article on writing email subject lines, article titles, etc. Anyone who sends emails or writes should internalize the message from the article.
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The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program
The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program via The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program.
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Oxygen
There are thousands of self-help books out there. However, the single most useful self-help concept is said on every flight every day: “Put your own oxygen mask on before assisting others.”
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42 pounds of Pop Rocks
The past. The present. The future. Today. Tomorrow. Yesterday. Are they important? We think so. But do we live like they are? I’m not so sure. Sometimes we spend our tomorrows cheaply. We push things off we know we should do today. We take out debt, spending our future before we get there. We cheapen…
John Bredesen: Remember, wherever you go, there you are.