XKCD nails it again!
Month: September 2017
Off the Shelf (Links Edition) 9/15/17
My favorite reads from this week: Employment The Service Class Deserves Better (citylab) a paean to a group of people who are invisible The city has a big, new toy to serve small businesses (crains) jobmobile The Everything Simulator (medium). On using AI for training. For a while I’ve wanted to create an online multi-player …
Change in Charge
The Cat and I write to you today from, as Dorothy Sayers puts it, “an undisclosed location” as our apartment floors are being replaced and we have temporarily moved out. She was particularly good on the way to the hotel, and has been suspiciously well-behaved, but I think it’s terror more than anything. If I …
Messy or Neat?
I worked with a guy once who kept the cleanest desk. The surface contained: 1 computer 1 phone 1 pop-up post-it dispenser 1 pencil cup with 1 red pen, 1 blue pen, 1 black pen, 1 mechanical pencil (He also had a unique method of filing: first, he threw almost everything away – “If I …
What’s That in Your Bag?
One of the lessons I learned in a previous life where I was an actress of sorts, was how to enter the stage. The teacher told us, “Your character is always coming from somewhere and they bring a little of that somewhere with them.” Maybe they had to dodge raindrops on their way in from …
Change+Management 