The Disappearing Designator [product-labeling] [accessibility issues]
Day: January 25, 2021
garden-path sentences
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: [Language Arts] [ambiguity] [intentional deception]
article: Consultant’s guide to raising children
(“free-up capacity by doing less of what you normally do”) (“sacrificing near-term and relatively certain outcome for the possibility of a longer-term step-change”) Here is the link. keywords: [big sustained changes] [tough compromise] [mls trumping gls]
article: The Uber-All Economy of the Future
(“a business model that twins personal services with technology”) (“a bottom-up view of change”) (“the most important dynamic is happening at the level of the firm”) (“capturing unrealized value from assets”) Here is the link. keywords: [work] [money] [finance] [transformation] [transition]
quote
“Winning new work is an ongoing imperative.” -- Jim McCarthy (corollary: Continuous improvement is an ongoing imperative.)
the Great Commission
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. keywords: [Christianity] [missionaries] [missionary] [Evangelism]
Links from Perfect Numbers to Fractals
Links from Perfect Numbers to Fractals keywords: [Mathematics] [Number Theory]
Alexander Woollcott – patron saint of mls
Based on the quotes below, I am nominating Alexander Woollcott as the patron saint of mls. “There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.” -- Alexander Woollcott “Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!” -- Alexander Woollcott
warm-hearted vulgarity
“The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity.” -- Raymond Chandler cf: Alexander Woollcott often greeted friends with “Hello, Repulsive.”. keywords: [attitude] [conduct] [psychology]