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A physicist on the “Lessig style”

Bill — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:54 +0000

“Many have asked me about my Keynote (it is not PowerPoint) presentation style. I honestly don’t have much to say about it, as I’ve not thought it through. But Chris Tunnell, a researcher on the SNO neutrino physics experiment has, and he sent me his thoughts about how and why (and whether) the style works based on his own experience using it for physics presentations. Read about it in the extended entry.”

Starting the CEO Search

Bill — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:04:45 +0000

“There’s a lot of activity around Adaptive Path these days. With the impending release of our book Subject to Change, our upcoming events rapidly selling out, our growing presence in Austin, and our expanding range of interesting projects for clients around the world — there’s more going on here than ever.

Right now, all three of us (Peter, Jesse, and Bryan) work as a team to keep Adaptive Path growing culturally, creatively, and financially. But with all the opportunities opening up for the company, we’ve decided the time is right to add a new perspective to the mix. That’s why we’re announcing today that we’re on the lookout for a CEO to add to our executive team.”

No bullet points

Bill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:22:31 +0000

“I’m in the middle of preparing my presentation for Highland Fling and I find myself wondering if there’s a logo somewhere I can use on my first slide to tell the world that my presentation does not contain any bullet points.

I Google it. I find nothing. So I make one.

So I present to you the super-duper official No Bullet Points campaign/logo/badge.”

The Superest: Die Chart

Bill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:21:55 +0000

“Creating an action plan to champion the synergies of goal-oriented murdering tactics while front pocketing customer-centric policies to take you offline by EOD.”

Scandic: Better World

Bill — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:21:12 +0000

One company’s approach to doing business in a healthy and environmentally sound way.

Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong

Bill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:02:19 +0000

“Let me get this straight: The company will side with petulant, unreasonable, angry, demanding customers instead of with me, its loyal employee? And this is meant to lead to better customer service?”

VizThink: Visual Thinking Workshops in NYC (5/2) and CHI (5/7)

Bill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:44:20 +0000

“Are you a visual thinker? Do you want to hone your visual thinking skills? Do you want to learn from some of the best in our industry? Then the Visual Thinking Workshop is for you! VizThink is offering a series of one-day workshops all around the United States. These workshops will help you improve your visual thinking skills. The first workshop series will be run by Dave Gray and Karl Gude.

Apparently separated at birth, together they will show you how to visualize your ideas so you can think and communicate with greater clarity and effectiveness. Working individually and in small teams, you will learn and practice visualization techniques that have been successfully used to improve innovation and accelerate change at some of the world’s leading companies. After completing this workshop you will have a toolkit for thinking and presentation effectiveness — your presentations of complex information and strategies will never be the same.”

RunMyProcess > On demand business integration and process management (BPM)

Bill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:31:18 +0000

“RunMyProcess is a SaaS Web 2.0 integration platform which allow to automate, without any programming, the exchange between your internal information system, your partners or your software…”

Coding Horror: Paul Graham’s Participatory Narcissism

Bill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:30:31 +0000

“I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays– repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters– are among the best writing I’ve found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That’s more than I can say for 99.9-infinitely-repeating-percent of the content on the web. He’s certainly a better and more authoritative writer than I.

But lately I’ve begun to wonder whether Mr. Graham, like Joel Spolsky before him, has devolved into self-absorption and irrelevance. Consider his latest essay, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss, which opens with this distasteful anecdote…”

Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

Bill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:28:19 +0000

“These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? Well explore that question as we delve into the top five email management methodologies.”