September 24th is National Punctuation Day… a day to celebrate the American tradition of co-opting the calendar for the purposes of marketing and self-promotion, as well as to perpetrate horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE puns. I can’t think of a better combination to appeal to headline writers of second-tier city business newspapers. This day for the punctilious among us [...]
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http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html This is going up there with my Edward Tufte collection… A hundred different visualization methods (72 in the main section, plus another 28 below), grouped into related clusters and graded according to certain attributes (e.g. divergent vs. convergent thinking). I’ve seen many ”Iceberg” diagrams but who know ”Heaven ‘n Hell” charts were common enough to gain themselves a [...]
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What I’ve come to understand: I’m a consultant of the “clock-building” variety, as opposed to the “time-telling” variety. This means that instead of just telling people what to do and/or just doing things for them (“time telling”), I help them develop the means to do it for themselves (“clock building”).
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props to the SMG (and Benzo too)
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“These things cannot be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of Strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see. You must study hard.” - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings Generalists are either incredibly useful, or incredibly annoying. The way to tell the [...]
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