From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Humbled by Digital Advice

by jakeybro on November 30, 2007


I have so much to learn. Thankfully, there are some trailblazers who are great guides.

Digital planning requires an additional level of skills that were highlighted today in an excellent post from Iain Tait. His points are essential, insightful and thought provoking.

As I work to better understand how to integrate planning into a small B2B-focused agency, his top tips for digital planning add some valuable perspective.

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Emergence

November 30, 2007

This weekend I listened to a podcast of Radio Lab from back in August. It was a discussion of the science of emergence. Sounds eerily similar to my previous post. I must just be catching on. Anyway, the idea that a seemingly chaotic, disorganized mass can be more intelligent and become more quickly organized than [...]

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Of Ants and Humans

November 19, 2007

Carl Zimmer reported in the New York Times over the weekend that scientists have a better idea as to why ants and other swarming animals can work so efficiently. Turns out, according to Iain Couzin, a mathematical biologist at Princeton and Oxford, that there are a series of trails ants leave and rules they follow [...]

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Crushing Defeat

November 17, 2007

My soccer team just lost the last game of the season. It was a squad we had defeated handily earlier in the year. Sometimes things just don’t click and this was one of those times.
I just have to keep reminding myself that it isn’t professional. We didn’t just lose a Euro match. It’s just old [...]

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Question of the Day

November 17, 2007

What are we doing here?
Questions are important to me. Like staying up all night for my project the other night, I hope I never take curiosity for granted. Lately, my questions have verged on the existential. Nothing new for a fellow in the waning days of his third decade.

Northern Planner had an interesting post on [...]

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I Hope I Never Get Used To It

November 16, 2007

Pulled an all-nighter last night. Someone wise once said that the amount of time it takes to accomplish a task expands in direct relation to the deadline. Unfortunately, that was the case with my project yesterday. The nice thing is the hallucinations are all-natural. Dude.

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