Having recently been tinkering with coding for the first time in many years, I am reminded how there are different reasons for something not to work. I start out on a project but don’t know how the programming language works or what the computer hardware expects to hear from the program software. Through trial and […]
In Seth Godin’s post today, he uses an example of a fuel conservation problem to illustrate the practical limitations and pitfalls of coming across logic (in this case, arithmetic): A simple quiz for smart marketers: Let’s say your goal is to reduce gasoline consumption. And let’s say there are only two kinds of cars in […]
Here’s a lesson from a university in how not to support your employees. For those of you in the academic world, nothing here will surprise you (you may accuse me of toning down the story, even). But for anyone in business, I hope at the very least this typical story will cure you of any grass-is-greener (or […]