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What ‘The Office’ Gets Wrong About the Office

Posted on February 12, 2012

I start a new job next week and so I’ve been working on documenting all of my old tasks and projects in preparation for the transition. As I was going through old e-mails, I…

Thick as a [LEGO] Brick

Posted on February 11, 2012

A few weeks ago, Samuel Arbesman wrote an article in Wired touching on the mathematical properties inherent in LEGO structures. In it, he discussed the results of a 10-year old study of natural and human-made…

Favre-a-Palooza

Posted on December 17, 2011

Now that we can safely say that Brett Favre has retired (notwithstanding rumors to the contrary), I thought it was time to pull out some data on the indecisive quarterback’s career touchdown…

Unemployment vs. Underemployment

Posted on October 9, 2011

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the results of two major surveys on the first Friday of every month (the Current Employment Statistics or CES and the Current Population Statistics or CPS). Although…

Six Degrees of Joy Division

Posted on May 29, 2011

My local record store used to have this great poster on the back wall that explained how several dozen British indie bands from the 80s were all linked together through their various group members. The title…

Time-Distance Diagrams

Posted on April 27, 2011

After I was in a car accident a few years ago, I contacted the city Traffic Control Engineer to see if I could get a copy of the signal timing sequence for…

Fighting Insidious Business Jargon with Design

Posted on February 28, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to introducing new concepts to people is that they often have old, preconceived notions about those concepts that are just close enough to the truth to cause confusion. For example,…

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