Shockingly, I write email on average from 6AM to midnight from Monday-Friday. The frequency is highest in the early morning when I am responding to customers and teammates. It dwindles in the afternoons when I take most of my meetings. This dataset is from my corporate email over the last 12 months. I created this …
Author Archives: Neal Mueller
How I Came To Get Mauled By A Dog
On Sunday at 9AM I walked past my front window and noticed that my cat was staring at a gorgeous Amber German Shepard standing in the street outside my house. What I did not know was that 5 minutes later this gorgeous animal would maul me and send me bleeding to the Hospital Emergency Room. …
Should I Raise Ducks In The Backyard?
[Update] It is not illegal to raise chickens in San Mateo, California. No word on ducks. [Update] My current preferred duck species is the Khaki Campbell (pictured below). They are good in the water, are hardy and lay more eggs than a chicken. I do not know how loyal they are. I want to raise …
Great White Sharks In The San Francisco Bay
The Graphic: The colors lines represent actual sharks from 2000-2008. The gray area represents the extrapolated ranging of all great whites in the area. There is no blow-up of the bay, but supposedly they roamed inside the Golden Gate. The Study: According to a Stanford University-led study released Tuesday, great white sharks occasionally stray from …
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Final 16 Ideas from Google Ideas Contest
Google has selected the final 16 public policy ideas from their big ideas contest. You can see the full range of ideas here. This type of work is important to me because ideas frame our understanding of the world and drive our behaviors. The ideas that resonated with me are: encourage positive media depictions of engineers and …
Goal = Get iPhone
Huge news, I got my sweet invited into the Cisco corporate iPhone pilot. I’m pretty excited, but am also leery that as soon as I get this iPhone 3GS the iPhone 4G will launch and make my new fancy gadget look like a stone. While the cartoon is funny, here’s my thoughts on it. 3GS …
Panorama of San Francisco After 1908 Quake
This desktop panorama is just amazing. If you have double monitors at your desk try spanning this image across your desktop. It looks amazing. I’ve stared at it’s detail for the past 20 minutes waiting for a work telecon to begin. It was taken from a flying gunship overlooking the waterfront and the Golden Gate …
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My Interpretation of ‘Diffusion of Innovation’
My personal interpretation of these customer adopted categories: Innvators – Got product free during beta test or soft launch Early Adopters – Overpaid and bragged about it Early Majority – Most folks Late Majority – Most folks Laggards – Heard about “hot new product” on QVC
Example Of Functional Building Design
The horizontal surface of a gym floor is not the most efficient use of space. The underutilized vertical surface the side is a much more space efficient workout facility. Check out the architecture of this dorm at the University of Twente in the Netherlands by Arons and Gelauff Architects. This is definitely the product of …
Information Overload
A simple index card says it best (via Indexed).