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Success Isn’t Always Obvious
18-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
In many companies and in many programs, success is obvious and measuring success is easy. You set about to achieve a goal, and you measure it by how well you achieved that goal. A business’s goal is to make money, and the amount and margin is a direct measure of that success. If you develop
Read MoreVisualization: Run Mapping & Self Gamific...
11-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Run Mapping allows you to track all of your runs on a map and make a game out of it! Visualization is a great motivator! I discuss several methods of visualizing your runs in this article.
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The Role of Context in Match Candidate Reductio...
6-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Automatic detection and categorization of motion is processor intensive. Using the context of the user provides valuable constraints to reduce the set of possible matches.
Read MoreEnergy Harvesting- A New Hope
2-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Following up on the previous energy harvesting article, a new breakthrough at MIT could make a big difference in the future.
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Modularity and Architecture- The Importance of ...
1-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Products designed with modularity and architecture in mind are inherintly more flexible, customizable and adaptable to future changes in technology and markets.
Read MoreEnergy Advances for IoT
25-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
As IoT deployments increase in number, they will drive a demand for better power sources. We examine here a few advances in energy storage and harvesting.
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Reading Recommendation: Creativity, by The Oat...
24-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
I’m a fan of The Oatmeal. It’s original, the creator has a unique- and cute, illustration style. It’s published at an irregular pace- whenever the author, Matthew Inman, has something to publish. Creativity can’t be rushed, which he elegantly posits in this rather long, beautifully-illustrated comic. Matt has a unique point of view. My own
Read MoreTracking your Runs
23-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
An overview of my three, favorite running apps- FITIV Pulse, Strava and MapMyRun. Each one has its strength, so I run with all three at once.
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Book Recommendation: The Design of Everyday Th...
19-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Check out the quintessential book The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman.
Read MoreAgents of Change
15-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Society goes through an inflection point every generation or so. With COVID-19 as an Agent of Change, we may be at such a point. Let's examine what technology will help and how it will change as a result.
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