“There are very few times and places we really have the appropriate energy level, tools, and uninterrupted time frames to work on some of our “most important” work. The rest of the day, we shouldn’t be feeling guilty that we’re not working on “job one.” Rather, we should be maximizing our productivity by picking things to do (that we’re going to do anyway, sometime) that match the situation.”
My two and a half year old just came up to me holding a rectangle.
“Look Daddy, my phone!” she said holding out the shape.
Placing it in front of her face, she next said, “Say Cheese. Click”
Then running up to her mom she said, “Look, the pictures have telephones…”
Kodak moments captured by Samsung phones?
——Margot Fonteyn
Last year, Mavis Staples, at seventy-one, teamed up with Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of Wilco, for her Grammy-winning album, “You Are Not Alone.” On October 1st, she’ll be sitting down with Lawrence Wright at the New Yorker Festival to talk about her sixty-year career and she’ll also be singing some songs. This is an event you do not want to miss! Click here to purchase tickets.
Growing up in a city of skyscrapers, I would love, just love to see something like this realized. Neat. There are more details and pics located in the link in the title.
Awesome way to help get employees involved and interested in how their devices work, perhaps even increase overall tech literacy. On the other hand, a potential support nightmare… Would love to see some copies of active policies and some implementation stories.
Verne G. Kopytoff via the NY Times
Some companies have even surrendered to what is being called the consumerization of I.T. At Kraft Foods, the I.T. department’s involvement in choosing technology for employees is limited to handing out a stipend. Employees use the money to buy whatever laptop they want from Best Buy, Amazon.com or the local Apple store.
“We heard from people saying, ‘How come I have better equipment at home?’ ” said Mike Cunningham, chief technology officer for Kraft Foods. “We said, hey, we can address that.”
Encouraging employees to buy their own laptops, or bring their mobile phones and iPads from home, is gaining traction in the workplace. A survey published on Thursday by Forrester Research found that 48 percent of information workers buy smartphones for work without considering what their I.T. department supports. By being more flexible, companies are hoping that workers will be more comfortable with their devices and therefore more productive.
“Bring your own device” policies, as they are called, are also shifting the balance of power among electronics makers. Manufacturers good at selling to consumers are increasingly gaining the upper hand, while those focused on bulk corporate sales are slipping.
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I was at Costco the other day and was walking down the pharmacy isle when I remembered that I had to buy some more razor blades, you know the kind, triple blade, tiny little lubricating strip, the kind that you attached to a handle that vibrated. It works well.
But as I was walking over to pull the package of blades from its shelf I felt a weird and familiar feeling. I couldn’t quite place it at first.
And then I it pieced it together. It was the same sort of squeamish gut punch I felt after seeing the “tens” digit on a gas pump go to a new number I had never seen go to before. When $20 something became $30 and then when $30 something became $40.
And staring back at me in the pharmacy isle was that same number. And these were the discounted big box store kind. It occurred to me that it cost me the same to shave my face as it did to fill my tank and go 300 plus miles. Or 40 bucks for 20 blades?
They’re kidding, right?
Too kewl. The photo, the thought, and the level of effort it once took.
All this would fit in your pocket now
The photo shows the busy catalog card distribution office at the Library of Congress. There’s no date on the photographic print. Recently, we needed to determine when the photo was taken, so out came my magnifying glass. (LOC: Picture This blog)
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OMG. Engineer rapelling down the Washington Monument to check for damage from this summer’s quake in Virginia is heart palpitation-inducing.
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