Respected entrepreneur wrote about a new project they’re working on. Surprised to find smack in the core of ‘here’s the problem we’re solving for: customers want to do x because of y or z‘ – this assumption that customers’ reasons for wanting to do this thing are binary – their reason is either this or that. I’m one of these customers, in fact; my J Alfred Prufrock response:
And turning toward the window, say:
“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.”
At homogenized corporate office, a walk around the building to stretch my legs. To make it attractive to company tenants, the building owner arranged an artificial ‘park’ (I guess all parks are artificial – perhaps I’m just being snobbish here) between the buildings. Blast of Santa Ana winds woke me up to the physical world with something for four of the five senses – Continue reading
Reviewing an upcoming show of Henri Matisse’s paper cut-out artwork the critic, describing the pieces, wrote ‘seaweeds wave and swallows soar’ – sending me off on an image search of the artist’s waving seaweeds. I hadn’t until this point been much interested in Matisse’s work – but have long been interested in the various shapes that seaweeds take. A quick search did not disappoint.
Coworker sends me a Dilbert cartoon in the morning. Me: “Ha ha – yep, that’s you all right.” We laugh, work goes on. Later that same day: he stops by my desk to comment on a recent document I wrote that he’s been using for some marketing materials and says, completely forgetting this morning’s exchange, “Great documentation – I love it when the requirements are all there.” As in, I love it when your completed requirements have complete requirements.….um, yeah. So today I got to be Wally.
Hamlet Act IV, Scene II (clue to this blog’s tagline)
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