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	<title>OnTheShelf &#187; Random Ramblings</title>
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		<title>Exceptional People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shape was unmistakable, the square corners and distinct boxy shape were rigid and iconic.  It looked densely structured enough to repel the Newtonian forces of freeway collision, yet rigidly sleek and angular on the planes of each of its sides.  The outer cover challenged my perception, but only slightly.  The denim was taught against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Creative Language even Politicians Understand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a good bit of time trying to understand how creative cultures organically grow within business organizations. Many argue that creative organizations never grow inside entrenched non-innovative environments, but I don&#8217;t accept that conclusion.  CEO&#8217;s are not antagonistic as they once were, and many are genuine proponents.  The notion of &#8220;innovate or die&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/creative-language-politicians-understand/453</link>
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		<title>Inside the Head of a Hoarder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows someone who may be an over-the-top collector. There are no stones being thrown in this cluttered glass house, many of us have our secret junk closets or garage-brimming sets of collections.  It appears, however, there may be a fine line between serial collectors and true hoarders.  This short article from DISCOVER Magazine was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/inside-the-head-of-a-hoarder/471</link>
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		<title>A Musing about Muses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all of her five years of life, perhaps the last thirty minutes had been the longest for her to live through.  Frustration had begun half an hour earlier and had been slowly building.  Now the the frustration had risen to the level of a pressure cooker, evidencing itself by the pained look on her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/a-musing-about-muses/324</link>
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		<title>Exchanging Signs of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know there was a universal sign for choking? There is, at least according to one of my former college professors. Early one morning in a class on emergency medicine he contended if you put your hands around your own neck, ostensibly chocking yourself, anyone in the world (perhaps the universe) would know you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/exchanging-signs-of-life/166</link>
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		<title>Where do Ideas Sleep?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where ideas go to play.  http://ontheshelf.com/journals]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/where-do-ideas-sleep-2/40</link>
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		<title>The Memory Collector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a hobby; I&#8217;m a collector of memories. I really enjoy remembering times and situations from my past which were meaningful to me. Now in my forties, twenty years with my wife, and a child living an active and all too-quickly approaching pre-teen life, my memories have exceed my ability to…remember. Like the breadcrumb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/the-memory-collector/171</link>
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		<title>Fits and Snarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of dark chocolate, the darker and less traditional the better. Milk chocolate is just too boring for me; banally sweet, with little distinction from one sampling to the next. By contrast the complexity of the flavor of dark chocolate rarely ceases to amaze me and I actually look forward to being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/fits-and-snarks/175</link>
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		<title>Underestimating our Users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From both within and outside software development companies it has been a theme of mine for years that we designers and engineers tend to underestimate our users. I have raised this point in both positive and negative contexts. By way of some examples I have argued that we can never underestimate the level of effort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/underestimating-our-users/179</link>
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		<title>Rising Above the Weeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the weeds this week. All I could see was what seemed like hundreds of tasks that I needed to make progress on, and at some point it seemed like a good idea to use a machete and my full force to hack them all down. As you might expect, that wasn&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ontheshelf.com/journals/rising-above-the-weeds/184</link>
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