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- blog post: A Mindless Worker is a Happy Worker http://tinyurl.com/yhfclzf 3 days ago
- .@flowingdata http://goo.gl/w1c2 chewing a donut 30 times versus 1 time: object is still a donut, there has to be a qualitative difference in reply to flowingdata 3 days ago
- .@flowingdata do you agree with this chart showing inverse relationship between being over weight and chews per bite? http://goo.gl/w1c2 3 days ago
- @flowchainsensei bob marshall – your consultant-speak is confusing; not sure you could explain your own tweet in reply to flowchainsensei 3 days ago
- @flinchbaugh @flowchainsensei – I disagree: creating humane software is not the responsibility of the customer – it's ours #lean @azaaza in reply to flinchbaugh 4 days ago
- blog post: How to Add Value http://tinyurl.com/y9v5kbm 4 days ago
- http://goo.gl/goYB 34 ways to add value #lean #employment #career #skills 4 days ago
- "In truth, immediately didn’t understand the essence. After re-reading all at once became clear dear" – wisdom of everyday SPAM #spam #inbox 4 days ago
- i second that: "I would have to say that the vast majority of jelly belly's are nasty" /via @chadblodgett 4 days ago
- .@flinchbaugh Toyoda said it himself: chasing growth beyond the development of his people; and, a quality czar? 6 days ago
- I'm thrilled that Sully (Captain Sullenberger) gave such public support for #Lean in his #HIMSS10 speech yesterday /via @LeanBlog 6 days ago
- my brother: "the Toyota brake design would do well at nascar". joking aside, Toyota didn't live the values they helped to invent #lean 6 days ago
- blog post: Gretchen Rubin – Part II http://tinyurl.com/yawu398 6 days ago
- blog post: Gretchen Rubin – Part I http://tinyurl.com/ygqgrzl 1 week ago
- .@timeback lantech misses the point: "watch the work" is akin to managing by walking around – both miss the point – goal is to gain empathy in reply to timeback 1 week ago
- amazing visualization /via @thrivebetter snake oil gone wild – http://goo.gl/D8xQ – weight loss & a cure for about everything 1 week ago
- If the people do not feel happy & cannot be made to feel happy, that company does not deserve to exist -Ishikawa /via @jchyip 1 week ago
- many products & services are infected with featuritis; the cure? subtraction that helps the customer feel like a superstar, successful 1 week ago
- celebrated black history month at BYU; we go every year – no picture of Tiger Woods this year on the wall of African American role models 1 week ago
- son: "I hope there are no monsters in your car." me: "no monsters, just a lot garbage." 1 week ago
- worst.shower.ever – someone used all the hot water #coldshower #ice #shock #hypothermia #goosebumps #H2O 1 week ago
- Larry King: "Do you blame the engineers?" Akio Toyoda: "I blame myself." Strong. /via @matthewemay 2 weeks ago
- .@krianbalma that would be a good question for Jason Fried here: http://bit.ly/94ewsB in reply to krianbalma 2 weeks ago
- we never run away from our problems or pretend we don't notice them – Akio Toyoda #lean #respectforpeople #humane 2 weeks ago
- all of a sudden, itunes won't launch on windows 7 – can anybody help? it worked a few days ago and nothing has changed since then. 2 weeks ago
- congratulations to @stilenius, new vp of commerce at google 2 weeks ago
- .@innovate http://bit.ly/94ewsB – Ask Jason Fried your questions #in #lean @37signals @JasonFried #design 2 weeks ago
- .@kfinkjensen here is the interview post with @jasonfried http://tinyurl.com/yhduvgp of @37signals 2 weeks ago
- blog post: Less is Less with Jason Fried http://tinyurl.com/yhduvgp 3 weeks ago
- http://bit.ly/94ewsB – Ask Jason Fried your questions #in #lean @37signals @JasonFried #design 3 weeks ago
- whoa – iPhone autocorrected "for sure" to "foshizzle". unrelated: when is my boy @snoopdogg coming back to Utah? 3 weeks ago
- Double McTwist 1260 3 weeks ago
- men's figure skating has a mardi gras / bourbon street theme. unrelated: has anyone seen my tight stretchy pants? #manchild #olympics 3 weeks ago
- learning #jCarousel and #jQuery – great stuff 3 weeks ago
- men's figure skating is a bit creepy #unclerico #manchild #nacholibre 3 weeks ago
- some 311 & digable planets while doing dishes & washing baby bottles – gotta balance the rough and soft sides of me 3 weeks ago
- .@innovate is amazon or apple innovative? investigate the level of #lean or #sixsigma that are at those organizations, you'll be surprised in reply to innovate 3 weeks ago
- will be interviewing @jasonfried on @shmula soon – on customer development, lean thinking, subtraction, & new @37signals book #rework 3 weeks ago
- .@TimALeanJourney @flinchbaugh @leanblog yes, discrete event simulation is not perfect but could have predicted the chance of this happening in reply to TimALeanJourney 3 weeks ago
- @flinchbaugh @leanblog @timaleanjourney yes on F=MA on solids; liquid as padding could be innovative here – accelerating in same direction in reply to flinchbaugh 3 weeks ago
- .@LeanBlog @flinchbaugh @timaleanjourney I've never gone 90 mph on ice, but engineering I know: exposed metal columns after a tight curve? in reply to LeanBlog 3 weeks ago
- .@leanstekel near-sightedness: theory of constraints is about flow, agnostic of material – physical, information, or monetary – flow. in reply to leanstekel 3 weeks ago
- .@LeanBlog @flinchbaugh @timaleanjourney I wonder what impact test will show on bare metal vs padding thickness needed to prevent death in reply to LeanBlog 3 weeks ago
- listening to luscious jackson & remembering beastie boys' store on telegraph avenue, X-Large: those were great days & I was so young then 3 weeks ago
- .@marciamarcia of unterest: the author of "the happiness project" @gretchenrubin is taking questions here: http://tinyurl.com/yeyqnrt in reply to marciamarcia 3 weeks ago
- .@MarkOOakes the author of "the happiness project" is taking questions here: http://tinyurl.com/yeyqnrt in reply to MarkOOakes 3 weeks ago
- $GSK CEO, Andrew Witty, is trying to make a difference – refreshing: http://tinyurl.com/yhuc9pr #gemba 3 weeks ago
- blog post: Nothing Else You Need To Do http://tinyurl.com/yf9fua9 2010-02-10
- blog post: Ask Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Interview http://tinyurl.com/yeyqnrt 2010-02-10
- .@zen_habits interview with @gretchenrubin on the happiness project – ask her a question: http://bit.ly/d7w5Tz 2010-02-10
- go to http://bit.ly/d7w5Tz to ask @gretchenrubin a question – ask her something about the happiness project #happy #happinessproject 2010-02-10
- today had over 1000 visitors to this old, random post on wisdom teeth removal – crazy – http://mee.bo/dm6YJH #dentist #wisdomteeth 2010-02-09
- .@chrisbrogan @brooklynhilary @davesaunders in 50 years, it'll be cool to have jayz play the halftime show #superbowl in reply to chrisbrogan 2010-02-07
- .@LeanBlog irony: "say no to sloganeering" is a slogan in reply to LeanBlog 2010-02-07
- taxes, done. baby, asleep. 2010-02-07
- .@jbernoff here is bezos demonstrating root cause analysis (5 whys) – learn, no pointing fingers, why not who: http://bit.ly/424OLr in reply to jbernoff 2010-02-06
- this #superbowl isn't about football, but about lifting the spirit of new orleans #saints #colts #superbowlads #football 2010-02-06
- RT: what's your excuse today? http://is.gd/7Pftk /via @thrivebetter 2010-02-06
- got back from the used book store – that's the one place I hope will never be replaced by bits & bytes #oldschool 2010-02-04
- blog post: Cost Savings for a Fortune 500 Company http://tinyurl.com/yhqnk5d 2010-02-04
- many requests to advertise on http://www.shmula.com – auto insurance & weight loss – why? #insurance #weightloss #suppressant #appetite 2010-02-03
- just dial "0" ("zero") http://bit.ly/9NZ0Hn 2010-02-03
- "wrong things righter" or "right things wronger" – what say ye? 2010-02-02
- "expensive metabolism" describes my children accurately 2010-02-01
- my Obama "yes we can" PowerPoint deck is super popular on slideshare right now – funny – http://is.gd/7sjwz 2010-01-31
- physiological one-piece flow: eat one, poo one. #lean 2010-01-31
- blog post: Freedom within Framework http://tinyurl.com/yfhulk9 2010-01-29
- in the gemba http://bit.ly/9Fyr2e 2010-01-29
- square shaped oatmeal cookies – messed up but they are tasty http://twitpic.com/108rx1 2010-01-28
- blog post: In Their Natural Environment http://tinyurl.com/y95288w 2010-01-28
- blog post: Staring at Acoustic Ceiling Tiles http://tinyurl.com/yfa388k 2010-01-25
- Queueing in the Emergency Room (ER) http://bit.ly/85w9mh 2010-01-24
- you don't like your diaper changed & I don't like to change poopies at 3AM; 53 days old, you're yelling at me: can't we agree to disagree? 2010-01-22
- .@pkedrosky here's an article on queueing theory & the emergency room, showing hospitals that post live er wait times http://bit.ly/85w9mh in reply to pkedrosky 2010-01-21
- blog post: Emergency Room (ER) Wait Times http://tinyurl.com/ya7oxyj 2010-01-21
- blog post: Lean Thinking and the Amazon Kindle http://tinyurl.com/ye8e47e 2010-01-21
- Jeff Bezos demonstrates the 5-why exercise http://bit.ly/424OLr #in #lean #leanstartup 2010-01-20
- .@davemcclure @ericries amen: http://goo.gl/YBjc – most investors have not spent time in the Gemba #lean #leanstartup 2010-01-20
- .@billgates – welcome! 2010-01-19
- Toyota is an orphaned mother: organizations practicing #lean think they invented it – that's OK – ownership is the intention #leanstartup 2010-01-19
- Awesome – What if Martin Luther King used Twitter: http://is.gd/6wSyA 2010-01-18
- the assembly line & slaughter houses, airplane manufacturing & medicine: other examples of to-be-innovations adopted from other industries? 2010-01-17
- deconstructing the supply chain of the Kindle & Google Nexus One, similar to my iPhone supply chain post http://bit.ly/tSZ6N #in #kindle 2010-01-15
- eyes tired, feeding the baby, watching CNN 2010-01-15
- .@BSlobodow here's a new response to an old tweet: I mapped the iPhone Supply Chain – http://bit.ly/tSZ6N in reply to BSlobodow 2010-01-12
- .@timeback quick research – lean practitioners in action sports retail: Burton, DC Shoes, Channel Islands, Arc'Teryx, Patagonia, Columbia in reply to timeback 2010-01-09
- at daughter & son's basketball game: team sports is such a great & practical way to learn leadership & followership 2010-01-09
- .@LeanBlog did you give atul gawande a copy of your book, "lean hospitals"? in reply to LeanBlog 2010-01-07
- which suppliers in outdoor & action sports market (hard goods & soft goods) practice the principles of lean thinking (lean manufacturing)? 2010-01-06
- .@LeanBlog excellent interview with Atul Gawande on @npr about Checklists – medicine is catching-up & #Lean is going to play a big part in reply to LeanBlog 2010-01-05
- .@tom_peters please check out "Lean Hospitals" – a wonderful book by my good friend Mark Graban (@leanblog) #lean in reply to tom_peters 2010-01-05
- .@tom_peters "smart" is the problem: without humility, a simple tool like checklists (from Lean Thinking) seems simplistic though effective in reply to tom_peters 2010-01-05
- lazily watching Intervention on A&E. unreleted: can someone please take these doritos away from me! 2010-01-04
- .@hnshah @ericries @timothyfitz here's an interview with Mary poppendieck on lean for software you might enjoy http://bit.ly/2n82hO #lean in reply to hnshah 2010-01-04
- .@kissmetrics @hnshah here's an interview with @azaaza, Jef's son, that might interest you: http://bit.ly/1uCGE in reply to KISSmetrics 2010-01-04
- @LeanBlog a real priority line would be a multi-server queue with fewer validation steps; the DFW approach is a play on queueing psychology in reply to LeanBlog 2010-01-04
- .@KevinMSmith another perspective on starting with the customer and working backwards http://bit.ly/wwrO #bezos #lean in reply to KevinMSmith 2010-01-03
- .@jasecoop here's an article I wrote that has gained popularity within the service design world http://bit.ly/9cosn #servicedesign #lean in reply to jasecoop 2010-01-02
- @wimrampen @designthinkers your article is a lot like this: http://bit.ly/9cosn in reply to wimrampen 2010-01-02
- "respect for the human" is what I learned at toyota, but outsiders use "people" instead: the difference is subtle, but very important. 2010-01-01
- .@sacca happy poo, dear http://twitpic.com/w7zat 2010-01-01
- Process = Discipline is in the set of {Innovation} http://tinyurl.com/yzoqza9 /via @ericries 2009-12-31
- .@bhc3 @chuckfrey what is not well-known is the influence Toyota & Lean has been on Bezos & Amazon http://bit.ly/424OLr – hugely influential in reply to bhc3 2009-12-29
- .@flinchbaugh honored & humbled to be considered in your best of 2009 blog posts http://bit.ly/7FKRZt 2009-12-29
- vivaldi on a sunday afternoon 2009-12-27
- just saw avatar 3D: three thumbs up 2009-12-26
- RT: If all consumer products were as reliable & reusable as trash cans we would have a lot less trash #irony /via @johnmaeda #lean 2009-12-26
- i just said "double redundancy" in a sentence on Christmas night, while talking with my wife, while she was feeding the baby #blackswan 2009-12-26
- craved greasy spoon on Christmas Eve – went to Denny's. Me: "you're open?". Denny's: "Dood, no holiday will close us down!" 2009-12-25
- wow, my former boss at @eBay is now the COO at @rackspace – congratulations! http://is.gd/5xTi0 2009-12-22
- @bhc3 Toyota implements 1 milion employee ideas per year: a culture built on lean thinking is an innovative one #lean #toyota #innovate in reply to bhc3 2009-12-22
- eyes are burning: need. to. sleep. 2009-12-22
- for your holiday reading pleasure – a huge series on queueing theory: http://is.gd/5wB2a 2009-12-21
- wow, my barack obama "yes we can" powerpoint deck parody is the most talked about document on slideshare http://is.gd/5vt9s 2009-12-20
- me, baby, 1:50 am mst, burp, burp http://twitpic.com/u5cc5 2009-12-19
- If more companies adopted common-sense accounting or lean accounting, we'd have better managed companies and fewer failures #lean 2009-12-18
- my 6-part interview with tony hsieh, CEO of @zappos: http://bit.ly/13tq0 2009-12-17
- Here's my 5-part series interview with Lean Thinker and Head of User Experience at Mozilla, Aza Raskin (@azaaza): http://bit.ly/1uCGE 2009-12-17
- @TigerDirectcom good deals, but terrible experience with customer service. one word: nightmare. 2009-12-15
- lean thinking plays a big role in the development of the amazon kindle http://bit.ly/4RPMuM 2009-12-12
- everyday poka-yoke #mistake proof #Toyota #lean http://twitpic.com/stfvv 2009-12-09
- don't think I bought pants with holes premade – got this hole the old fashioned way – I'm not glamrock on purpose http://twitpic.com/slhuo 2009-12-07
- liquid gold = baby formula: someone needs to start a commodity exchange on these super expensive goods #enfamil #similac #lalecheleague 2009-12-05
- @flinchbaugh @leanblog a litmus test: let a 16 yr old see if design & labels were instructive enough by itself, what would they say & do? in reply to flinchbaugh 2009-12-04
- strange hospital advertisement: "Dr. James Wendell – an OBGYN You Should Know. Call Him Today" #weird 2009-12-03
- confusing hospital visual management http://twitpic.com/rxjjy 2009-12-02
- spending the night at the hospital with the new baby & can't figure out how to make this bed decline #backpain http://twitpic.com/rxhi6 2009-12-02
- sleeping at the hospital tonight with the baby & i can't figure out how to make this bed decline #backache #fail http://twitpic.com/rxhi7 2009-12-02
- listen to customer service – findings there can tell us much about the overall health of a company & it's products & services #lean 2009-12-02
- saw at hospital enroute to maternity room, biohazard sign on floor, image doesn't build confidence – need #lean http://twitpic.com/rph6f 2009-12-01
- another blessing through adoption – 7 lbs even: http://twitpic.com/rmdnq 2009-11-30
- hilarious cereal flowchart: http://is.gd/57t72 2009-11-29
- Sync your files online and across computers with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://bit.ly/30XfXp 2009-11-29
- @TimALeanJourney sounds like this article I wrote last year http://bit.ly/17Bsx in reply to TimALeanJourney 2009-11-29
- just told my 3 boys "no lightsabers at the breakfast table" #yoda #r2d2 #chewbacca #lightsaber #anakin #starwars 2009-11-26
- Kanban Family Job Chart: http://bit.ly/7DIkhj 2009-11-25
- @timeback no – the job is to clean the inside of the car – my car is so old that it's not really worth washing… in reply to timeback 2009-11-25
- blog post: Kanban Family Job Chart http://tinyurl.com/yfhnqbv 2009-11-25
- wishing I were the chairman of kitchen stadium #food #ironchef 2009-11-24
- a humble open letter from @krianbalma & @zappos: http://bit.ly/F0GNe 2009-11-24
- blog post: Extraordinary Response http://tinyurl.com/ygqvtvm 2009-11-24
- RT @alshalloway: paradigm shifts are accomplished by looking at familiar differently 2009-11-23
- @johnmaeda yes and no: lean thinking teaches us that slow is precisely slow because of waste; remove the waste, then velocity increases in reply to johnmaeda 2009-11-23
- blog post: Complacency, Urgency, and Change http://tinyurl.com/yc85u8c 2009-11-22
- the blind side – wow, 2.5 thumbs up! 2009-11-21
- RT @rcinstitute fear leads to war; love leads to creation 2009-11-21
- spoiler alert: I'm going to see blind side later today, I have a feeling it's about adoption 2009-11-21
- tried to go on a bike ride, too cold, so now on treadmill 2009-11-21
- I'm really tired today. Unrelated: I went to bed around 1 AM last night. 2009-11-20
- … @ericries I wasn't there, but I heard last night's presentation at MIT was awesome – nice work! #lean 2009-11-20
- headhunter contacted me – Comscore, VP Survey Process Efficiency & Productivity, Toronto / Lean is a required job skill – Lean is spreading! 2009-11-20
- RT @leanblog: #leanstartup waste = meetings w/no decisions, documents that aren't read, building product that nobody wants #MIT #lean 2009-11-19
- RT @leanblog: #leanstartup #lean in any lean setting – it's all about customer value – effectiveness over efficiency! 2009-11-19
- blog post: Shining Metal Pointing Direction http://tinyurl.com/yzf98g9 2009-11-19
- Be Everybody, But Nobody to the Customer http://tinyurl.com/yjcxgfd 2009-11-17
- I'm really loving @dropbox http://is.gd/4XhAh 2009-11-17
- blog post: Homogeneous Innovation http://tinyurl.com/yjcxgfd 2009-11-17
- learning from animals: all aggression is fear-based. 2009-11-16
- crowdsourcing definitions – in 140 characters or less: what is operational excellence? 2009-11-16
- driving a minivan keeps me grounded 2009-11-16
- frustration-free packaging: where are you? http://twitpic.com/ppl8a 2009-11-15
- on animal planet, lady receives 16 viles of anti-venom, $2k each: I'd start an anti-venom business but I'm super scared of snakes 2009-11-15
- @fredwilson let me know your address and size & I'll see what we can do for you @backcountry in reply to fredwilson 2009-11-15
- @alshalloway personal experience (company unnamed) – andon cords everywhere, but nobody pulls them: http://is.gd/4VfQm in reply to alshalloway 2009-11-14
- @sacca you are a manchild (admittedly, i read all 4 books – actually pretty good) in reply to sacca 2009-11-14
- homogenous innovation: stop thinking for yourself-do what popular media, authors, & consultants say-be everybody but nobody to the customer 2009-11-14
- Toyota is an orphaned mother http://is.gd/4UAwH 2009-11-13
- would you recommend using odesk? @odesk #software #outsourcing 2009-11-13
- @brianbuck awesome! in reply to brianbuck 2009-11-13
- @alshalloway practice over theory is what taiichi ohno taught; internally at Toyota, we were not as dogmatic as those on the outside are in reply to alshalloway 2009-11-12
- @zappos not your mistake, but a design flaw: we need more devices that prevents the human from making a mistake; poka-yoke for shower knobs in reply to zappos 2009-11-12
- … @bokardo, simplicity is elusive, because we are natural complexifiers – we create our own stumbling blocks in reply to bokardo 2009-11-12
- blog post: Dichotomous Thinking at IDEO No More http://tinyurl.com/ye74r7o 2009-11-11
- how to cook a turkey, from my 5 year old: http://twitpic.com/p17pz 2009-11-10
- nothing irritates me more than godin or the scores of godin fan boys with a mancrush on him, but this is actually good: http://is.gd/4RZpc 2009-11-10
- a transformation story http://is.gd/4RKMY 2009-11-10
- of course amazon.com would write a blog post about Lean Thinking and Queueing Theory: http://ow.ly/zQ9W 2009-11-09
- @WhenGrowthStall you're missing a lot of the story: (fulfillment by amazon + prime + merchants program) = massive competitive advantage in reply to WhenGrowthStall 2009-11-08
- @noel_g I'll take a look for that A3 – it's here somewhere in reply to noel_g 2009-11-08
- RT @leanblog: Starbucks' Howard Schultz says Lean Thinking "drives margin growth & customer & partner satisfaction" http://bit.ly/3h1cLZ 2009-11-08
- Andres Segovia on a Sunday morning 2009-11-08
- @johnmaeda & the quality of the response is directly proportional to the criticized emotional intelligence & self awareness in reply to johnmaeda 2009-11-08
- bridal vail falls http://twitpic.com/onijf 2009-11-07
- hasta la vista, el customer http://is.gd/4PjRH 2009-11-06
- who in congress or the senate is an active proponent of child adoption? #adoption #fostercare #birthmother 2009-11-06
- reading about @Carla_Zilka's book on restructuring http://bit.ly/3EFNJp and james reason's book on human error http://bit.ly/4fpDJ 2009-11-06
- obeya standup http://twitpic.com/ohp97 2009-11-06
- school lunch, done: http://twitpic.com/ohf46 2009-11-06
- a major component in a marketer's toolkit, the a/b test, really comes from toyota's genichi taguchi, who invented design of experiments 2009-11-05
- received an email today, the content of which was 100% devoid of humility – a clear sign of insecurity and low leadership capability 2009-11-04
- what i'm reading http://bit.ly/1CcWdF 2009-11-04
- RT @leanblog: To build on Deming's lessons, the root cause of most organizational problems is "fear" – fear also prevents innovation 2009-11-03
- RT @tonyhawk: A few your favorite Tweeps are attending our Vegas event – @sacca @kevinrose & @zappos. You can too: http://is.gd/4Mocl 2009-11-03
- there is wisdom in deconstruction 2009-11-03
- differentiation should always be in the context of what the customer values; otherwise, you'll be different – alright – but nobody will care 2009-11-03
- @ECBaskin received my startercards today – awesome! (startercards.com) 2009-11-02
- how does something become an industry standard? is it: marketing driven? "pull" by the people? "pushed" by influential people/companies? 2009-11-02
- @pkedrosky I wonder if declining fertility rates will lead to increased child adoption rates in reply to pkedrosky 2009-11-01
- halloween inverse relationship: the bigger the house, the smaller the candy 2009-10-31
- daily kaizen http://twitpic.com/npgh8 2009-10-31
- tasteless but funny costume: I might go as Jon Goselin for halloween #jonandkatepluseight #octuplet 2009-10-31
- kaizen everywhere http://twitpic.com/noj3s 2009-10-31
- @flinchbaugh @hoshin_kanri hoshin kanri is more than organizational structure for information; its ability to effectively mobilize is key in reply to flinchbaugh 2009-10-31
- RT @ianmcall – classic bezos, customer focused, not competitor focused: "don't worry about competitors" 2009-10-30
- optimistically bouncing back from setbacks is a hallmark of leadership 2009-10-30
- malice toward non and charity for all ~Abraham Lincoln 2009-10-30
- RT @MarkOOakes: Leaders focus on Transformation. They focus on creating a 'Context' versus supplying 'Content' 2009-10-30
- vampire blood http://yfrog.com/j4bfbj 2009-10-29
- Hoshin Kanri truly gets the entire company on the same page, as it were – very powerful approach to strategic planning #lean 2009-10-28
- @johnwelshphd $GETA to release top-line AGENDA clinical trial results tomorrow http://is.gd/4GAhM in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-10-28
- simple & effective kanban, to regulate flow & release of material http://yfrog.com/09j4mkj 2009-10-28
- cool last name of the day: warrior – @padmasree, CTO of Cisco – her last name is warrior. how cool is that! 2009-10-28
- any suggestions for free software to build wireframes in? 2009-10-27
- @adoptionexpert opinion: what can be done to make the process easier for adoptive families & adoption agencies? in reply to adoptionexpert 2009-10-27
- @jmzhiser thoughts: what could be done to make the process easier for adoptive families & agencies? in reply to jmzhiser 2009-10-27
- change is psychological, concerned more with feelings & emotions rather than the intellect alone 2009-10-27
- woke up at 5AM, did my morning routine; now trying to write, but lost interest – maybe later 2009-10-26
- going to post this week on shmula.com: urgency, false sense of urgency, & complacency 2009-10-25
- lean thinking & design thinking helps us to regain the natural curiousity we all had when we were children #lean 2009-10-25
- sunday morning, vivaldi & cereal 2009-10-25
- kanban everywhere http://yfrog.com/5dxdgj 2009-10-24
- being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage ~Lao Tzu 2009-10-24
- ate at carraba's & had potato-crusted haddock – it was good http://yfrog.com/0orfhj 2009-10-23
- @chadblodgett me too – I'm pretty much missing 1 color on every property #playatmcd #monopoly #mcdonald #039;s in reply to chadblodgett 2009-10-23
- Bezos on Kaizen: http://is.gd/4×0ro 2009-10-22
- RT @LeadToday: Leaders make decisions. If you're not making & standing by the big decisions in your organization, you're not leading. 2009-10-22
- hansei: how do our processes and products make our customers feel? 2009-10-21
- @brucenussbaum the 5-why exercise is on the IDEO patented Human Centered Cards – that's actually from Taiichi Ohno & Toyota #lean #sixsigma in reply to brucenussbaum 2009-10-21
- self-evaluation: more with more, less with less, less with more, more with less http://bit.ly/5HqA 2009-10-21
- words are descriptive: the term #lean was originally coined to describe how Toyota can do everything with half of everything #ohno #toyota 2009-10-21
- @leanblog that's a violation of one piece flow, a requirement in that process step – also called "switcheroo" internally in reply to leanblog 2009-10-21
- teaching my son the virtue of trial & error & having courage to try different strategies for a math problem: trial, reflection, adjust #lean 2009-10-20
- …@metacool, interesting how the 5-why exercise is on the IDEO patented Human Centered Cards – that's actually from Taiichi Ohno & Toyota 2009-10-20
- tim brown, ceo of IDEO, reconciles lean thinking and design thinking http://is.gd/4ret2 2009-10-19
- the new @skullcandy iPhone app is super good 2009-10-18
- laying down with my 2 year old: sang 4 songs so far – please go to sleep already! 2009-10-18
- Black Swan – wow – RT @nntaleb insider traders Raj Rajaratman, Rajiv Goel & Anil Kumar were my classmates (& friends) at Wharton 2009-10-17
- @anotherschwab try birdhouse on the iphone – that's designed for tweets to be sent later in reply to anotherschwab 2009-10-17
- visual management at costco http://twitpic.com/lybip 2009-10-17
- "we need others in order to create the circumstances for the learning that we're here to generate" – beastie boys 2009-10-16
- experienced some good queueing examples this week at disneyland; will be adding to my queueing posts on shmula.com http://is.gd/4irFF 2009-10-13
- dear oriental lady, why are you wearing high heels at Disneyland? sincerely, shmula 2009-10-13
- @livestrong @livestrongceo @lancearmstrong I'm writing a book – If it ever makes a profit, I'm donating 10% to the livestrong foundation 2009-10-12
- @pincock thanks brother in reply to pincock 2009-10-12
- disneyland http://yfrog.com/2r5nrj 2009-10-12
- my new diet http://twitpic.com/lb7i4 2009-10-12
- hey, @zappos, glass is half broken in reply to zappos 2009-10-11
- long drive, enroute to disneyland http://yfrog.com/12oodgj 2009-10-11
- RT @Pogue: Toyota ad: "80% of all Toyotas sold in the last 20 years are still on the road" – the Toyota Production System is no joke #lean 2009-10-11
- fun hike, done: http://yfrog.com/0f4i2nj 2009-10-10
- @DaveHarlow @Ddawg05 @kblodg13 @dustysantafe (mom+susie) = moosie in reply to DaveHarlow 2009-10-09
- hackergotchi shmula http://yfrog.com/0ywfbzj 2009-10-09
- experimentation & knowing how stuff works (process thinking) are two key ingredients to innovation (design thinking) 2009-10-09
- false sense of optimism is a barrier: ailing companies need a strong sense of urgency & courage to face brutal facts & plan strategically 2009-10-08
- false sense of optimism: 2009-10-08
- RT my buddy @matthewemay, A Design Thinker's Reading List: http://retwt.me/tkJl 2009-10-06
- @leanblog how long are going to in SLC? Maybe we can do lunch? in reply to leanblog 2009-10-06
- pushups, situps, morning reflection: done. 2009-10-06
- spoke with homeless shelter about volunteer opportunities – not needed right now – a good sign: suggestions in salt lake city area? 2009-10-05
- RT @MarkOOakes: Money and Profits are the By-Products of GREAT companies, NOT their #1 Objective. Deliver VALUE and these will follow. 2009-10-05
- RT @LeadToday: If you're in business & you're doing everything the same way you did it last year, you might not be in business next year. 2009-10-05
- high-yield, low-maintenance, humble, and generous: I'm trying. 2009-10-04
- @cressman I'll take your tickets – I'll follow u and dm me your phone number 2009-10-02
- @JoshDance I'll take them – follow me on Twitter and DM me your number – thanks in reply to JoshDance 2009-10-02
- looking for byu football tickets for tonight – tweet me if you got 'em #byu 2009-10-02
- it's been a long time http://twitpic.com/jyycs 2009-10-02
- happy #livestrong day @lancearmstrong in reply to lancearmstrong 2009-10-02
- I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota 2009-10-01
- should i get these http://is.gd/3QMqp for my wife? 2009-10-01
- leaders are thermostats – they sense the temperature, but they also take action on dialing it up or down 2009-10-01
- @StocksMD thoughts on $GETA and $AVXT? in reply to StocksMD 2009-10-01
- @metacool Toyota Production System is amazing, but hubris even infected their quality lately – they will need to revisit their Lean roots in reply to metacool 2009-09-30
- one of my childhood friends is missing – http://is.gd/3Pkxc – please retweet & help 2009-09-30
- acting my age today: listening to a medley of the pixies and the misfits 2009-09-30
- blog post: Why Transformation Efforts Fail http://tinyurl.com/ycrsteh 2009-09-28
- two phrases to describe my son's poopy diaper: "shock & awe" and "weapon of mass destruction" 2009-09-27
- i rolled with a former SWAT officer who is taller & stronger than me – I cranked a kimura on him & I made him tapout in under 60 seconds 2009-09-27
- the most "innovative" things in my life are my iphone & pre-cooked bacon: most things are just plain vanilla but add so much quality to life 2009-09-26
- my 11 year old wants a facebook account – what say ye, twitterverse? 2009-09-26
- at a highschool football game with my kids, feeling nostalgic and super, super old 2009-09-25
- overheard my wife singing the theme song to the movie "top gun" – the '80's at it's best 2009-09-25
- at a doctor appointment http://twitpic.com/j2m8b 2009-09-25
- "doing the wrong things faster" is the strategy for some companies 2009-09-25
- @copperstl $AVXT was up on decent volume last 2 days, has 1 drug in phase 3 for melanoma, phase 2 for lung & ovarian cancer – all i know in reply to copperstl 2009-09-25
- @copperstl thoughts on $AVXT? in reply to copperstl 2009-09-25
- @stockgod thoughts on $AVXT? in reply to stockgod 2009-09-25
- blog post: Respect for People, Underutilized People, and Waste http://tinyurl.com/y88xmk5 2009-09-24
- oh no, I just realized that I'm wearing a brown shirt, brown shorts, & I have brown skin: I look like a UPS driver 2009-09-23
- blog post: Off-Topic: Wednesday Waiting Child http://tinyurl.com/kk9hk9 2009-09-23
- let's find these kids an adoptive family – please retweet http://bit.ly/2cfU1n 2009-09-23
- @Scobleizer we can use social media to help find these kids an adoptive family – please retweet http://bit.ly/2cfU1n 2009-09-23
- today, judge slowly: there's usually more to the story than we know 2009-09-22
- oh no, i accidentally lathered my back & chest with my new massive hair-growth shampoo 2009-09-22
- http://twitpic.com/imuik my 2 year old making peanut butter & jelly sandwiches: teaching children self-reliance is a good thing 2009-09-21
- playing mancala with a 4, 2, & 1 year old makes no sense, but it's fun – I guess that's the point http://twitpic.com/ilp08 2009-09-21
- just lathered my son's beautiful afro with carol's daughter leave-in conditioner http://twitpic.com/il1w8 2009-09-21
- @superfactory I hope you write about your experience – http://bit.ly/zkJy – this post got press & will be part of an upcoming book in reply to superfactory 2009-09-20
- 1 year old goalie http://twitpic.com/iinvl 2009-09-20
- open field http://twitpic.com/iifgl 2009-09-20
- family hike http://twitpic.com/igywo 2009-09-20
- http://twitpic.com/ig4yj – my daughter is campaigning for vice president! 2009-09-20
- dinner treat, me & my kids http://twitpic.com/idk8o 2009-09-19
- pre-cooked bacon is an underappreciated innovation 2009-09-18
- just installed facebook connect on http://www.shmula.com – now you can comment on shmula.com with your facebook credentials 2009-09-18
- firefighting in business isn't leadership: a leader decides what to do; a fire decides what firefighters do 2009-09-18
- cumulative diaper count: 7 2009-09-18
- cumulative diaper count: 5 2009-09-18
- diaper count: 3 2009-09-18
- I'm mister mom for 4 days, with 8 kids – we're surviving so far – I need some odwalla 2009-09-18
- @stockgod what's a good options play on $ARNA? in reply to stockgod 2009-09-18
- i just told my broker at ameritrade $AMTD that "he rocks the hizzo" 2009-09-18
- @johnwelshphd nice – i sold my $ARNA options last week for a nice profit; which broker did you use to short $ARNA? in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-09-18
- @kelflanagan companies are unaware that they push & pull their customers simultaneously http://is.gd/31bs6 in reply to kelflanagan 2009-09-17
- the triangle shape is found in almost every martial art – it's the perfect shape for leverage; same principle applies to business strategy 2009-09-17
- @ForeverCaroline @stockgod @johnwelshphd @tradehawk $GETA? in reply to ForeverCaroline 2009-09-17
- what will you signal to the customer today to show how you are different? how will your signal get pass their psychological armor? 2009-09-17
- false urgency is just as bad as complacency 2009-09-16
- overheard at my daughter's soccer game: "watch the backdoor green giants – hustle, go, go, go!" 2009-09-16
- learning about multidimensional scaling 2009-09-16
- a fellow soccer dad just asked which part of japan or china or thailand I am from – I said i'm filipino; he then said "awesome!" 2009-09-15
- {incompetence and hubris} is an odd combination I've seen in people and, unfortunately, many companies 2009-09-15
- @windley you should share your delta airlines customer service story, word of mouth can travel fast: http://is.gd/3fWXP in reply to windley 2009-09-14
- to my 2 year old: use a soft voice, nice face, not a rough attitude, & say please 2009-09-13
- overheard at the soccer game: "gimme a game face to make it happen" 2009-09-12
- early morning, 3 soccer games today 2009-09-12
- on 9/11, i was in chicago, stuck in the subway with hundreds of scared & confused passengers, thinking that we would die at any moment 2009-09-11
- just taught my 9 year old son about factor trees & extoled to him the beauty of the tree as a data structure #nerd 2009-09-10
- itunes 9 and the new iphone configurator are slick 2009-09-10
- RT @chadblodgett my bro-in-law @shmula is on the cover of BusinessQ, props! http://bit.ly/P3EfK 2009-09-10
- @KathySierra try inserting "bash shell" or "regular expression" randomly in your daily communication 2009-09-09
- at the soccer field, simultaneously watching 2 soccer games #superdad 2009-09-09
- oh no, I'm wearing the same shirt I wore yesterday; oh well, maybe no one else will notice 2009-09-09
- I'm inspired by small, quiet, charitable acts – not pretentious, no self-spotlight, but meaningful 2009-09-08
- the goal of interaction design is to reduce interaction http://is.gd/31bs6 2009-09-07
- being a delta gold medallion member has benefits: $120 overweight check-in bag fee was waived – nice 2009-09-07
- kansas city, missouri mcdonald's: help us help you – http://twitpic.com/gvtk6 – 2009-09-07
- cool lego exhibit in kansas city http://twitpic.com/gt4pi 2009-09-06
- in the change management continuum, organizations unaware that they are in a crisis (http://is.gd/2QIfn) deserve to fail: true/false? 2009-09-05
- RT @sacca: @shmula well, you'd still need to leave a dialect option for those who prefer "fo sheezy" http://bit.ly/BWoQa 2009-09-04
- in the locker room with kansas city royals pitcher, john buck http://yfrog.com/149jxj 2009-09-04
- in missouri, at a kansas city royals game http://yfrog.com/5k78utj 2009-09-04
- blog post: Turnaround and Change Management: Do Not Waste a Good Crisis http://tinyurl.com/n5v3n6 2009-09-03
- self-medication in people is a way to address symptoms not root causes; organizations self-medicate too & the implications are many, not one 2009-09-03
- what if "for sure" was mapped to "foshizzle" on the iphone: RT @sacca: I tried to type "think", iPhone suggested "thunk". 2009-09-03
- woke up to: "daddy, will you wipe me when I'm done?" – if that doesn't keep me humble, grounded, & my ego in check, I don't know what will 2009-09-03
- artificial harmony & false consensus ruin more companies than we realize 2009-09-02
- RT Congrats to @dickc on the new role. COO of Twitter. Very cool. (via @azaaza) 2009-09-02
- I wonder if nutella will ever overtake peanut butter in terms of market share 2009-09-02
- @digitalsavant you are an emotionally-starved manchild in reply to digitalsavant 2009-09-02
- my 5 year old twins, first soccer game, & they're holding hands http://twitpic.com/g5iyp 2009-09-01
- to see if your company's vision has become part of the culture ask: can the lowest-level employees articulate it & feel they are part of it? 2009-09-01
- @timeback we must be able to account for qualitative factors – such as our treatment of people: it can't just be efficiency. in reply to timeback 2009-08-31
- RT @briansolis: Brilliant! The War On Flow, 2009: Why Studies About Multitasking Are Missing The Point @stoweboyd http://is.gd/2KoHj 2009-08-31
- family walk to the park, done. big pile of dishes, not done. 2009-08-31
- @superfactory so, how does one persuade an organization to shift away from ebitda & toward free cash flow? in reply to superfactory 2009-08-31
- @superfactory I'm curious about lean accounting & your perspective on ebitda vs free cash flow in reply to superfactory 2009-08-31
- lean thinking is elusive, not because it is complex, but because of it's elegant simplicity #lean 2009-08-29
- 6 kids, 1 dad, toy isle, target 2009-08-29
- overwhelmed by a poopy diaper – hmm, it builds character 2009-08-29
- it's cold this morning, autumn is around the corner: man, isn't america beautiful! 2009-08-29
- up early on saturday: odwalla strawberry c monster – done. 2 bananas – done. bike ride – in 5 minutes. 2009-08-29
- a very under-rated aspect of strategy is the art of exclusion: http://is.gd/2EbWz 2009-08-28
- @mzeisser i have several examples; happy to share. in reply to mzeisser 2009-08-28
- you know, a little correspondence analysis never hurt anybody 2009-08-28
- drinking my odwalla superfood, sitting with the kids eating breakfast 2009-08-28
- @johnwelshphd what do you think of $AIG options puts for September? I can't find any to short, but option puts are available in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-08-28
- @johnwelshphd etrade doesn't have any shares to short – who do you suggest? thanks in advance for your advice in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-08-27
- @johnwelshphd if one were to short $FRE or $AIG at the current levels hoping it'll go to zero, how risky would that be? in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-08-27
- focusing on the customer is a simple truth, but it's not simplistic; it is common sense, but not common practice 2009-08-27
- in my previous two companies – 1 is customer-focused & the other is competitor-focused: guess which one is winning & which one is losing? 2009-08-27
- no matter how often or aggresively I shave, the moustache on my upper lip does not go away #uselesstweet 2009-08-27
- @leanblog NUMMI – an end of an era http://bit.ly/2JstGy 2009-08-27
- if you finish the day without thinking or speaking or doing something on behalf of the customer, your business is likely already in trouble 2009-08-27
- in your meetings: how many times does the word "customer" get used? what we verbalize is an outward manifestation of what we are thinking 2009-08-27
- dogpile http://twitpic.com/fe82y 2009-08-26
- playing with my kids keeps me grounded http://twitpic.com/fe4tw 2009-08-26
- @KathySierra speaking of interaction, interested in your opinion on this article on interaction & customer economics http://is.gd/2A3LK in reply to KathySierra 2009-08-26
- @johnwelshphd bought some September $ARNA call options today; do you also have a traditional long position in $ARNA? in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-08-26
- @johnwelshphd what is a smart options play for $arna? in reply to johnwelshphd 2009-08-25
- self-promotion alert: Goodbye Customer http://is.gd/2wTY3 2009-08-24
- in Q4 planning; first holiday season at backcountry.com – can't wait & hope it's a huge one 2009-08-24
- there are a lot of domain name squatters – very annoying 2009-08-23
- playing with lakin http://twitpic.com/f1pdi 2009-08-23
- today, want what you already have 2009-08-23
- @dalka tweetbacks is a great plugin for wordpress – stable and brings back the conversation to the source in reply to dalka 2009-08-23
- @Power2B you are too nice with those undeserved compliments; a book – yes, a few of my posts will be included in someone else's book in reply to Power2B 2009-08-23
- tip @Techmeme http://bit.ly/1b0ihn
, Goodbye Customer 2009-08-23 - @cydtetro it depends on the nature of those interactions, of course: http://is.gd/2uUkU in reply to cydtetro 2009-08-23
- blog post: Goodbye Customer: Loyalty, Costs, Complexity, and Recovery http://tinyurl.com/nuxp23 2009-08-22
- feeding & changing lakin http://twitpic.com/eugpk 2009-08-22
- @jowyang would love your reaction to this http://is.gd/2tusa in reply to jowyang 2009-08-22
- blog post: goodbye customer http://is.gd/2tusa 2009-08-22
- just ate a pesto vegetarian pizza from whole foods 2009-08-21
- it's friday, but thinking about the kaizen event i led a few weeks ago – so fun; need to have another one soon http://is.gd/2sQS0 2009-08-21
- putting twins to bed http://twitpic.com/estm5 2009-08-21
- trizzying out ghettotweets iPhizzle app – automatically turns yo tweets into ghetto slang – fizzunny 2009-08-21
- a friendly reminder to those listening: customers don't remember features, they remember experiences 2009-08-20
- @jowyang good luck with your next adventure – looking forward to hearing all about it in reply to jowyang 2009-08-20
- lose forever or win-back customers: which is better for business? http://is.gd/2q9ng 2009-08-20
- fire in neighbor's yard, I called 911, but we put the fire out before firetruck got here #wheresbarack 2009-08-19
- @backtype: nice work, but lately it's not picking-up on wp 2.8.4; post should have a few tweets http://is.gd/2oDXo, but none were picked-up 2009-08-19
- watching mad money: jim cramer just asked "who's your daddy?", then he said "china is everbody's daddy." 2009-08-18
- @TigerFrank okay, now try a definition that a 12 year old could understand in reply to TigerFrank 2009-08-18
- having a nice debate with a coworker: What is Strategy? Twitterverse, what say you? 2009-08-18
- on change management: people buy-in to the messenger first, before they buy-in to the message 2009-08-18
- @iSixSigma email is fine, but i'm talking about coordinated group action and word-of-mouth: stuff godin preaches, but doesn't follow in reply to iSixSigma 2009-08-18
- it'll be out in September, Utah Valley BusinessQ Magazine – shmula.com 2009-08-18
- at a photo shoot, shmula.com was voted one of the blogs in utah 2009-08-18
- blog post: Poka-Yoke Pharmaceuticals http://tinyurl.com/pfnp65 2009-08-18
- after some thought, i decided that seth godin is the definition of traditional media: he's asymetric, no conversation 2009-08-17
- played a trifecta of ring around the rosy, red light green light, & london bridges 2009-08-17
- dealing with unstructured data is frustrating & interesting – this stuff is a goldmine of information – must be tamed, understood & acted-on 2009-08-17
- looking for a public notary to help us complete our living trust – boooring 2009-08-17
- beautiful day in park city – need to do something outdoors today 2009-08-17
- breakfast with the boys http://twitpic.com/e8gti 2009-08-17
- 20 pull-ups, ~50 push-ups, done 2009-08-17
- had four people with a google.com email address subscribe to http://www.shmula.com today – coincidence? in any case, welcome. 2009-08-16
- @gglockner there aren't very many operations research geeks like us; let's connect on linkedin, here's my contact info: http://is.gd/2kAz8 2009-08-16
- my dinner: oatmeal with blueberries, raspberries, & strawberries http://twitpic.com/e71dv 2009-08-16
- carsen & dirt http://twitpic.com/e6pza 2009-08-16
- caden & his weapons http://twitpic.com/e6prk 2009-08-16
- tetherball http://twitpic.com/e6n4k 2009-08-16
- mylie eating strawberries http://twitpic.com/e6mlg 2009-08-16
- in the backyard with the kids http://twitpic.com/e6lhn 2009-08-16
- finished a good jog with angie, now resting and then off to bed 2009-08-15
- at a luau http://twitpic.com/e2nm6 2009-08-15
- icee with the kids http://twitpic.com/e1q0w 2009-08-15
- heading home from costco, daughter asked about music, I said "that's the red hot chili peppers, they were cool when daddy was a little boy" 2009-08-15
- breakfast http://twitpic.com/dzw47 2009-08-15
- getting house ready for our 3 new kids we're adopting – their bedrooms are ready 2009-08-15
- good night, my twizzles http://is.gd/2hJe1 2009-08-14
- companies solely top-line focused miss the point: you can sell yourself into bankruptcy – it's not how much you sell, it's how much you keep 2009-08-14
- @cleepost congratulations on making the Inc. 500 – that's exciting in reply to cleepost 2009-08-14
- chuck e. cheese = swine flu central 2009-08-14
- at chuck e. cheese's: this place is a bacteria bank, virus vault, germ factory 2009-08-14
- quesadilla with bacon, mango salsa, powerade http://twitpic.com/dtkdq 2009-08-13
- watching animal planet, "into the pride" 2009-08-13
- don't bury your failures, be inspired by them 2009-08-12
- my wife is teaching my daughters how to wash their face, while I read on my bed listening to the girls talk "girl talk" 2009-08-12
- told the server at the sonic drive-inn that he's "da bhest" for getting my order right 2009-08-12
- whoa, a professor from the harvard business school (hbs) asked to use my iphone supply chain blog post in her lecture: http://is.gd/2dw2U 2009-08-12
- @skernes congrats on the CTO job at cash4gold – very cool; I followed your example & quit eBay a few months ago: http://is.gd/2cT62 in reply to skernes 2009-08-11
- found out that my friend is now the chief technology officer (cto) at cash4gold – love the commercials & would love a tour of your operation 2009-08-11
- piñata, twins birthday http://twitpic.com/dk00o 2009-08-11
- blog post: Unappetizing Spaghetti Diagrams http://tinyurl.com/nsn685 2009-08-10
- blog post: Unappetizing Spaghetti Diagrams http://is.gd/2aruX 2009-08-10
- thinking of an mp3 player for 11, 10, & 8 year old that don't need an ipod yet; opinion on this? http://is.gd/293mW – reviews are very good 2009-08-09
- Project that killed my back http://twitpic.com/d8hes 2009-08-08
- made 17 trips for wood chips for trampoline area: fewer trips, larger batches vs more trips, smaller batches -either way, my back is hurting 2009-08-08
- @EdLeafe maybe someday … hey, does rackspace practice lean for software? in reply to EdLeafe 2009-08-08
- playing catch with my son http://twitpic.com/d7s0c 2009-08-08
- 8 kids, 1 dad, barnes & noble 2009-08-08
- Intravoice response systems (ivr) are anti-customer: i just went through an ivr tree only to be told after 5 minutes that they're closed 2009-08-08
- just found out today that there is 1 mixed martial arts fighter, 6 people that have completed the iron man, & 2 olympic skiers at my work 2009-08-07
- at the car wash with kids http://twitpic.com/d2um2 2009-08-07
- my blog post on root cause analysis is getting a lot of traffic lately http://is.gd/25WfY 2009-08-06
- while fixing the sprinklers, I saw a snake and it freaked me out – I'll kickboxing and grapple with any human, but snakes creep me out 2009-08-06
- just wrote a review for my new backcountry.com hat http://is.gd/25nss 2009-08-06
- dishes done, 100 pushups done, bed time 2009-08-05
- my wife's expensive pampered chef ceramic muffin thingamajig cracked in the oven today http://twitpic.com/cx0jx 2009-08-05
- i just bought a hat from backcountry.com http://tr.im/vD7p 2009-08-05
- blog post: Business and Garden-Variety Defects http://tr.im/vvQF 2009-08-04
- while I was turned away from tv, my son yelled "poo", I quickly ran him to the bathroom, but he was talking about winnie the "pooh" 2009-08-04
- in spite the fact that I've weighed 165lb since high school, bacon is my vice 2009-08-04
- might go to norcal with some friends to surf over the weekend sometime this month – gotta plan it, can't wait 2009-08-03
- my wife just published a blog post about our 3 new kids we're adopting http://bit.ly/Lfnab 2009-08-02
- fun day at the park with the kids 2009-08-02
- i just told my 4 year old: "every move you make, every mess you make, I'll be watching you" 2009-08-01
- at the cul-de-sac of fire http://twitpic.com/cbrem 2009-07-31
- listening to richard thaler, father of behavioral economics 2009-07-31
- just bought http://is.gd/1W2ok – a book on human error 2009-07-31
- my son the ninja http://twitpic.com/c78ri 2009-07-30
- Deming should be required reading for everyone in the united states 2009-07-30
- putting the "no" in innovation http://is.gd/1UV76 (via @superfactory) 2009-07-30
- sign outside whole foods market http://twitpic.com/c2×8v 2009-07-29
- today was a super good day 2009-07-28
- got back from a fun walk with my wife 2009-07-28
- watching transformers with the kids – I feel a bit better from being sick all day 2009-07-27
- Listening to George Winston on a Sunday morning; no church, a few on my kids are sick today, my work on our family job kanban chart 2009-07-26
- just bought a frozen hot chocolate for kameron, at the secondhand serenade concert – super good 2009-07-25
- at secondhand serenade with my 11 year old daughter – the opening band, single file, is playing & all their songs are about getting dumped 2009-07-25
- blog post: Amazon and Zappos Sitting in a Tree http://tr.im/tCWT 2009-07-24
- going to see secondhand serenade with my 11-year old daughter tomorrow 2009-07-23
- constraints + creativity = elegance 2009-07-23
- blog post: Amazon and Zappos Sitting in a Tree http://tr.im/tCWT 2009-07-22
- i have officially coined the term "amazappos" http://is.gd/1ImJZ 2009-07-22
- congratulations to tony & @zappos joining the @amazon family – big day indeed – tony, you're my man! 2009-07-22
- i'm running a kaizen event later today & i'm looking forward to it 2009-07-22
- it's not the age of the car that matters, it's the mileage — experience versus tenure 2009-07-21
- tasty quesadilla's with @chadblodgett http://twitpic.com/b2359 2009-07-20
- I want to short shares of $HGSI, but none are available 2009-07-20
- came back home from louisiana to a barack obama commemorative coin from my mom http://twitpic.com/ayvcm 2009-07-19
- @chadblodgett what is "premium" — and to someone who is lactose intolerant, ice cream talk could make me feel bad if i let it in reply to chadblodgett 2009-07-18
- at albertson's in alexandria, louisiana buying potato salad for a southern style bayou barbeque with my adopted son's birth family 2009-07-18
- leaving dallas, headed to louisiana 2009-07-17
- had a dream that taiichi ohno was yelling at me & it gave me the motivation I needed to do better $TM 2009-07-17
- I'm glad I shorted google ($GOOG) yesterday 2009-07-17
- nursing a headache, about to do the dishes, then pushups and off to bed 2009-07-15
- sold $F for my 10-year old son & made a small profit, now need to find a mover to buy for him – suggestions? 2009-07-15
- at the barbershop; there's a guy with tatoos and a beard getting highlights and a perm – is this as weird to you as it is to me? 2009-07-14
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