You can be sure a topic has risen to stratospheric levels of absurdity when it becomes the subject of an academic treatise. And so it is with scope creep. Can we think about this for a moment? According to the old saw, it takes two to tango. That means the party of...
We can’t help but notice more and more people lining up to tell more and more people how to do more and more things. It seems as if every public nuisance with a keyboard or a microphone is out to tell someone what to do or how to do it. And the really obnoxious ones...
As creators of messages, we know our communications have to be clear, precise, and (as much as practicable) free from ambiguity, equivocation, and obfuscation. But reason (and sanity) suggests there should be limits. (Please!) Here are a few examples of instances in...
In a previous cartoon and its accompanying blog post, we wrote about spam and one of its particular manifestations — surveys. It turns out we may have been a tad shortsighted. That’s right. In addition to being annoying for the parties who receive them, particularly...
machine (noun) 1. an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work 2. a mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism “Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean...
We love slapstick comedy as much as anybody. (Maybe more, in fact.) But like everything else, there’s a time and a place for it. We love to laugh in meetings, too. But it’s better to be laughing with someone than at someone. So, it really makes us wonder why some...
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