Monthly Archives: November, 2011

Time to Get My Core Rhythm Back

It seems like every few months I need to be reminded about healthy rhythms and routines.  Fortunately I do have a few things built into my life that remind me.  One is subscribing to various blogs — one of which is The Energy Project.  It was The Energy Project author, Tony Schwartz, that inspired me [...]

User Friendly View of the Federal Budget

Regardless of personal feelings on the Fed budget, Jess Bachman took on the initiative to map out every Federal department and their spend (including what they spent last year), and created a user friendly visual depiction of the Feb Budget. Worth checking out for a couple reasons: As far as the author knows, this is [...]

EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants Help ‘Fight the Famine’

Below is a press release from EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants.   As many of you know I’m working for EffectiveUI.  I’m also friends with one of the founders of 15 Million Elephants (15ME).  15ME is a great new platform that is helping large charities raise money. EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants Help ‘Fight the [...]

A Googler Rant: Platform vs. Product

Oct 12 this rant from Steve Yegge (ex Amazon and current Googler was posted on Google plus).  Since no one actually uses Google plus I figured I would post to my blog and share via Facebook and Twitter. It’s definitely worth the read. Here’s the link to Steve Yegge’s entire essay/rant: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX Here are a few [...]