Heard it before, “they have Marketing down to a science”. Having a process, and some rules to follow, doesn’t make it a science. It is still an art. A craft, in its best case. I am an Engineer by training, and my career took me to do a lot of...
We sometimes shun the “amateur”. We tend to think that the “professional”, the one that gets paid for doing the same thing, should be better. We even use the word that way. When something is made to spec, with all the expectations met, we say...
We were taking a walk around the downtown area, with paved, wide walkways. As we approached one of the cobblestone crossings, a couple came zipping by on a rental electric scooter. He was pushing the throttle to its limit, while she was hanging on to him, not...
I was looking for a suitable image for “Learn”. So I went to one of my favorite stock image sources and typed the word in. “Learn”. I got a bunch of classroom images. It hit me then, that’s not the way learning happens. You can be taught...
I enjoy doing things with my hands because, besides the satisfaction of producing something tangible, I usually enter a sort of a Zen meditative state while doing so. And my observations about the process many times transcend the task at hand. It occurred to me while...
The “Five Whys” I learned about this many moons ago, when I was involved with technical support. The basic principle is that the observed symptoms are almost never what are really causing the issue and therefore, they are not the right thing to focus on to...
