Donald Norman’s definition, from his new book, Living With Complexity, due out in October 2010.
Have not looked around much, but I have the feeling that it could be useful for something, sometime:
“Daytum helps you collect, categorize, and communicate your everyday data.”
Fascinating detective work, and a fascinating look into the world of electronics manufacturing.
In the same vein as the VC’s look at investment return, Mind Your Decisions has a nice look at ROI vs IRR, and why Internal Rate of Return is the one you actually want to look at.
“The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.
“The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.”
Investing $400,000 and getting $100,000 a year back does NOT give you a 25% ROI, at least not right off the bat. Here’s why. Duh.
(For my own reference: doubtful many other folks will find it interesting)
I don’t make the rules…
I just live comfortably beneath them.
A History of Home Values: historical prices from 1890 to 2006. The run-up to 2006 should be somewhat alarming. :)
This looks like a great resource for when you can’t (or don’t want to) replace a connector with a better one like a weatherpack style. Restoration heaven.
