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Understanding the __utmz Google Analytics Cookie
The __utmz cookie is the Google Analytics traffic source cookie. It stores information about where a visitor came from — the source, medium, campaign, and keyword that brought them to your site. Understanding what it contains and how...
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I Am Sapped
There are weeks that drain you completely. Not from any single dramatic event, but from the accumulated weight of small decisions, small disappointments, and the relentless forward motion that life demands even when you would rather stop.
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Faith
Faith is a word that gets used in two very different ways, and confusing them causes a lot of unnecessary argument. There is faith as a religious or spiritual concept, and there is faith as a practical operating principle — the...
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5 Years Hence
Five years is an interesting unit of time to think about. Short enough to feel concrete, long enough to allow for genuine transformation. Where will you be in five years? What will you have built, broken, learned, abandoned?
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D-Wars
D-Wars (Dragon Wars) is a South Korean monster film that made it to international screens on the strength of its visual effects budget and the universal appeal of giant creatures destroying city blocks. It is exactly what it looks like: an...
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a peculiar emotion. It is not quite happiness and not quite sadness — it sits somewhere between them, a kind of sweet ache for things that no longer exist in the form you remember them.
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My Life Is a Beatles Soundtrack
There are bands whose music fits specific moods or phases. And then there is the Beatles, which seems to have written the soundtrack for every possible human experience. I keep discovering this at unexpected moments.
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Customer Orientation
Every company claims to be customer-oriented. Almost none of them actually are, and the gap between the claim and the reality is one of the most reliable predictors of long-term failure I know.
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Savalee — The Acorn and the Oak
The Marathi word savalee means shadow — specifically the pleasant shade cast by a large tree. It carries connotations of shelter, rest, and the kind of cool refuge you seek on a hot afternoon. It is a word with comfort built into it.
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Bandwidth
Bandwidth has become a metaphor as much as a technical term. We talk about personal bandwidth, cognitive bandwidth, emotional bandwidth — and by this we mean the same thing the engineers mean: the capacity to carry information, to...