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Adam Kalsey

This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.

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5 Apr 2006

My scanner insists on creating multiple tiffs for multipage document scans. Graphic Converter can change these into PDFs, but then I have a dozen PDFs. PDFLab to the rescue.

The hows and whys of procrastination. Blogging this here so I can get around to reading it later. (Seriously)

Ball Bug finds interesting baseball stories. Like I don’t have enough to read.

Martin Geddes takes Net Neutrallity down a notch.

Keep your inbox near-empty with Merlin’s Inbox Zero series. Or try Bit Literacy. Or maybe just hire an assistant to read your email for you.

Recently Written

A Framework for Scaling product teams
Oct 9: The people, processes, and systems that make up a product organization change radically as you go through the stages of a company. This framework will guide that scaling.
My Networked Webcam Setup
Sep 25: A writeup of my network-powered conference call camera setup.
Roadmap Outcomes, not Features
Sep 4: Drive success by roadmapping the outcomes you'll create instead of the features you'll deliver.
Different roadmaps for different folks
Sep 2: The key to effective roadmapping? Different views for different needs.
Micromanaging and competence
Jul 2: Providing feedback or instruction can be seen as micromanagement unless you provide context.
My productivity operating system
Jun 24: A framework for super-charging productivity on the things that matter.
Great product managers own the outcomes
May 14: Being a product manager means never having to say, "that's not my job."
Too Big To Fail
Apr 9: When a company piles resources on a new product idea, it doesn't have room to fail. But failing is an important part of innovation. If you can't let it fail, it can't succeed.

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