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Yesterday, Seth Godin blogged about going beyond “good enough,” if you’re trying to do something extraordinary.
Today, WebWorkerDaily blogged about the joys of “satisficing” and settling for “good enough.”
And my dad always says “the enemy of ‘good’ is ‘better’,” such that if you have something good, many times you screw it up by trying to make [...]

As a youngster, I did the things normal youngsters would do. I went to school, church, camp, scout meetings. At all of these places, if I did what was expected, many times I’d get a gold foil star.
When you’re very young, the gold foil star itself is the reward. Do something good, [...]

If you were king, would you fire everyone, close the company, and open a donut stand tomorrow? If you were king, would you give everyone on your staff an extra week of vacation and a top-of-the-line iPod? If you were king, would you tell Microsoft to bugger off? If you were king, [...]

This weekend, the wife suggested we go as a family to see the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
I’d never heard of it, so I googled using the searchbox in Firefox. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, and just typed “road to ter” and up popped some suggestions:

Of course, the movie is named Bridge to Terabithia, not [...]

My good friend Brian “I love a good tamale” McCallister apparently blogged about a blog entry that Hernri wrote about an IM conversation he had with Brian.
That’s so meta.
They both made the point that they haven’t enjoyed blogging because it felt like they were writing articles. It gets tiring sounding pedagogical all the time.
But [...]

Wandered by the bookstore tonight, and picked up a few books from the business section. Sat down and read Leadership and Self-Deception from cover-to-cover. It is only 170 pages, and the idea could probably be boiled down into two dozen. But the presentment of the material was quite well-done and engaging.
The table [...]