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Ulysses Meets Twitter
What a great way to celebrate Bloomsday: Twittering the most hypertext text of all time (before there even was a concept hypertext, though I guess we could argue that a bit). Check it out at Ulysses...
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The Best Coffee in Traverse City
Two summers ago, we migrated my family from our metro Detroit home to Traverse CIty, roughly 240 miles, so I could take a new job at the idyllic Interlochen Center for the Arts. Deciding to accept the...
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Fail Fast with Agile
A nice article yesterday from Aaron Erickson about the relationship — I would go as far as to say the symbiotic relationship — of agile software development and failure. He provides an overview of...
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Introducing “Another American Childhood.”
I haven’t done a very good job keeping up with the constant stream of fail fast references and my terse commentary regarding them this year because my blogging time has been spent on another writing...
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A Three-Point Scale for Ranking Resumes
I’ve had the good fortune, both back when we had an economy and, less often but more recently, now that we don’t, to be responsible for hiring a fair number of people over my career. I’ve had the even...
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Oink Fails Fast
From Oink Closure Raises Questions about ‘Fail Fast’ Development: Oink’s brief three-month stint seems to instead be a case of an extreme version of Google’s ‘fail fast’ mentality, which led to the...
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How to Fail: Mark Pincus
From How to Fail: Mark Pincus: One of the things I try to instill at Zynga is to fail fast, look at the data, and move on
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Failure Is Our Only Option
A nice article by DJ Patil, a data scientist who used to work at LinkedIn, in wired.co.uk. Now it’s easy to say go forth and fail! What’s most important is how you fail. The best method is to fail...
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Fail Fast on Facebook
I’m not sure if blogs are waning as a medium or not, but I find that I often want to share a quick link or point that doesn’t feel worthy of an entire post but isn’t going to fit into 140, either. So,...
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The Benefits of Accidental Reading
There was a time when I would only read one book or magazine at a time. Straight through, cover to cover — including the covers, the notes, the advertisements — and I would do so even if I wasn’t...
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