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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Thoughts on “What Matters Now?”
Several people pointed me to What Matters Now? (Download the PDF e-book version) arranged by Seth Godin. I glanced over it and thought it looked interesting, but didn’t have time to read it. I got around to analyzing it last [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Gangplank, Personal, Productivity, Startups
Tagged adventure, autonomy, compassion, confidence, context, dignity, enrichment, evangelism, excellence, generosity, gumption, harmony, iterative, knowledge, meaning, momentum, neoteny, nobody, parsing, passion, poker, possibility, power, Productivity, sacrifice, social skills, speaking, strengths, what matters now, yahoo, yahoo pipes
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Explore Arizona Tweetups
I have been talking a little bit lately about the Arizona State Park System and it’s woes. I realized that many people that are new to Arizona haven’t really explored it and don’t understand some of the awesome that surrounds [...]
Posted in Community, Explore Arizona, Personal
Tagged arizona, camping, Community, parks, state parks, tweetup
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Arizona Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (State Park System)
Arizona is in a fiscal melt down. They need to balance the budget. The state is going to have to get creative to do so without slashing everything to the bone. In a move that I just can’t seem to [...]
Posted in Personal
Tagged arizona, budget, Community, economic development, policy, politics, rv, state park system
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Sunday Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: If you desire to understand how your brain works and how you learn this [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged brain, brainstorm, Creativity, Education, Productivity, reading
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11 Months of Phoenix Metro Rail Ridership Data?
I saw RailLife post Metro Rail ridership numbers from Jan 2009 through Nov 2009. I was curious what these numbers looked like graphed out, so I quickly plotted the weekday, saturday and sunday/holiday numbers.
I then wondered what effect temperature may [...]
Sunday Review: Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Book felt forced. It would have been just as good being only half as [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, policy
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Accountability Is Painful!
Part of doing agile development means being accountable and transparent. Recently Integrum has started to step up it’s path towards excellence. The team felt that testing was not being all that it could be and more importantly that [...]
Posted in Integrum
Tagged Agile, ci, continous integration, cruise, cruise control, cruisecontrol.rb, excellence, fail, fun, team, transparent, visibility
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Sunday Review: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Deliberate practice is hard work, but is the only sure way to becoming excellent [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, music, Productivity, reading, talent
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Regional Ruby Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
There was a call for conference planning for a Regional Ruby Conference on the Ruby AZ meeting list recently. It was at the request of fellow local Ruby company DevFu that I decided to attend. I showed up [...]
Sunday Review: Driven From Within by Michael Jordan
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Jordan proves that talent had little to do with his rise to success. He [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged book review, discipline, drive, innovation, motivation, passion, Productivity, reading, success, successful entrepreneur
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