'Occam' Category
Unplanned Outage
No mysterious disappearances. I’m just swamped. I’ve got more ideas than I know what to do with, and no time to flesh them out. Some are doozies. And I have had a ball commenting in various places.
Also, things have been a bit slow on the home front, as my 5-year-old PC is showing her age. [...]Too Simple
If there is a unifying there here, it’s in explaining the seemingly complex in the most simple way possible. Occam’s Razor is a means of comparing multiple explanations or theories, with the notion that the simplest is likely the truth. However, many people are guiding themselves by the fallacy that the simplest explanation is the [...]
Ugly and Rough
“Ugly” and “rough” - at least in the English language - sound sort of like they are. They certainly don’t roll off the tongue like “pretty” and “smooth.” There’s a whole chicken-and-egg argument that we could make about whether ugly-sounding words describe ugly things, or if we associate the ugliness of a word [...]
Making Pearls
In the last couple of years with the Red Cross, I have been involved in some of the strangest crisis communications challenges you can imagine. Notice, I didn’t say “most intense” or “most difficult” or even “most noteworthy.” In most of these cases, we’re talking about a local chapter and its relationship to [...]
Occam’s Hors D’ Oeuvres
Meme alert!
Meme alert!
Meme alert!
Push and shove your way to the nearest exits!
I’ve been tagged.
Some really smart guy named Jeremiah Owyang has classified a bunch of internet users as “media snackers.”not in it for the “long haul”
you want quick, easily digestible bits
you want to consume it where you want, when you want, and how you want
you [...]
