Intublog https://intublog.com/ Thoughts from the crossroads of Industrial Design and Environmental Graphics Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:05:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Time Tracking https://intublog.com/time-tracking/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:24:32 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1430 I’ve always been a fan of being disciplined about time tracking in my consulting work. Whether we like it or not, the hour is the universally accepted unit by which…

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]]> GTD – Closing the Loops https://intublog.com/gtd-closing-the-loops/ Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:29:03 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1403 This post is a follow-up to a couple of older previous ones; Mental Whack-a-Mole, and Filling the Buckets. They were part of a planned series on my experiences with implementing…

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]]> High Volume Manufacturing https://intublog.com/high-volume-manufacturing/ Tue, 26 May 2015 19:40:04 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1362 I came upon this video recently, and found it utterly fascinating. Although they seem like a mundane everyday item, aluminum beverage cans are pretty much the ultimate in complex, precision…

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]]> Opportunity https://intublog.com/opportunity/ Thu, 21 May 2015 18:06:11 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1354 There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and…

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]]> Visual Understanding https://intublog.com/visual-understanding/ Tue, 19 May 2015 18:21:36 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1343 I’ve been promising myself for several years to get back to doing some painting. Recently I got myself some acrylic colours and some brushes and have been taking a stab…

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]]> Getting Things Done – Filling the Buckets https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-filling-the-buckets/ https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-filling-the-buckets/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:09:11 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1310 This post is a follow-up to the previous one, part of a planned series on my experiences with implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done or GTD system. If you missed…

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]]> https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-filling-the-buckets/feed/ 12 Getting Things Done – Mental Whack-a-Mole https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-mental-whack-a-mole/ https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-mental-whack-a-mole/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:22:20 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1288 A couple of months ago, I reached a breaking point — all the things I had to do no longer fit in my mind or on the various to-do lists…

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]]> https://intublog.com/getting-things-done-mental-whack-a-mole/feed/ 1 Reflections on Vancouver, 1907 https://intublog.com/reflections-on-vancouver-1907/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:55:27 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1265 I shared a video link (embedded below) on Twitter recently that I found to be a remarkable historical record of people interacting with a streetscape in 1907. The footage was…

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]]> Leave the Wolf https://intublog.com/leave-the-wolf/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:53:23 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1255 The xkcd comic above caught my attention when it was originally published a while back, and it came back to mind as I mulled over the usual year-end thoughts about…

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]]> The Magazine https://intublog.com/the-magazine/ https://intublog.com/the-magazine/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:02:56 +0000 http://www.intublog.com/?p=1222 Once in a while, something comes along that in retrospect seems so obvious as to be almost inevitable. Marco Arment‘s new venture The Magazine is one of those things. The…

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