Agile New Year, Black Swan, The Shrine of St. Taleb
After the pre-holiday week of baking, cooking, wrapping, shopping, and cleaning, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised to be laid low by a bout of migraines just after Christmas (which I will heretofore refer to as malaise because it sounds better). It...
Agile, Agile New Year, Black Swan, Practical Magic Project Management, Start Here
Edited to add a list of all the posts in this series at the end… This is reworked and expanded version of one of my early posts on Practical Magic Project Management: Agile Magic. …In The Black Swan, our hero Taleb talks about the value of constant...
Black Swan, Risk and Issue Management
The last post was my Empire Strikes Back… this is Return of the Jedi (but no Ewoks).Keep Calm (and Carry On)Since the election happened there’s been a lot of, well, flailing around. But just because some things are bad right now (lessons learned implies...
Black Swan, Risk and Issue Management
I’ve been on a bit of a media blackout sabbatical. After major ancestor work on Halloween, I had a quick work trip to our Northern neighbors (yes, I came back). Then a pile of mundane day job work as well as some magical self care.So, let’s get to it....
Black Swan, Sustain-ability
By the way, this is officially my 100th post!Our house came with a new, but very cheap, electric coil stove. After six year of heavy use (including a great deal of canning, which involves large heavy pots full of water and glass jars filled with stuff) it began to...
Black Swan, Sustain-ability
Back in 2010, I picked up a book from the library called: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. The title has been changed (to be more buzz-word worthy I suppose) but I prefer the original. This is a book that would naturally appeal to...
