Statistics total: 63 books unique authors (including co-authors): 61 (31 women, 30 men) fiction-nonfiction: 47-16 (about 75%/25%) re-reads: 4 graphic novels: 8 ebooks: 9 genres: 19 distinct genres translated to English: 5 series: 23 books were...
We've all seen spam social media profiles with avatars from stock photos, real users' profiles, and random images. For some spammers, that has perhaps become too much work. What if you could instead click a button, right click to save, then...
“…as a wonderful singer once remarked: ‘An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.’” Nathaniel Mackey, Bedouin Hornbook As in 2020, in the last year I read a lot of science fiction. It's really interesting to see how the scope of...
Courtesy of a very fun 8-year-old, this activity is great for filling a little time in a creative way. It could also be used as an icebreaker or as an ideation warm-up. First, divide a drawing surface into a number of cells. If it's just you and...
Finnegan's Wake (1939). Book 1, Episode 7: He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal argument among...
I wrote and published this on an internal wiki earlier this year. There are times when you need to show an entire page in a screenshot. Instead of capturing the page section by section and pasting each together, you can use a feature in the...
2020 was a good year for reading. Madeline Ashby, Company Town (2016) One of a number of books on this list that I found browsing through the ebooks available thanks to my local library system. A mystery that replaces a proper detective with a...
Client ideas for change or improvement are almost always an indicator of their investment. It can be an investment in the product itself. It can also be an investment in some meaningful aspect of organizational culture or operations to which the...
Governments can do things at scale, especially things that tie into our shared understanding of life and society. For example, any entity with resources and a wide theater of activity can collect large and important data sets — but it’s generally...
Traditions are often thought of as connective, a way of carrying the past into the present. But their character as rituals makes them very powerful demarcations, too. If they connect you and your ancestors, traditions can also be a reminder that...