In which I decide if I should do something by doing it.
In which I decide if I should do something by doing it.
Lively @ 2021 By : Template Sell.
One thing that specialists do, and generalists tend to do less, is cede knowledge about certain domains to experts. When the Honda repair expert tells you it’s time for a new transmission, you accept it, albeit perhaps after getting a second opinion from another Honda or transmission expert. When this happens in the realm of […]
I just bounced from a video in which John Salley claimed that Magic was the one who blackballed Isiah Thomas from the Dream Team to this NBA TV piece about Magic’s relationship with Thomas. A couple of observations here. I agree with Salley that the Bad Boys, at least by 1991, weren’t all that bad. […]
I was reading this article on how JDM cars vary from U.S. imports, and ran across the notion that they are conversation-starters. With whom, I wondered, would I be starting up a conversation about Japanese Domestic Model performance cars? Some 26-year-old gearhead who understands more about the perfect wheelbase for drifting than I understand about […]
I now have 20 license managers installed on my system for audio editing software and plugins. This covers far more than 20 publishers, because some of the managers (e.g., iLok) cover lots of plugin developers. Generally I view this as near-madness, but IK Multimedia’s Authorization Manager is so well-executed and thorough that I’m not even […]
It is difficult to accurately summarize the breadth of activities explored and mastered by the 17th century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. Inventor, composer, geographer, geologist, Egyptologist, historian, adventurer, philosopher, proprietor of one of the first public museums, physicist, mathematician, naturalist, astronomer, archaeologist, author of more than 40 published works: Kircher was one of the preeminent […]
Germ theory encouraged the reduction of diseases to simple interactions between microrganism [sic] and host, without the need for the elaborate attention to environmental influences, diet, climate, ventilation, and so on that were essential to earlier understandings of health and disease. Harvard’s CURIOUSity Collections Topic to explore: It seems possible to contend that the more […]
Try essay questions like this if you want to engage teenagers: The “drift tax” is neither a tax, nor is it specific to drifting. Discuss.
I love the idea of the infographic below, but it fails spectacularly on a couple of information design points. First, and worst, it distorts the values it intends to communicate by hiding parts of the graphic for the larger numbers, thus distorting the visual scale. So, the bifurcated needly (130 million lives saved) is visually […]
Clean, fresh, and local beef changes diets and lives But the salient fact about missionaries is that they have a mission, and that’s where you begin to see what Dan saw. Because Farmer Emmet is definitely on a mission. To get a glimpse of this calling, look back a few decades when his approach to […]
Following are a few sample pieces written in a food/lifestyle vein for Gwinnett Magazine. This seems related… I also wrote a ton of advertorial for Beverage Superstore, one of our advertisers. Example here:
