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  • Measuring the Swing Weight of a Tennis Racquet at Home

    As some of you know, I used to be an above average tennis player. I still play once or twice a week and am very picky about my tennis racquets. If it doesn’t feel right it can throw your whole game off. When you look at the specs for a racquet, two of the most…

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  • The Meeting Epidemic: How White Collar Work Became an Endless Conference Call

    Regular readers know I’m not a huge fan of meetings. Meetings are crucial for team coordination. The problem is not meetings per se, but rather how poorly most of them are run. Unfortunately, the situation seems to be getting worse. Recent studies highlight how meetings have exploded in frequency, becoming a significant drag on productivity…

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  • Revisiting Goodwill

    This is a little dated, but I found it too funny not to post about. My most popular post to date discusses financial statements and how engineers can make sense of them. There’s a short section on “goodwill” there: One interesting side note is that when Company A buys Company B, Company A must pay…

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