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Trip to Itapuã
On Saturday, 12 Mar 2016, my friend Felipe and I set out to visit a wildlife refuge near Itapuã, RS, Brazil. It’s known for it’s monkeys and beaches. Likes(2)Dislikes(0) Continue reading
The Stress Equation
Stress equals reality minus expectations. Continue reading
Punctuated Growth
I’ve been pondering the contribution of major life changes to growth. We have several opportunities for these, but not all of them happen to all of us. Continue reading
Backlog – Steven Pinker
A backlog item is a topic that I’d like to spend more quality time on but can’t at the moment. You’ll be able to find backlog items in the backlog list. See the menu in the upper right. In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has … Continue reading
Relationship with Investors
An on-going ponder for me is the difference between managers and entrepreneurs as classified by The E-Myth Revisited. One way to distinguish between the two may be by observing their relationship to the investors in their companies. A manager behaves like an employee of the company. This is particularly true … Continue reading
Piet’s Survival Kit
Pacific Northwest Survival Kit Continue reading
At Last – A Max Energy Cost Target
You may remember that about 6 months ago I mentioned asking Gail1 about her alternative energy model. Her view is that energy that cannot be used and make a profit won’t be used – thus supply and demand mean that energy prices go down after the peak not up. This … Continue reading
Lithium
Some projections for the next 5 years during which the EV vs. petrol battle will be played out, as well as the grid storage transition. Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Continue reading
ACOILUSD
ACOILUSD is a framework that can help you to ask the right questions when developing a complete product. A complete product is more than just the widget that you may be trying to sell, it’s the complete experience that the customer goes through when engaging with your widget; from when they first hear about it until they don’t want it anymore. Continue reading
Engineering 101
All technologies are nothing more than applying energy to rearrange atoms and/or bits1 within a system of constraints. Engineering is the discipline of understanding and applying those constraints in order to create systems that solve problems. Beyond this you’re specializing. Likes(0)Dislikes(0) Continue reading