Ben Aldern

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It might not be a problem for Bond, but it’s a problem for you and me. (Picture by http://bit.ly/6RDsv6)

Shovels

Mint.com and Excel make great shovels

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No, you don’t automatically deserve that

Too often we convince ourselves that we have a high intrinsic material worth. We don’t.

Be a great self manager. Don’t coast up.

“Great managers are never satisfied with only a gradual, slow, natural improvement curve. They want and expect, and measure, and verify noted improvement in certain areas. The kind of improvement that cant happen without specific, narrow effort, and a sustained bit of attention, and 3, 6, 9 months worth of work to improve oneself. You’re not going [...]

Slow in, fast out

The comparison below is of two laps within half a second of each other around Suzuka driven by the same driver.

Just looking at the throttle position, brake position, speed, and steering wheel angle traces, the laps seem nearly identical. But the variance channel tells a different story. Variance is the time difference at certain points [...]

I’m tired so my world might end

There’s never been a question so subtly important than “How are you?” When you consider that the first interaction with someone that day will probably start with something like this, the you give answer is huge because over time builds your image in someone’s mind. If every time, you answer with “Tired” or “Busy,” you [...]

Keep bringin’ it

Sometimes you get hit. You underperform. You come up against a major obstacle. Your project has a major setback. You step back to reassess your position and your approach. After all, you just got feedback of the most real, gut wrenching type and need to find out what went wrong and fix it.

Not new to me

Media Hacks #19 is out! It’s been a while and I’ve missed my favorite podcast dearly. As always, it got me thinking. This time, the topic of thought is Mitch Joel’s response to a review of his book Six Pixels of Separation that suggested there was nothing new in his book.
I posit that we generally [...]

Filters

Iterations of text, image, video, audio vary enough in form factor, purpose, audience to be classified as different forms of media even within their own categories. So how do you get the data you want in the form you need in a timely manner? More important, how do you keep from rejecting valuable content if you don’t know it exists?

People can conclude the world if you give them few enough words

I was reading a great blog the other day and one of the posts was a one line quote. The amount of people who liked that quote was about the same as the other three of the four most recent posts combined. Do people like this because it’s catchy? Because it’s thought provoking? Because [...]

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