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The AwkEng Is Inspired by Ted Lasso (and also Takes Photos Around Somerville)
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The trees are blooming in Somerville, so I took my kids on a "photo walk" and took pictures around the neighborhood. (They had a toddler ca...
Bigger Than Usual Book Report
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Larger than usual book report today and the writeups are longer than usual. I'll include my summary for Turn The Ship Around, which gets my...
Book Summary: Start With Why
I read Start With Why because it's referenced by several others books I've read recently. It's good, but save yourself a lot of time and watch Simo...
Books Summary: Continuous Discovery Habits
I read Continuous Discovery Habits after going down a rabbit hole looking for a better way to organize information gathered from customer intervie...
Book Summary: Built to Last
I read Built to Last with the knowledge that Jim Collins had worked with Jeff Bezos in Amazon's early days, and it's clear to me after reading thi...
Book Summary: When Coffee and Kale Compete
When Coffee and Kale Compete is going on my recommend list. It takes a lot of ideas from other books and clarifies and refines them. It even calls ...
Book Summary: Turn the Ship Around
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I want to highly recommend Turn the Ship Around. In a nutshell, the book is about intentionally designing systems into an organization or c...
Collegiate Level Popsicle Sticks with the AwkEng
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Today's post is about designing a collegiate level course in popsicle stick bridge building. The idea has been in my head for years, but th...
The AwkEng is an Art Sleuth
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Today's post is about art and a proud dad moment. I do have a short list of posts I want to write, including one on Voltmeter Clock BOM scr...
The AwkEng Thinks About Vickrey Auctions
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Today's post is about Vickrey Auctions, and figuring out how to make it feasible to run ultra-small batches of Clocks. The Voltmeter C...
The AwkEng Thinks About Pay Scale Systems
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Since reading Radical Candor, I've been thinking about performance reviews and pay scale systems. The punchline is that I don't think that ...
The AwkEng Sets Up a High Efficiency Work Cell
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Today's post continues the previous Yak Shaving theme from reorganizing the basement, but this time it's with the intention of revisiting t...