Category Archives: Other Thoughts

Off the Shelf: February 2024 (Newbery cleanup)

Attending the ALA event at Loganberry in January to hear the Newbery awards reminded me of my goal to read all the Newbery Medals and to sample the more interesting Newbery Honors, so I loaded up February with Newberys. Many… (read more)

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Another post on too many meetings . . . at the wrong times

A recent post in the Journal titled “Is It Ever OK to Have an 8 a.m. Meeting?” got me thinking. Now, I’m not going to quote from any study or point you to some paper that backs up my habits.… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: January 2024

I had the opportunity to watch the ALA awards broadcast at Loganberry Books this year and that filled up my to-be-read stack, even more so than usual. Simon Sort of Says I went to Mac’s Backs one Saturday in late… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: December 2023 (resiliency)

While meaningful to me, I don’t know that my December readings would make sense to many people. In no particular order: Adventures with a Texas Naturalist Bedichek is one of Texas’ great persons of letters, in the style of Thoreau.… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: November 2023 (exploration)

My curiosity in a wide range of topics shows up in my reading lists. I’m not always able to explain why something is on the list, but I’m working on doing better since I believe the “why” can be relevant… (read more)

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Compass quote

compasses only tell the directions,not which one to follow Maclean, N. (1992). Young men and fire. Univ. of Chicago Press. Leaders choose which direction to follow. They can make that decision any number of different ways, but the leader makes… (read more)

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Cybersecurity for Small Businesses

During my cybersecurity consultations with owners and leaders in small businesses, the initial discussions generally center around five topics. The order in which they’re introduced isn’t intended to imply any relative importance but instead represents a conversational flow as we… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: January 2022 (skunkworks)

I’m reading two other books on the “whitespace” in organizations at the moment when I came across this HBR article that I had clipped some time before. In my experience, “whitespace” in an organization is usually defined as the space… (read more)

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Off The Shelf: December 2021 (antitrust and Amazon)

I read much but finished little in December. Sometimes that happens—I have a tendency to have too many books going at once. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox In an effort to better my understanding of monopolies and antitrust, I picked up an… (read more)

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Off the Shelf: November 2021

It wasn’t a terribly exciting reading month. In alphabetical author order: The Long Way to a small, Angry planet This was recommended to me because I so thoroughly enjoy Nathan Lowell’s space series and was trying not to read Captain’s… (read more)

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