Archive for 2010
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
My coastal friends often needle me about my fly-over state sensitivities, and rightly so. The issue sometimes becomes more of a cause than an observation for me, and that's always a dangerous slipperly slope.
However, in my defense, I offer this tweet by Lance Ulanoff, Editor in Chief of PC Magazine.
Interesting Idea: ...
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Monday, December 27th, 2010
The views were impressive looking out of the mansion, across the expansive lawns and down to Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean spanning the western horizon.
I don’t think I ever knew how many rooms were in the place. More rooms than Steph has shoes, of that I’d wager confidently. But, ...
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Friday, December 24th, 2010
Back in 2004 I wrote a holiday message about our Christmas tree titled The Seekers.
It turned out to be one of the most popular essays of that era.
Since then, it's turned into a bit of a holiday tradition, with old friends asking early in the holiday season if I'm going to post it again.
As I ...
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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
There's a lot of heated political rhetoric about taxes these days, particularly U.S. federal taxes.
Some people want to abolish federal taxes. Just about everybody would like to pay less federal taxes. I think it's safe to say that everyone would like to see federal tax dollars used more efficiently.
I don't ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
I read a good article on the radical re-making of the advertising market today: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/mayhem-on-madison-avenue.html
The article referenced a classic post by Clay Shirky that I'd read before, but was worth revisiting: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Clay, in turn, referenced a book by Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies.
Tainter makes many compelling observations, as summarized by Shirky:
"Complex ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
I had an interesting exchange of Facebook comments with my friend Lee Wochner regarding the post Six Lessons. Since I keep my Facebook world pretty cloistered, I thought I'd share the comments with the wider world here on Autopsis.
10/16/2010
Lee Wochner commented on your post.
"I'm not sure your metaphor applies to politics or governance. Capitulation and ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
As most of you know, we spent most of the time between 2003 and 2009 exploring the world.
We've got our own list of lessons learned from those travels here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/index-lessons-byarea.htm
Gary Arndt, who spent the last three years doing the same, was recently interviewed by Tim Ferriss and gave his 20 ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
(This post available as a PDF document here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/6lessons.pdf )
I learned six lessons today.
The lessons came from over the bridge.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
This was the sunrise view from the balcony of our room today at the Many Glaciers Lodge, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
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This is a panorama created in Photoshop CS5 64 from nine separate shots. The photos were taken handheld with my Canon S90 pocket camera ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
19 July, 2010
While Scott is out wandering the world, we are left to more pedestrian, plebeian pursuits.
Devoid of exotic destinations, we must settle for the typical, the mundane, the merely domestic.
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That’s not to say it is without its simple pleasures.
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And ...
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