Earlier this year I went to a business lecture, and I was a little bored, so I took notes. I waited long enough so that the particulars of the event are no longer relevant, but my notes still seem to be applicable. In fact, I’ve applied them to several other seminars since…
Having a brother-in-law in the house for a month has been surprisingly painless.
Almost completely painless, in fact, but I can’t very well fill a blog post talking about the things he hasn’t done.
So, I posted a photo of myself on Flickr recently. Several good friends said I look really serious in the picture. But I don’t think I look that serious. In fact I think I look a little happy. What do you think?
I went to a Canadians baseball game tonight. It wasn’t just a Canadian baseball game—the team is called the Canadians. Like Vancouver’s hockey team is called the Canucks. So original.
I’m up early to head to Sunday breakfast, but I’m glad to be up, because I had a fairly awful dream.
Susie and I were in Los Angeles, working not at our house, but in an office somewhere….
A largegaggle of people came over last night for what turned into a rather larger gathering than I’d initially planned. We ate Eatery sushi from the ‘00s, played some magic from the ‘90s, listened to music from the ‘80s, and we’re all from the ‘70s.
The rest of the weekend stretches out ahead of me as formless and empty as summer vacation did when I was 12.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
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