How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions, Marketing and Advertising Article - Inc. Article (7)
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But anyway, back to Austin, the Harvard professor. His point is that incentive plans based on measuring performance always backfire. Not sometimes. Always. What you measure is inevitably a proxy for the outcome you want, and even though you may think that all you have to do is tweak the incentives to boost sales, you can't. It's not going to work. Because people have brains and are endlessly creative when it comes to improving their ...
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df said:
Joel often has readable writing.
Giz Explains: Illustrated Guide to Smartphone OSes (27)
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You're more likely than ever to buy a smartphone, not just because they do so much more than dumb feature phones, with real email, decent web browsing and downloadable applications, but because they're cheaper than ever. With the exception of some expensive ass unlocked-but-unsubisized European models, you generally don't have to pay more than $300 for a balls-to-the-wall smartphone—though the voice plan plus data fees can easily run you $80 or more per month. Here's ...
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Rahul Gaitonde said:
Great review + comparison. Breadth over depth.
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Mark said:
What an excellent comparison of mobile OSes.
She's real fine, my 419 (1)
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I got this email in my inbox. Not sure where it started, but it's an important message for all Americans.Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me ...
A few signs of sanity (1)
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The always articulate Glenn Greenwald weighs in on wall street:What is more intrinsically corrupt than allowing people to engage in high-reward/no-risk capitalism -- where they reap tens of millions of dollars and more every year while their reckless gambles are paying off only to then have the Government shift their losses to the citizenry at large once their schemes collapse? We've retroactively created a win-only system where the wealthiest corporations and their shareholders are free ...
The sky is always falling (1)
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The story of this presidency, repeating as tragedy and farce: Crisis X is mounting and will cause the end of Western Civilization. Emergency Plan Y must be put into effect this week or we are all DOOMED. Anyone who looks askance at Y is dangerously naive and will be the first up against the wall when X hits the fan.Y has been, variously, putting domestic communications in the hands of the NSA, the PATRIOT Act, ...
We won't get fooled again (3)
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There's this great Who song that you should play before reading this post. One of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. They sang about their generation and the magic bus, told Tommy to go to the mirror, but today's song is about not getting fooled again. Flash back to the United Nations on 2/5/03. An impressive almost Presidential Secretary of State, Colin Powell, delivering some chilling news, not coming right out and ...
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steven.vorefamily.net said:
Dream on, Dave - you know they won't step down. How often does a politician with power give it up without being forced to. I agree that it would be 'the right thing' to do, but they're way past doing what's "right" for anyone but themselves.
Calling Bullshit (6)
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We. Are. Not. Going. To. Die. On. Wednesday. The maximum energy the particles generated by the LHC (7TeV) get up to is many orders of magnitude below the maximum energy of cosmic rays that hit the Earth's upper atmosphere from space every fricking day. None of them have created black holes and gobbled up the planet, or turned us all into strange matter. Nor have they done ditto to any cosmic bodies we can see, ...
Red Light Cameras Don't Work (34)
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Interesting: the solution to one problem causes another. "The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. "Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections." Comprehensive studies from North Carolina, Virginia, and Ontario have all reported cameras are associated with increases in crashes. The study by the Virginia ...
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"In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners."
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Wolfger said:
Gotta love capitalism, eh? Screw public safety! Let's make us some money!
Preventing Ownerless Activities -- the "Blame the Computer" process modeling antipattern - part 2 (1)
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In a prior post, I described a process modeling antipattern which I called "Blame the Computer." The feedback helped me to realize that there's a deeper problem that we need to consider: alignment of ownership between process and IT. Ownership of a process We all do this. We say things that are true at one level of abstraction, but counterproductive or simply not true at another. One good example: "the business owns business process." Obviously ...
New eyes on an old favorite (1)
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A couple of years ago, Phillippe Krutchen 'reinterpreted' the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects (link). I saw it again recently and I have some new appreciation for the things I saw there. I most enjoyed this bit. (Note that the number is a reference to the original Tao tablet that PK used when creating his interpretation.) It strongly supports the concept that I most believe in: Adoption is the Most Important Attribute ...
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