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Chaosophistication – the subtle art of change
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Visual thinking examples about topics Big and Small
Recently I came across two examples of my favorite subject - How Visual Thinking and Visual communication is more adept at presenting "Big" or "complicated" ideas and stories than just text or spoken word. Don't get me wrong, I still love reading, but there is definitely something significant occurring in the modern world. With the increased amount of data that the Average Developed World citizien consumes, more and more of this information simply needs to be captured and communicated in visual ways in order to...
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Smart Companies know when to say goodbye
Google made the right move here. Wave was revolutionary. And it had potential. But a failed product launch is failed product launch. Knowing when to pull a product and not to invest in the marketing and continuing development of it is the mark of a brilliantly mature company. I am sure we will all end up using elements of wave as time moves on, but as an independent product there are 2 dozens reasons why it didn't work.
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Complexity and Simplicity, Difficulty, Ease
Our problem at Everbread is difficult. I mean the problem our product Haystack solves. It's also complex. To imagine how complex just look at this presentation from ITA one of our competitors. I was describing our Rotate into the Product Training program where new developers start in Client Integration for 2 months, move to Infrastucture (Operations) and then to Maintenance and Debug before getting to touch the core code. MY good friend who is a smart guy says to me: "If your product takes 6 months to get good...
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Iphone Region settings tip
If you are an expat or just borrowing an iPhone which did not cone from the USA you might be struggling with something that troubled me for almost 2 years. How to change the default search engine for Safari. I don't mean selecting a different provider. There are only two and they are listed under Safari settings. No. I mean what can you do if google search in Safari always comes up as google.dk or google.es? It's simple just change your international region under the General Settings Page. Voilà!
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biz-technologist, data lover who dotes on his family, plays with tech. Europhile, travel junkie, startup-addict, CTO @ Flextrip (Tours & Activities Tech); Founding CTO of Everbread (Travel Search Tech).
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biz-technologist, data lover who dotes on his family, plays with tech. Europhile, travel junkie, startup-addict, CTO @ Flextrip (Tours & Activities Tech); Founding CTO of Everbread (Travel Search Tech).
