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		<title>8 Top Status Meeting Mistakes</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/08/19/8-top-status-meeting-mistakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much of my work life has been lost to long, tedious, low-value gatherings called either "status meetings" or "progress meetings." As a project manager, I certainly believe in the importance of getting the team into the same room (or conference call) at the same time. But too often, I've had to join status meetings that leave me frustrated with how much time they burn up and how little new information I take away.]]></description>
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		<title>Bartending and Project Management</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/07/26/bartending-and-project-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, taking customer orders, communicating orders to the kitchen, cleaning up spills, and other such drudgery. It's like boot camp for anybody who hopes to get a practical grasp of the physical, verbal, and mental skills needed to operate as a truly effective project manager.]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem for a Freshman</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/07/19/a-poem-for-a-freshman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title>O Computer, Have Mercy</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/04/19/o-computer-have-mercy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 the human/computer interface. Everybody knows some poor soul who gapes as if Judgment Day has arrived because of an inscrutable error message or an e-mail snafu. Those of us in the IT biz often find ourselves acting like Moses on Sinai trying to mediate between the stern CPU and the wayward People of Userville.]]></description>
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		<title>How We Learn Stuff</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/01/05/how-we-learn-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apprentice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Linux: A Difference Engine for Inner-city Youth</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2009/01/04/linux-a-difference-engine-for-inner-city-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://clarifile.com/2009/01/04/linux-a-difference-engine-for-inner-city-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hopeworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Merlin Mann Coddles Your Focus</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/15/merlin-mann-coddles-your-focus/</link>
		<comments>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/15/merlin-mann-coddles-your-focus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[43folders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Mann posted an update to a slide deck he produced earlier this year for MacWorld about truly understanding the real importance of your minutes and focus.]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Through Some New Portals</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/13/walking-through-some-new-portals/</link>
		<comments>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/13/walking-through-some-new-portals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intranet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What I'm enjoying is how much commonality exists in the effort to plan, design, and deploy these two new portals.]]></description>
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		<title>Love the Mess</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/11/love-the-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://clarifile.com/2008/08/11/love-the-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleanup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A mess is a "clean" slate onto which order is painted, drawn, crafted, etched, or discovered.]]></description>
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		<title>A New Twitter Effect</title>
		<link>http://clarifile.com/2008/05/19/a-new-twitter-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://clarifile.com/2008/05/19/a-new-twitter-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarifile.com/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think microblogging like Twitter helps procrastinators and perfectionists actually publish something blog-like without thinking about it as much. ]]></description>
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