Starbucks' 3-Hour Downtime
This might be about a better cup of coffee, but there’s a lot more to it than that, and it’s pretty slick. Shutting down your operation creates buzz.
This might be about a better cup of coffee, but there’s a lot more to it than that, and it’s pretty slick. Shutting down your operation creates buzz.
The Church Marketing Sucks weblog hits the nail on the head with this one. Travis and I discovered this closure first-hand — much to our surprise — and even spread some of the buzz to our friends. The CMS blog breaks down the applications for web applications and ministries alike.
The 30-Day Sex Challenge
Now that’s some relevancy in the church.
Big Clusters and Deferred Repair
Using spares allows maintenance to be deferred, and thus scheduled and completed more efficiently. So how do you figure out what you need? Richard Elling weighs in with some analysis. The engineer’s life is a life full of trade-offs.
7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
Some good common sense about why many of the creature comforts of modern society are doing more harm than good.
Six Principles for Making New Things
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
Paul Graham
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
Paul Graham
Lessons from 15 Compassion International Bloggers
Using experience and technology, empower people to tell their story and give a call to action.
13 Feb 08 — Hobby #2
My Utmost For His Highest - Taking the Initiative Against Depression
When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things-things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things-things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
Better Than Free
An excellent article that looks at eight things that have worth because they can not be mass-duplicated: Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage, Findability.