Thanks to Boing Boing for quoting Douglas:
Although I’ve spent a fair bit of law school debating various aspects of what people can (or should be able to) bind themselves to with clickwrap and shrinkwrap licenses the one fact that everyone acknowledges is that nobody ever reads the fine print. Here’s some truly classic fine print on the receipt from my local video store, circa last Halloween.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Notes on a meeting where our host avoided the jousting of cleverness in favour of people acknowledging what it’s like to explore the things we don’t know.
In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland says The revolutionary public space that online debate represents is in danger of becoming stale and claustrophobic It’s a longish piece that is a bit
Dick Richards picks up on the Performance Appraisal conversation. He quotes his own book and I think it’s worth repeating (my emphasis). We are legitimately mystified most of us confused
It’s been quite frustrating following the coverage of the PRISM scheme to monitor internet activity. I see again how people at the top of any hierarchy seem to think the
