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Fear of failure I have this. You have this. Pretty much everyone around you has it. It’s not about religion, it is not about background. It’s not even about how much money you have in the bank. I’m talking about fear of failure. It’s always amazing
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There is a lot of talk about the $329 which Apple is asking for the iPad Mini. It’s a full $80 more than the Nexus 7, a comparable tablet ... euhm. Well, not really. You are paying the $80 not as some diehard Android users will point out as the
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Today's post covers two of my pet subjects: risk management and personal productivity. Rather, I apply some ideas which I've become aware of reading personal productivity literature to risk management. This is an iteration of a 2009 article, but with significant changes. The missing risk management
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A high degree of indifference Whenever you utter the words "internal control" in an environment where COSO is not a household word, you are likely to be confronted with a number of reactions, ranging from boredom over surprise over fear back to complete indifference. Overcoming that reaction is
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As with some of the articles published in the past week, I've rewritten an article I wrote in 2009. I am trying to integrate all articles from the past into this blog, rewriting them where that appears necessary. I am very surprised at how relevant it still feels,
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How to determine a risk profile and calculate a level of risk? Introduction This is a significant rewrite and a first time write-up in English of an article I published in Dutch in May of 2009. I'm revisiting it because I had an interesting exchange with my ERM
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Introduction This is a rewrite of a post I published in November 2009 on another blog. I've reviewed and revised the text. While a number of ideas remain valid, I've made quite a number of changes. Any project executed in a public sector environment has to
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Following in the footsteps of our elders Up until only a few generations ago, we used to be destined to follow into the footsteps of our elders. A son of a farmer was likely to become a farmer. If your mother had a small convenience store, you were apt to
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Cleaning up my Linked-In groups From recent experience: I was looking through my Linked-In feeds and noted just how much junk I found in there. Maybe I'm not selective enough, I thought. An ideal moment to clean up some of the accumulated mess that provided too high a
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"Competing with the best of the best" A couple of weeks ago, in Hypercritical episode 79 to be exact, Marco Arment, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin replaced John Siracusa and exchanged ideas on a broad range of topics. Needless to say, it was less focused than Hypercritical usually
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I adore writing longhand I adore writing longhand. I'm not very good at it, and I don't do it often enough, but I adore writing longhand. I crave the feeling of a good weight pen or other writing utensil and the joy of passing that over
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A famous Feynman story I first encountered the term "cargo cult" in the late 1980's when reading one of Richard Feynman's books, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" on his quite interesting life. He actually used it in a commencement address