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Data Flow Diagrams Can Improve Your Business.
Data flow diagrams are visual illustrations of processes that can help elevate your business in short order.
I skipped college. I learned from Linux instead.
When I chose not to go to college, there were a lot of the kinds of reactions one might expect.
What To Maybe Not Ask Santa For This Year.
As ever, there are some things kids might ask for this year that might not be the best choice.
Media Literacy is the solution to many problems.
How can we teach kids media literacy so they grow up to be discerning?
Powered by Touch
Last night, in a dream of all things, I was reminded of a very real encounter that changed my perception for so much the better.
The Future of Technology Operations
Since I last wrote about it, Technology Operations (TechOps for short) has evolved. Particularly Development Operations, or DevOps for short, has become widely adopted + continues to evolve, coupled with new technologies that have been directly influenced by it + the culture it has helped shape. Even though many organizations are still struggling to realise…
The Underrated Power of Lists
Like making lists? Me, too. Even though my lists may not look like lists in the traditional sense, they still serve a pretty cool purpose.
TAG, you’re it.
Yesterday was kind of a big deal, celebrated quietly inside my own heart. It was the 10th anniversary of the day I completed a labor of love that changed my life for so much the better.
Restoring Curiosity – The Hacker Manifesto
Remember being little and curious? It’s not too late to get it back.
What We Should Understand about IoT, IIoT, and Reality
WARNING –> This is a long read, which is why the important stuff is at the top.
Specialization is for insects.
In his novel, Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein wrote the ultimate creedo for the human race.
Teaching Fish To Swim
If you’re trying to teach fish how to swim, it helps if you put them in the water.
Peter Gabriel is right about jargon.
Generally speaking, don’t use jargon. Just, don’t.
Experience
Experience is the move.
More Gratitude for Postman and McLuhan
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who was associated with NYU for forty years. He wrote countless articles, papers and seventeen books. Though my personal favorite is Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil is best known for his 1985 book about television, Amusing…
DIY vs. DIT – Part II: Decentralization and Dismantling Silos
The first part of this post built an analogy, that centralization is like DIY (Do-it-Yourself) and decentralization is like DIT (Do-it-Together).
If we can agree on that analogy, simply for the sake of conversation, then we can take it a step further by looking through that lens into some specific contexts where this approach can add value to our efforts by breaking down our silos.
The Military, Vultures + Residential Remodeling – unlikely lessons in UX
Before I moved to the State of Abe a few years ago, I lived in Juneau, Alaska. From time-to-time, I worked with military personnel, most often legal counsel, the types that handle deals to procure real estate on which to build things, all kinds of things, from barracks to administrative offices, training facilities and storage…
“Do It Yourself” (DIY) vs. “Do It Together” (DIT)
Tired: DIY (Do-It-Yourself)
Wired: DIT (Do-It-Together)
On Being Prepared
It’s not a big secret. Organizations need to be much more proactive about security. Firewalls and antivirus are not a plan anymore, they are doors and windows that can and will be circumvented. Expecting that attackers will simply stay off of your network is foolish. No one knows the moment they’ve been hacked. They find…
Stepdadding: verb.
Stepdadding (sp?) is, without a doubt, one of the most challenging things I have ever taken on in my life. Here’s a part of my stepdad story. An off-the-top-of-my-head inventory of past experiences I draw insights from almost every day in my quest to be a solid stepdad? The list includes experiences like this: Designing…
VR, AR + MR: Designing the New Reality Experience
UPDATE: this post was refined and published on InVision’s blog on March 6, 2017. You can read that version here. Seven days after the release of Pokémon Go, more than 65 million people were playing it. SIXY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE. How many people live in your whole town? County? State? Here’s some perspective: in the whole…
Trends, once, again.
Change is a big theme this time of year, the only time we seem to be collectively on board with change is now, at the changing of the calendar. Oh, funny life. In any case, we all enjoy taking a look back, and a look forward, at trends, methods, tools and strategies that worked well,…