Technology AMD's new 7nm Zen 2 microprocessors a strong choice for most desktop computer users When I last built a desktop computer, I chose an Intel processor. Starting on July 7, 2019, I would choose an AMD.
Leadership 5 Books for Leadership in 2019 This month, I reconnected with a five books about leadership that remain relevant in 2019.
Leadership Keeping that field clean "Avoid, mitigate, transfer, and accept" are the four generic risk response strategies. Here is a concrete example.
Leadership Book review: "Endurance" by Scott Kelly Incidentally, any team captain, manager, or leader is likely to appreciate Kelly’s accounts of communications and interactions among the astronauts and cosmonauts. "Endurance," without promising to be a book on management or leadership, delivers the stuff of real-life experience and wisdom.
Technology An Apple e-writer? The direct financial results of manufacturing and commercializing a high-quality e-writer would probably be unimpressive, but the creative output and accompanying consumer goodwill could be magnificent.
Leadership 3 tools for better meetings Whether you are in charge of meetings or just attending them, you can take steps to level-up your meeting performance. Here are three tools to consider: planning, paper, and problem perception.
Leadership Understanding the political communicators Understanding agenda-setting, framing, and priming gives us power and agency in our hypercommunicative world. The fear of the unknown has an upside: concepts become more comfortable when they are named.
Leadership Federal government contractor priorities in a nutshell Deliver, recommend, and capture, and the support of those functions, summarizes what government contractors do every day.
Stories from Senegal I am in Senegal. To learn more about this American's experiences in Senegal, please visit my travel blog at be.halberesford.com.
Technology Review: the least expensive phone I found at a phone shop in Senegal While its low price might suggest an unremarkable experience, this phone has surprised me in two ways.
Technology Case study: choosing open source versus proprietary software In our last post, we learned how to change a image's background to transparent using ImageMagick. Hundreds of software programs could have done this. Why did we choose ImageMagick?
Technology How to make an image's background transparent using ImageMagick The following instructions explain how to install ImageMagick on your PC and turn the image's white background transparent. Non-PC instructions (Mac OS X, iOS, Unix) are similar.
Technology What killer apps have in common The basic usefulness of the computer is inextricably linked to its ability to model some informational or physical reality.
Leadership Feeling stuck in a job? You may be freer than you think. While this tropical beach scenario is a fiction, its parallels to jobs and careers are real.
Technology 7 ways to build a website Imagine you wanted to create a simple "Hello, World!" web page today. Here are seven ways you could do it.
Leadership Teamwork and the Omelette Principle Effective teamwork is an eternal key to organizational success. We do more together. Remember the *Omelette Principle*, and be the humble executive.
Technology Review: the Windows Subsystem for Linux The Windows Subsystem for Linux gives PC-based developers and power users an option to replace a plethora of tools (VMs, dual-boot setups, SSH clients, SFTP clients) with a single, faster, simpler solution. It also lowers the barriers to becoming a developer.
Leadership What software and vinegar volcanoes have in common Today, anyone with an Internet connection who recognizes that their initiative is *temporary* and resulting in a *unique* output can grab from a large toolbox of project management knowledge, right off the shelf.
