Contract manufacturing has become like cloud computing
Large contract manufacturers like Foxconn in China allow companies like Apple to pay only for labor to produce a specified inventory. Tasks are continually subdivided so »
Irony of surprise parties
In business, surprises mean that there has been a breakdown in process. Often, these situations are followed by a retrospective to figure out how they can »
Margins on digital documents
Word processors typically default to 1" margins. Before when most documents were eventually going to printed this made sense, but increasingly documents are only consumed »
Image cloud
Slides containing more than a few images take a lot of work. Not only do the images need to be high resolution, but they also need »
Progress isn't linear
Progress is rarely consistent or predictable. Anyone who has spent time at the gym, running, or brainstorming ideas knows that progress comes in bursts. So, it's »
Mind maps
The more doodles I add to a mind map, the more useful it is in helping me understand how concepts fit together. Because mind maps explicitly »
When is something wet?
Defining when something is wet is surprisingly hard. In fact, there still isn't a commonly agreed upon scientific definition. Despite this, we can describe the general »
Assessments shouldn't allow for perfect scores
Assessments lose their potency when people can attain perfect scores. Rather than helping to discriminate between those who can demonstrate relevant competencies and those who cannot, »
Catching typos with text to voice
The longer you work on writing something, the easier it is to miss spelling and grammar mistakes that quickly stand out to a second pair of »
Stress cases
Edge cases are annoying to fix; often they feel more like stumbling blocks than opportunities to improve the current solution to a problem. While this may »