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• Measure Once - Cut 5 or 6 Times As I mentioned in an earlier post, we spent the weekend redoing our bathroom & entryway. The biggest a-ha I can offer you: Iterate For a Snug Fit. For each piece of sub-flooring, each tile, and the new mopboard - we would: Make the measurement Cut off a hair little less than we measured Massage the piece in place Mark where
• Customers are Cheaper than Ad Agencies When people are sharing more and more with each other and strangers, when audiences are splintering, when the relationship between a company and it’s customers is far more measurable, spending millions of dollars on “brand awareness” would seem hilarious - if it wasn’t sad. In other words: “You don’t want the kind of high-production stories that come
• Legalizing Feng Shui Last month Assemblyman Leland Yee introduced a bill in the California legislature to put Feng Shui principles on the books. State officials were speechless “We know earthquakes knock down buildings, we know fire burns down buildings. We don’t know what feng shui does to buildings.” As Assemblyman Yee responded, “A lot of the principles of feng shui
• Intentional or Not All Products Are Building Blocks Listening to Dave Slusher’s interview with Phil Torrone of Make Zine reminded me that no product, software, or website is an end itself. All these things are tools. Tools that build off one another. Tools that need to be integrated to be useful.
• A Systems Thinking Overview As an introduction to the perspective Working Pathway’s brings to your project, I present this excellent overview of systems thinking from the late Donella Meadows: Dancing with Systems. Here are some highlights to get you started: “Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves.” “Aid and encourage the forces and structures that help the