Category Archives: Content with Context

Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Conceiving

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 114 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 Six years ago, I wrote a draft of a book that was a takeoff on Rilke’s Letters to a … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 4: Monetizing

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 112 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  131,000 “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 3: The Content

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 111 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  130,000 In 1986 I experienced a management development course through Outward Bound (OB)  from the Hurricane Island, ME branch.  One … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 2: The Form

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 110 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  129,000 I was beyond ecstatic to be selected as Vice President of Software Engineering for Aldus Corporation in 1990.  I … Continue reading →

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What is a book?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 109 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  128,000 I love books. From the minute I learned how to read, I surrounded myself with books of all kinds. … Continue reading →

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Timeless Way of Building

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 107 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  127,000 I love Christopher Alexander’s Timeless Way of Building. I love the form and the content.  Alexander wrote the book … Continue reading →

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A Product has a North Star

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

Recently, I came across a blog post on “North Star Metric” (NSM).  I was delighted that somebody else had written about a topic that is critical to the product teams I’ve managed.  I shared my thoughts in the post “The … Continue reading →

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Know Now

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Skip Walter

What if you could accurately predict, in fact even know, your quarterly results at the beginning of a quarter rather than at the end of a quarter? That is the question that Eric Robinson and I explored many times over … Continue reading →

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Why are there so few visual analytics applications?

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Skip Walter

I wish I knew. Robert Crawford asked “Why are there so few interactive visualization software application products in the legal space?  Attenex Patterns showed us the power of visual analytics to dramatically improve productivity in the legal market.  Yet, outside … Continue reading →

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Wake Up!

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Skip Walter

During November 2014, I took a “Communicating with Power and Presence Workshop” put on by the TAI Group in New York City with several colleagues.  On the second day, we gave a five minute business presentation and then received extensive … Continue reading →

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