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In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, there were 25 world records set in swimming competitions. If that sounds like a lot to be broken in a single year of events, it’s because it was at the time. Of those […]
When I first started working at Bottle Rocket Studios helping clients craft world-class mobile experiences, I thought I was an expert. I had spent years telling the world I was on my blog. Had even finished my pages for a […]
“When the number of options available are limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and move on with life. To behave otherwise is to waste precious time and energy.” William […]
I’m a member of the last generation to know life before the Internet. I’ve been able to witness how people have managed to craft personas based on their time spent online. This didn’t happen on purpose, of course. We saw […]
There aren’t many people from college I keep up with anymore. Just a few close buddies that I spent almost every day of life with for a few years. After graduation, we would call often, even do group calls to […]
Pragmatism is possibly one of those words you’ve heard 1000 times and feel confident you know what it means. I did. On the surface, it seems like a straightforward concept. The definition is simple: Pragmatism /’praɡmətɪz(ə)m/ (noun) : an approach […]
Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming In 1963 Dr. De Solla Price developed “Price’s Law.” Price’s law describes unequal distribution of productivity in most domains of creativity. The original target of this study was the scientific community and the contributors to it’s […]
Let’s challenge the myth that you are capable of discovering objective truth and think without bias. You cannot be unbiased. Every decision you make and every metric you choose will have some measure of bias. Your brain is a bias […]
It is said that bad culture will beat a good person every time. Conversely one of my favourite proverbs is, “as iron sharpens iron, so is a man the countenance of his friends.” In short you come to reflect the […]
Sir Isaac Newton* The Agile ecosystem is a growing by leaps and bounds every day; there are countless examples of frameworks, canvases, or models to aid in agile transformation. And yet even with all this there is a […]