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style spy - extra tidbits for AFW 2009

Stephanie Fraide wrote 1 week ago: tweets, status updates and a general shout out to the world concerning AFW2009 : additional parties … more →

Tags: Art, Austin, Design, event, Fashion, fashion week, Jewelry, Texas, Apricot Lane

no-poo update: the next

auntiehallie wrote 3 months ago: SuperG generally resists my hippie-leaning personal care regimens, such as homemade tea-tree- and al … more →

Tags: Ranting, Practical Application

no-poo attempted for first time by total hippie

auntiehallie wrote 4 months ago: UPDATE: there are more reasons all the time to avoid personal-care products, i see. so. i think i … more →

Tags: Practical Application

there's always somewhere to go from here

auntiehallie wrote 4 months ago: a friend and i were discussing this recently – there are always some steps to take toward sust … more →

Tags: Practical Application

PM Quote of the Day -- Albert Einstein

Paul Ritchie wrote 4 months ago: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius … more →

Tags: Methodology, Complexity, PM Quote of the Day, Albert Einstein, simplicity

'gardening without work: for the busy, the aging, and the indolent'

auntiehallie wrote 5 months ago: indolent = constitutionally lazy.  i’ll save you looking it up; i had to.  and i’m the b … more →

Tags: Practical Application

New Leader Focus Area -- Creatively Wielding Occam's Razor

Paul Ritchie wrote 5 months ago: I’m wrapping up this first series about what goes into taking over a new organization (earlier … more →

Tags: leadership, Turnarounds, Complexity, Harvard Business Review, Succession, Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert, Hernan Saenz, new Leaders

the Man and principles of radical mediocrity2 comments

auntiehallie wrote 5 months ago: [originally posted 30 April 2008] to kick off my 2008 blogging life, starting laughably late here at … more →

Tags: Philosophy

Creating user interfaces another way8 comments

jt wrote 6 months ago: The paragraph about the user interface generator in my last post, or my other recent attempt to expl … more →

Tags: Ones And Zeros, mdd, MDM, mdm-server, mdm-workbench, ui, uig, UML, User Interface Generator

Parsimony....or the Duh Solution

Kelly wrote 7 months ago: I’m a big fan of the law of parsimony.  You know, the rule that says the simplest of two or mo … more →

Tags: Random Ramblings & Rants, Bailout, Big Three, Keep it simple, Ben Bernanke, homeowners, mortgage, bank regulations, warnings of economic crisis

On Parsimony1 comment

Dan wrote 7 months ago: While we’re on the subject of my parsimony, I’d like to share with our readers my unique … more →

Tags: capitalism, Food, Frugality, Game Theory, Strategy

Bitch is you tweakin'?8 comments

Mike wrote 7 months ago: Dan did something a few weeks ago that requires documentation and recognition. Pointing out the str … more →

Tags: Coffee, Frugality

The principle of parsimony in science

David Hone wrote 1 year ago: The principle of parsimony (also known as Ockham’s Razor) is a fundamental aspect of science, yet is … more →

Tags: Practical Palaeontology, Science, Cladistics

Simpler is Better: The Law of Parsimony...

Billh wrote 1 year ago: …which is lex parsimoniae in Latin, is often written “entia non sunt multiplicanda prate … more →

Tags: Consulting, experience?, Law, Occam, Razor

Social Networks and metaphors du jure...

txjhb wrote 1 year ago: Edge.com Douglas Rushkoff “Social Networks Are Like the Eye” A Talk with Nicholas Chri … more →

Tags: Social Networks, analysis of behavior, facebook, christakis, MySpace, Conditioning, Learning, behvior, Integration

She Got The Way To Move Me, Cherry

Veronica wrote 1 year ago: i took a break before posting because only losers spend more than 5 hours a day on the internet, so … more →

Tags: labels, LOLCats, Social Cohesion

At what point do we cast away Ockham's Razor?6 comments

arthurvandelay wrote 1 year ago: OzAtheist poses a great question: “What would convince you that God is real?” I don … more →

Tags: Atheism, blogs, Religion, OzAtheist, methodological naturalism

Recycle by Thrifting

bombshellomatic wrote 1 year ago: Thrifting is one of my passions! Recently, I picked up some household treasures while out thrifting. … more →

Tags: Greener Living, Buffet, Frank Lloyd Wright, mid century design, Rugs, stilllife, Table, thrifting

OUCH! Occam's Razor can be painful!

truthtable wrote 2 years ago: January 25, 2007.  Day 97.  But it cannot have been six days since last I wrote.  Can it?  I guess i … more →

Tags: Alcoholism, Shaving