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A 90-post collection

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Repurposing old laptops

If you have an old laptop sitting around that still works, you should consider donating it to folks who are less privileged in your community (e. »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Opinion, Environment, Generosity, Reflections 16 October 2022

Three types of questions at work

Knowing when to try finding answers to questions yourself versus when to ask your team for help can be hard. While it's important to be resourceful, »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Business, Opinion 04 January 2022

What makes STEM classes different

The current zeitgeist emphasizes increasing the number of students pursuing STEM. Many hypothesize that classroom instruction is one of the reasons there are disproportionately high failure »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Opinion, Observations, Class 04 February 2019

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 »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Opinion, Software, Design 08 May 2018

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 »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Observations, Opinion, Business, Sports 14 April 2018

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, »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Opinion, Reflections 07 March 2018

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 »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Design, Opinion, Software, Reflections, Business 27 January 2018

Complaints are a measure of engagement

Customer complaints are a sign that a product needs improvement. Sometimes that's because a product doesn't work, but other times it's because users are pushing the »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Business, Opinion 28 July 2017

Talking about work in social settings

I've noticed that people, as working adults, are rarely interested in hearing about professional accomplishments in social settings in the same way that they tend to »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Reflections, Opinion 08 May 2017

Why confirmation matters

Web forms make it easy to collect information. They're particularly well-suited for surveys where individual submissions are less important than the overall corpus of data collected. »

Cyrus Stoller Cyrus Stoller on Opinion, Software, Design 14 March 2017
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