Archive for September, 2005

OK. Enough. They’re not insurgents anymore. They’re not rebels. They’re not freedom fighters. They’re not even terrorists. They’re not that good. They are butchers. Butchers. Butchers. The blood of children is on their hands. Women are their victims. Men strolling on the street are their targets. They have gone beyond the pale. They are...
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Teresa and I (and the kids) just came back from a Michael Card concert. It was sponsored by WorldServe, and featured Pastor Elisha, the leader of something like 2000 house churches in Vietnam. It’s illegal to for Christians to evangelize in Vietnam, so Pastor Elisha has spent many years in prison – 4 prisons,...
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Tonight I heard the one of the best definitions of leadership I’ve ever encountered: “Leadership is the ability to achieve your goals through the efforts of others.” – Pastor Elisha (a Vietnamese pastor) It’s perhaps a bit one-sided … and you’d have to be careful that this kind of leadership wouldn’t deteriorate into manipulation,...
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I recently went through some Lean Transformation training provided by Simpler Consulting, and one of the facilitators said that “best is the evil enemy of good.” I was a little surprised by that, because I’ve always thought that good is the enemy of best … people are satisfied with ‘good,’ and so they don’t...
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Wow – it’s been 11 years since graducation. Incredible. SFU is holding an alumni celebration of 40 years of existence … staggeringly young for a university with 20-30 thousand students.
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I haven’t been blogging with quite the old pace, mostly due to being busy, but also due to taking some down time in the evenings that I haven’t taken for over 6 months. But checking my blog, postings, comments, etc. tonight, I found the oddest post. (Visitors can post, but I have to review...
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Rastin is blogging, and it’s A Good Thingâ„¢. At very least, you now have an outlet for those feelings of unrequited love, Rastin. OK, maybe that’s overstating the case a little.
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Teresa took this photo of me, Ethan, Aidan (the youngest) and my dad a month or so ago during Ethan’s 6th birthday party:
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Saw this nugget in a comment on Business Week: Don’t forget the basic formula for success–first, best, or different. If you’re launching a new product or service, those are good words to remember.
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Dave is blogging again. I guess once you’ve had your first hit, you’re hooked. I see that, as of 30 minutes ago, he is not at home. Bad boy, cool app. My only question, Dave, is: why Movable Type? Was it preinstalled or something? WordPress is clearly superior (ok, I’m somewhat biased) and certainly...
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So Edgar Bronfman (the guy for whom the statement the best way to make a small fortune is to start with a big fortune could have been created) wants a piece of iPod sales: Mr. Bronfman said the music industry should not have to use its content to promote the sale of digital music...
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Wouldn’t you like to have your own store online, with your own products? No, not the kind of store that is really someone else’s, filled with someone else’s products, that you just advertise and hope somebody somewhere buys something on so you can take a couple nickels of the sale. Your stuff, your store....
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As ongoing readers of this blog may or may not know, I’m starting up a new piece/division/value stream/part of Premier, the company I’ve worked for over the past 11 years. I knew this going in, but I know it now: starting up is not easy to do. Vision, research, product development, marketing strategy, marketing...
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A couple of days ago, my wife Teresa told our youngest son Aidan that she loved his race car pajamas. She added that she’d like to have pajamas as nice as his. Today Aidan put on his boots and his jacket, and headed towards the garage. He had his hand on the door when...
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Yahoo! has a story about a man who built up 40,000 volts of static electricity in his clothes … “We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,” I wonder if this...
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