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Building Teams…just like making Granola?
Ah Granola. That wonderful treat consisting of oats, nuts, honey and other assorted goodies like berries, bananas, chocolate chips, raisins etc etc. Additionally, granola can be a snack, a meal or a dessert…it truly is a force to be reckoned with. To make granola, you don’t need any special ‘tools’ or appliances. You just need [...]
Tips for making good coffee (and building better teams)
There are many ways to make coffee. You’ve got your pre-ground coffee. You’re pre-packaged coffee. Whole Bean coffee. Self-roasted coffee. Instant coffee. And as many types of coffee, there are just as many ways to make coffee. Drip. French Press. Instant. Percolator. Etc etc. For the purposes of this post, let’s look at three ways [...]
Always Learning. Or: my attempt to improve my (horrid) programming habits
I’m the worlds worst developer. Really. I am. I don’t follow best practices and my coding style is the oft-chided “brute force” method. I owe (blame?) my coding style on the fact that the first language I learned was FORTRAN 77 and then quickly I picked up C. Then…I spent 3 years teaching FORTRAN 77 [...]
Context and Data
A few weeks ago I wrote about Big Data and Small Business. From that post, I wrote: As its defined, big data might be too big for small business, but the concepts behind big data – identifying, collecting, analyzing and using data – aren’t too big. Anyone can use do four steps regardless of business size and [...]
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