Posts Tagged ‘education’
My first job out of college, on my first day of work, I arrived to a desk empty save for a foot-high stack of manuals and a note from the man who was to be my mentor, saying he would be on vacation the next two weeks, and that I was to try to familiarize [...]
This is something I wrote for a question on LinkedIn. In that thread, others recommended Excel as your software of choice, though SPSS and SAS are more industry standards; some recommended The Cartoon Guide to Statistics as a text. I recommend them too.
I will tell anyone within the sound of my voice that businesses fail for reasons just like the reasons engineered systems fail. That’s a point hard to get across because nobody understands engineering except engineers. LOL
But here’s the short, loaded answer about how failure works:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth [...]
Everybody who jumps on board with social media will use it in their own way. That’s pretty much the way the Internet has always been.
Postcard marketing is a very useful way to notify folks of events. Why? You might well ask. The reason is simple: the postcard is something your target audience can hold, carry it around with ‘em, always being reminded that your thing is coming up! And if the postcard is attractive and compelling, and they are [...]
Keturah Monroe has a vision.
We are building a nation: by land, by sea, by air… and by self.
A friend of mine complains as follows:
…hey, I couldn’t figure out how to turn off my IPod without searching the Internet for instructions – I like instructions, not all this stuff is intuitive to me – since I’m getting so damn OLD. I gotta go find a 12-year-old to help me figure this out!
It’s useful to have Company Principles, or Core Values, if you want your new hires to remember what it is you do.
Some people say you should have them on a plaque in a visible location, thus making it as difficult as possible for the new hires to ignore.
Here are four things [...]
OK, I admit that Twitter and Usenet aren’t the same thing. With most readers I could get away with a statement like that, because even though Usenet still exists, the overwhelming majority of people on the Internet do not know what it is or where to find it. Technically, all I need to know to [...]
I’ve been in the classroom teaching math for a couple years. Admittedly one of my great weaknesses is impatience with kids who don’t understand what they will use math for in “real life.” (And yeah, I know they only ask that because they don’t want to do the homework.) But this is an important consideration [...]
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