Category Archives: ebook

Making Notes versus Taking Notes

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Skip Walter

Covid Deaths in U.S.:  1,109,983   Get Vaccinated! Stop the War in Ukraine! I am a visual recall person. I have a very difficult time remembering anything that I only hear. To compensate, all my life I have taken extensive notes. I … 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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Asking for Help – Need Readers for My Draft Book

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Skip Walter

I need some help. I am looking for a few “young entrepreneurs” or young at heart entrepreneurs who have a few hours to read through an early draft of Emails for a Young Entrepreneur and share with me your first impressions. As … Continue reading →

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“We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Skip Walter

The buzz around badges is heating up in the educational environment. Whenever I hear badges, I immediately think of the old western movie where the hombre exclaims “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.” Cathy Davidson has a thoughtful post on … Continue reading →

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The Non-Linear or Layered eBook

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Skip Walter

As a life long and life wide software entrepreneur, I love building software systems. Well, to be truthful, I love doing the user research and design of the system. Once the system is designed, then it is just that small matter … Continue reading →

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Too Much to Know – The Death of the Long Form Book?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Skip Walter

At dinner the other evening at Crush with my valued all things marketing and branding colleague, Katherine James Schuitemaker, I shared with her that I finally produced a draft of the book on Attenex Patterns I’ve wanted to write for … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities – Really?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Skip Walter

Russ Ackoff shared that the best knowledge system he knew was to have an intelligent set of graduate students that knew him.  In 1985 when we were meeting regularly, he described the joy every morning of coming in and having … Continue reading →

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Creating Jobs – Racing with Smart Machines

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Skip Walter

In this silly season of presidential politics and having to listen to the nightly shenanigans of both parties about how important jobs are with the cynical me knowing that none of them have a clue how to improve the job … Continue reading →

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