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Pick Any Two

Better, faster, cheaper. Pick any two
Integrity, validity, security. Pick any two
Strategy, execution, luck. Pick any two.
Profits, Passion, Purpose. Pick any two.

2010 03 06 BlahBlog BlogMouth
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10 Ways to Make Your Boss Love You

Here is a draft post that has been waiting to be published. The October 2009 issue of Smart Money had a short list of top 10 Ways to Make Your Boss Love You. I think these are still applicable now.

Put in the hours-when it counts.
Empathize
Defuse a bad situation
Be a conduit
Ask for help
Connect the [...]

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2010 02 20 BlahBlog BlogMouth
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Infinite Shakespeare Theorem

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. My question is, what would get if you have Shakespeare hitting a typewriter keyboard for an infinite [...]

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2009 09 30 BlahBlog BlogMouth Comments (0)

Top 10 Most Powerful Women

The September issue of Forbes has a list of The World’s Most Powerful Women top 100 list. Here are the top 10 women, according to Forbes.

Angela Merkel
Sheila Bair
Indra Nooyi
Cynthia Carroll
Ho Ching
Irene Rosenfeld
Ellen Kullman
Angela Braly
Anne Lauvergeon
Lynn Elsehans

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2009 09 09 BlahBlog Business Comments (0)

Top Fab Five Tumblr for September 2009

Tumblr is a one of those micro-blogging social sites, not to unfamiliar to Twitter or the current incarnation of Facebook. What I find unique about Tumblr is the community of artist that gravitate around the site. Here are my top fab five tumblrs for the month of September, 2009!!!

Intentionally Untitled
Eat. Sleep. Draw.
Battling Pink [...]

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2009 09 07 BlahBlog BlogMouth Comments (0)

Twitter Search is Not Search

Twitter’s search is pretty much useless for research. Twitter’s search is not search at all, in the Google sense, but instead it is database query with hard coded limits. Unlink Google, which can render a search result page out of hundreds of millions for a given search query in under half a second, [...]

2009 07 08 BlahBlog BlogMouth
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Twitter Verified Account Fail

How do you verify something that is fake? How do you verify an impostor? You can’t say, ‘yup, that is the real fake McCoy, the genuine impostor article, the real counterfeit deal.’ How can you verify that the fake Steve Jobs is really the Fake Steve Jobs? If there is one [...]

2009 07 07 BlahBlog BlogMouth
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The 4-Hour Workweek and The Mexican Fisherman

During the first half of The 4-Hour Workweek Tim Ferriss spends a lot of time making the case that he is a self help douche bag, in the classic sense of the word. The first half of his book, he talks about how he bended the rules on a martial arts competition to win [...]

2009 07 07 BlahBlog BlogMouth Comments (0)

Twitter Haiku

One of my favorite hashtags on Twitter is #haiku. Every once in a while, when I a bored or need some inspiration, I search twitter for recent haiku tweets. Here are some of my favorite that I have collected over the time.

@Baron_waffles: trying to figure / out the mystery which is / the [...]

2009 07 04 BlahBlog BlogMouth Comments (0)

Some Expensive On The Job Training

I came across the following business quote from Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him.
- Thomas J. Watson/IBM founder

A similar mistake happened at a previous high [...]

2009 06 16 BlahBlog BlogMouth Comments (0)