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Bartending and Project Management

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I believe that project managers should tend bar sometime early in their careers. I doubt this conviction will prompt a change in the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification process, but the concept is worth investigating. So much can be learned from preparing the bar for business, making and serving drinks, ferrying platters of hot food,...

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A Poem for a Freshman

During a graduation party for my college-bound goddaughter Melinda, I sat down at a picnic table and hastily wrote out a few lines to include in the card we gave her...

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O Computer, Have Mercy

I recently enjoyed hearing this great quote from Joseph Campbell, prolific author in comparative mythology and religion: A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. This could be the basis for a whole new psychology about...

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How We Learn Stuff

How We Learn Stuff

Richard Condie is one of the funniest and most imaginative animators to come out of the National Film Board of Canada. I remember laughing myself to tears watching one of his pieces called "The Apprentice" at a Toronto film festival in 1992.

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Linux: A Difference Engine for Inner-city Youth

If you want to see where desktop Linux and open-source software is making a difference, you should hear what some young people in inner-city Camden, New Jersey have to say now that they've experienced it for themselves.

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