As part of my stud­ies in the Uni­ver­sity of Day­ton, I recently com­pleted a won­der­ful book by Don Wheeler enti­tled Under­stand­ing Vari­a­tion. The book is only 151 pages long, and is full of bril­liant obser­va­tions and the­o­ries. One of Wheeler’s points is that There are 3 Ways to meet a goal. 1. Improve the system. […]

Jack John­son is one of my favorite musi­cians. He writes sim­ple, melodic songs that are mean­ing­ful, beau­ti­ful, and thought­ful. Peri­od­i­cally, I will stop by his site, jackjohnsonmusic.com to see what Jack is up to, and to find out when his next project will be released. I recently dis­cov­ered a new sec­tion on the site containing […]

If you believe it is true that it’s not what you know, but who you know that counts, than you need to check out LinkedIn. My friend Doug Dock­ery invited me to LinkedIn a while back. I went ahead and cre­ated an account, but really did noth­ing more with it. Yes­ter­day, they sent me a […]

Last week my friend and co-worker D Wade stopped by the cube to tell me all about Steve and Barry’s. He was excited because Steve and Barry’s is an ath­letic apparel retail chain with a remark­able story, one that is eas­ily retold and mean­ing­ful — one which he wanted to tell me. The com­pany grabbed […]

I am a huge fan of graphs. They make infor­ma­tion so much eas­ier for my fee­ble brain to digest. Well done graphs pro­vide con­text that sheer numer­i­cal infor­ma­tion sim­ply can not. With that, I feel com­pelled to share an incred­i­ble graph­i­cal depic­tion of the Fed­eral Bud­get. Want to see a high level pic­ture of where […]

I love the per­son­al­ized Google Home­page. It allows you to add con­tent to the famil­iar stark white Google home page. I use it to see the weather, view my cal­en­dar, and pre­view incom­ing Gmail mes­sages. The per­son­al­ized home­page has many other great mod­ules. How­ever the prob­lem I have faced is that by adding mod­ules, the […]