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Not made for that – The Daily PPILL #52

Not made for that – The Daily PPILL #52

No system in the world has been designed for every possible situation. Most of them have been optimized for a particular range and “use case”. As an engineer by training, it sometimes baffles me how this concept is not well understood. When we go outside...
Leveraging Moore’s law – The Daily PPILL #44

Leveraging Moore’s law – The Daily PPILL #44

Most of you reading this will be familiar with Moore’s law. As other laws, it is not something grand that governs the universe, but some relationship that arose from observation. Moore’s law roughly states that computing power doubles about every two years...
UVP – The Daily PPILL #39

UVP – The Daily PPILL #39

Ah! The UVP! or “Unique Value Proposition”. Determining the UVP of a product, service, or even a company is probably one of the most useful exercises in management. Forget about your “elevator pitch”, this is the one to work on. I have seen...
Decision making – The Daily PPILL #34

Decision making – The Daily PPILL #34

Making the right decision is always desirable, it is even more important to make any decision at all. Decision making is the most important aspect of the CEO’s job and one of my favorite sayings goes “as long as you are making decisions, you are moving...
The Bullet Journal – The Daily PPILL #29

The Bullet Journal – The Daily PPILL #29

I. Cannot. Stop. Talking. About. This. One. Ryder Carroll has been working on this idea for a while. I got first introduced to it through fine journal maker Leuchtturm1917. Carroll has come up with a method that makes paper journaling flexible and multi-purpose. When...