by Pete Abilla on September 19, 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I love good design — creative and design excellence is a strong personal interest of mine. I love when things are easy to understand, aesthetically pleasing, and cognitively ordered. I am especially impressed with good industrial design, demonstrated by Apple and the Dyson [...]
by Pete Abilla on September 15, 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Yes, I did it. I was becoming addicted to my work. You can imagine it: a trigger-finger, device-focused man, typing away while walking down the hall, while at the kids’ soccer games, in meetings, while shopping, and in any possible venue. No more. [...]
by Pete Abilla on September 14, 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn A very basic economic framework that I haven’t seen used enough is The Profit Tree: For the rest of the article, I’ll use the following conventions: Π = Profit R = Revenue P = Price Q = Quantity C = Costs FC = [...]
by Pete Abilla on September 13, 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Typical to most mormons, I have a big family. Yup, we have 5 biological kids. Atypical, however, is that my wife is white, I’m Filipino, and we’ll be adopting 2 African American kids in the next little while. We’re excited and are learning [...]
by Pete Abilla on September 12, 2006
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Regarding the Physics of Queueing, or the science of lines, we really only control the number of servers and the queue discipline (LIFO, FIFO, etc.). But, in the realm of operations improvement, we can improve the process, while not being able to control [...]
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