An interesting snippet from PBS about the effect of color…
Occasional Musings
by Murali Jayapala
The Acute Heptagram of Impact [S. Godin]
Seths Blog
via The Acute Heptagram of Impact.
Not as catchy a title as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but I hope you’ll walk through this with me:
I can outline a strategy for you, but if you don’t have the tactics in place or you’re not skilled enough to execute, it won’t matter if the strategy is a good one.
Your project’s success is going to be influenced in large measure by the reputation of the people who join in and the organization that brings it forward. That’s nothing you can completely change in a day, but it’s something that will change (like it or not) every day.
None of this matters if you and your team don’t persist, and your persistence will largely be driven by the desire you have to succeed, which of course is relentlessly undermined by the fear we all wrestle with every day.
These seven elements: Strategy, Tactics, Execution, Reputation, Persistence, Desire and Fear, make up the seven points of the acute heptagram of impact. If your project isn’t working, it’s almost certainly because one or more of these elements aren’t right. And in my experience, it’s all of them. We generally pick the easiest and safest one to work on (probably tactics) without taking a deep breath and understanding where the real problem is.
Feel free to share the AHI, but please don’t have it tattooed on your hip or anything.
Waiting for all the facts [S. Godin]
Seths Blog
via Waiting for all the facts.
A very useful piece of advice from Seth Godin
“I’m just going to wait until all the facts are in…”
All the facts are never in. We don’t have all the facts on the sinking of the Titanic, on the efficacy of social media or on whether dogs make good house pets. We don’t have all the facts on hybrid tomatoes, global warming or the demise of the industrial age, either.
The real question isn’t whether you have all the facts. The real question is, “do I know enough to make a useful decision?” (and no decision is still a decision).
If you don’t, then the follow up question is, “What would I need to know, what fact would I need to see, before I take action?”
If you can’t answer that, then you’re not actually waiting for all the facts to come in.
Comparison of 24-105L IS with kit lens 18-55mm IS II
Recently, I pulled the trigger and upgraded from my kit lens 18-55mm IS II to 24-105mm L lens. Here is some initial comparison in semi-controlled environment. In all of these pics, the kit lens under exposed the pics compared to 24-105mm. Already a good start..
A more thorough comparison can be found here at the digital picture.
[Iso chart comparison @digital picture]
[distortion chart comparison @digital picture]
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- 24-105L vs 18-55 IS II @ 24mm f/10
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- 24-105L vs 18-55 IS II @ 24mm f/4
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- 24-105L vs 18-55 IS II @ 24mm f/5.6
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- 24-105L vs 18-55 IS II @ 50mm f/10
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- 24-105L vs 18-55 IS II @ 50mm f/5.6
