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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
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
Shawn spotted this in The Onion. NASHVILLE—In what onlookers described as an epic war for conversational dominance girlfriend Amy Soisson 28, clawed, battled, and interrupted her way to complete control
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
I lke Chris Corrigan’s suggestion that meetings reflect the basic operating system of a group of people. He reflects on the perils of trying too hard to change it too
I’m continuing to enjoy Robert Scoble’s blogging from inside Microsoft (Scoble: ex-independent uber-blogger turned MS employee… see my previous entry). Some of Scoble’s stuff is too techie for me to
