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Trevor Blake: Weird Tales of Bookselling

I was a used and rare bookseller in much of the 1990s. Selling books was a life-long goal and I am glad I was able do it. In January 1995 I had the chance to catalog a wonderful collection that disappeared soon after. This is that weird tale. When I arrived at work that morning [...]

Trevor Blake: Fortean Index to OMSI Magazine

Fortean content in the first five years of OMNI Magazine.  Compiled October 1997, previously unpublished. Including notations for articles relating to accupuncture, alchemy, alternative energy sources, the Amazing Randi, ancient astronauts, artificial intelligence, astral projection, astrology, the Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, cargo cults, cattle mutilation, communication with non-humans, creationism, cryptozoology, Dianetics, dinosaurs, dowsing, earthquakes, firewalking, Uri [...]

Kanban – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kanban is a signaling system to trigger action. Kanban – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kanban, Flow and Cadence « AvailAgility

A Kanban System manages the workflow in a way which allows the Product Backlog, Timeboxed Iterations and Estimations to be eliminated. Kanban, Flow and Cadence « AvailAgility

Less Wrong: The Great Brain is Located Externally

propositional knowledge is being gradually supplanted by the procedural. You need only know how to find information, to be able to use it after a trivial delay. Less Wrong: The Great Brain is Located Externally