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Sustainability at Atomic Object

On March 27, 2013 Local First held its 5th Annual Sustainable Business Conference. I was invited to speak on a panel about sustainability initiatives in business. My fellow panelists were Marcia Rapp of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Kris Spaulding of Brewery Vivant, and Matt VanSweden of Integrated Architecture. Bill Smith of CompuCraft was our panel’s moderator.

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Cross-pollinating Innovation Across the Organization

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I believe frameworks that foster cross-pollination of ideas work better than top-down policy implementation when it comes to spreading knowledge and innovation across an organization.

The Need to Share Knowledge and Innovation

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If Time Is our Most Valuable Resource, Trust Is our Second

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I saw a number of great talks this year at South by Southwest. One talk, in particular, stands out in my memory: Behind the Iron Curtain.

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“Have you ever thought about learning to program?”

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“Have you ever thought about learning to program?”

That’s the first sentence in a recent blog post by the Swedish game company Mojang, creator of the hit game, Minecraft. The post describes their recent and upcoming work to create a virtual environment where beginners can explore the power of programming on a low-cost, open platform. While this may not seem interesting to anyone unfamiliar with Minecraft or the Raspberry Pi, the combination with early programming learning is a big deal to me. Here’s why.

A Sampling: Workplace Cultures Around the World

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Steelcase’s recent issue of 360° Magazine, titled Culture Code, shares a big body of research on workplace culture across eleven countries. The following is a sampling of three interesting workplace culture perspectives (by country) from this research.

Inspiration: The Water Clocks of Bernard Gitton

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Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s museum: an immense clock that kept time with the flow of water through glass tubes.

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What is devops ?

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I`m parsing the responses of the Deploying Drupal survey I started a couple of months ago (more on that later)
One of the questions in the survey is “What is devops” , apparently when you ask a zillion people (ok ok, just a large bunch of Tweeps..), …

15 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

Devops at REA – Enhancing the Culture

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Last night I discussed “Devops at REA” at the Devops Melbourne meetup. It was a great turnout, with some great conversions afterwards.
The next meetup is tentatively scheduled for January 2012 and I would really like to hear from sm…

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