Improve Something Today

Last week I had lunch with a pal who was planning a conference session and looking for a way to get people talking about a specific set of problems.

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Episode details A professional update, a (re)introduction to three main things I’m working on, and a reading from Christopher Alexander et al’s “A Pattern Language.”

Checking in with Comfort-Stretch-Panic When something big is going on—when bad news arrives, as they say, on horseback—it can useful to check in.

Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S.

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Over the past two weeks I’ve been celebrating the first (?)

Part of looking back over the decade I’ve been working on Improve Something Today involved thinking about books.

WURA WTF An easy way to understand Work Unit Routing Analysis (WURA) is to start with its predecessor, Product-Quantity-Routing (PQR) analysis.

Reader favorites Based on the extremely limited data I get and the emails I receive, the most enduringly popular posts here are the procedural items or how-tos.

These are Tilopa’s ‘six words of advice’ in their entirety.

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My favorite gatherings are all alike in a certain way: when they’re over, they’re over.

When people learn I’m a consultant, conversation often proceeds to problems and problem-solving.

These two methods require you to draw a single line to start, which makes them very easy and portable.