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Confidence without Ego
I was talking with a friend yesterday about ego, and I was re-reminded of the late Robert (Bob) Silbey — an extraordinary leader I had the privilege of knowing when I was a professor at MIT. My...
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Context is King
I appreciated this post by Adam Duvander on the 6th law. There’s nothing like having someone explain back to you what you once thought you understood years ago … -JM
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Always Being Told That You Have Potential
Yesterday I had lunch with an old friend — Bob Sabiston — the computer graphics animator that helped Richard Linklater make his groundbreaking film Waking Life. We talked about how blown away we were...
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Commencement Memories
I’ve noted a habit within me around commencement time every year — which is, naturally, for my mind to drift back to my own commencement experience. There’s one thing I remember quite clearly that...
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Simply Imperfect
A friend gave me this book by Robin Griggs Lawrence entitled “Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House.” The book speaks to the Japanese concept of beauty as elegant instances of imperfection....
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Design and Venture .Org
I’ve started a new blog to think about the intersection of “Design and Venture” (Venture = Venture Capital) … design, technology, and business are colliding in a powerful way right now. How exciting! -JM
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Laws of Simplicity, Revisited
Way, way back … I separated the Laws of Simplicity into two categories: aesthetic thinking vs logical thinking. The idea was too complex for me to wrestle with at the time, but now I’m pulling the...
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Dr. Daniel Cabrera’s LOS for Emergency Medicine
I was pleased and honored to see this adaptation by Dr. Daniel Cabrera at Mayo Clinic on applying the Laws of Simplicity to the emergency medicine space. The link is here: http://mayocl.in/1rI8GuA...
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Do Both
DO BOTH. This is from a June 07, 2005 post on my original Simplicity blog that a reader found still exists on the Wayback Machine here. Brand is an inoperable asset for the customer. It doesn’t make...
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ANAME, CNAME, ALIAS, DNS
Today I fought DNS settings and spent maybe a couple of hours trying to untangle the mystery behind why I couldn’t do something that I thought should be really simple (namely route an alias to a root...
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