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Self Help
There are lots of articles on the web talking about this way and that way to improve your life, home, work, diet, productivity, whatever. Pay attention to how long the author has been doing whatever they are selling. All too often, it is measured in weeks or months. Show me someone who has been using […]
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The Route of a Text Message
An excellent writeup by Scott B. Weingart of what happens when you send a text message. Written in a way that you can easily read it as deep or as superficial as you want.
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Travelog: Washington DC
The following is a single page version of 7 facebook posts I made as a travelog of a Washington DC trip. Some of the facts may be, um, completely made up unverified.
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Built To Last (or How My Dad built something electronic that has lasted for 300,000 hours and still is running)
My dad (John Bredesen Sr.) had a career where he, among other things, built radio and television stations. The technical stuff. Transmitters and studios and really tall antenna. Took me about 3/4 of the way up one of his towers…1200 ft…gave me some serious willies. And he climbed them. Voluntarily. With safety harness, but still. […]
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Who controls Bagels & Bikes and why do we think that anyone should?
https://shift.newco.co/an-introduction-to-emergent-order-a20a9aa025f To appreciate why this is impressive, you might start by considering who decides how many retail outlets a city will have for bread and bagels. When your bakery opened in the place where it is now, it just as easily could have been a florist or a shoe store or a bike shop or […]
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Noahpinion: The Shouting Class
Interesting take on the uglier side of the internet. This seems to be one of the more thoughtful attempts at understanding it. http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.no/2017/06/the-shouting-class.html And this in turn got me thinking: All of social media is like that. Not for the first time, I started to worry that social media technology is hurting our popular discourse […]
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“from a C-Corp to a Public Benefit corporation”
https://www.fastcompany.com/3068547/why-kickstarter-decided-to-radically-transform-its-business-model This is a good development. I don’t disagree* with the charter of C-Corp (increase shareholder value), after all, most of us benefit from that every day (phones, cars, healthcare, most things in our homes). However, having a mechanism for a different model is a very good thing. This is an article about how KickStarter […]
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What’s that down there?
Ever looked out a window while in an airplane and wondered what you were looking at? Yeah, there an app for that. Also works for driving. Unsurprisingly, Loeffler got the idea for the app on a plane. “I realized that most people don’t have my geology background, and that they might be missing out on […]
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Another Dad/Cemetery article
Article about the cemetery that my Dad has been involved with for years.
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Lessons for my kids #32
Anytime you fill out a form and send in to someone, make sure to keep a copy for yourself. Keep in mind that your phone can take a good photo of a sheet or paper. You can also print a web form to a PDF on most computers. Name it something that will make it […]
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Eugene Masonic Cemetery (article quoting my dad, w/pic)
Here is an article about a regular music event at the cemetery. Been doing this for a couple of years and it is popular with musicians and audiences.
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Amazon’s No Outlier: The Science Behind Broken work Cultures
Article. We surveyed tens of thousands of people across different companies, industries, and sectors and consistently discovered that when their reasons for working are closely aligned with the work itself, their performance spikes. Otherwise, it suffers. While all of us could list hundreds of unique reasons why we do virtually anything, our research shows most […]
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The best business process…
The best business process is one that the employees want to follow. The best business process is one that is easier than all the alternatives.
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Invisible Technology: Disney edition
An interesting article about Disney and how they made tech invisible.
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McDonald’s Theory of…
I’ve used this technique before but haven’t heard it called this. The key is getting people to start throwing out stuff. No one wants to be the first. I believe it is also easier for some to respond to something than it is to come up with a blank sheet idea. Even if their reaction […]
John Bredesen
Retired IT Leader, Author, and bad pun appreciater