Is it ok that the vast majority of individual Google doodles celebrate the accomplishments of men? Google, a company that prides itself as being an alternative, reminds us that sexist historical viewpoints are still the null. So what are the facts? Ann Martin has been gathering and compiling evidence on her blog since November of […]
The tension at the beginning of every evaluation
This cartoon is a tension attacker. It’s not designed to judge. It’s designed to spark. If you’re on the program side, you have to believe the program works. If it didn’t, why are you committing so much of yourself. You likely have your own evidence to support that notion. From the evaluation side, you need […]
Ok Seth Godin, I’m going to tell a story
If you read enough Seth Godin, he starts to wear you down (or build you up?). At first you just listen and wonder how this guy became so famous. Then after he simply lays out point after point you start to figure him out. It’s not any single post, book, or talk. It’s the consistency […]
Want your tweets unique, try writing them in Haiku, here is a cartoon
Can a several centuries old form of poetry be an alternative? No doubt. Especially if you use the form to Tweet. Maria Gajewski got the whole Evaluation Haiku thing started earlier this year. More recently it sprung back up in the ongoing #eval twitter conversation. I'll leave the rest of the chronicling to Ann Emery […]
I am the null hypothesis
The null hypothesis is immensely powerful. It doesn’t have to be proven, it just is. You don’t have to explain why you’re using Word to write a report or Power Point to give a presentation. You don’t have to explain why you present at conferences or write for a journal. They are already accepted, they […]
A slideshow of words
How often are we given undivided attention? Then, when we get it, how often do we waste the moment on a boring presentation?