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Warning – Email Wideload

January 7, 2015 Mike Thomas 2 Comments

Last week I saw an email that was approximately 600 words that I was able to sum up in 3…

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Posted in: Business, Software, Technology

Highway One Problems & Solutions

August 20, 2014 Mike Thomas

Summer is time for road-trips and camping, Albertan’s spilling into BC to enjoy the Province’s natural beauty, families travelling to…

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Posted in: BC, Canada, Civil Engineering, Regulation, Revelstoke, Rural, Technology, Transportation

Guarding your time

September 18, 2013 Mike Thomas 1 Comment

Sometimes you just have to say no. “You’ve gotta keep control of your time,” Buffett says, “and you can’t unless…

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Posted in: Blogging, Featured, Productivity, Project Management, Technology

My Totally Unscientific LinkedIn Groups Experiment

August 21, 2013 Mike Thomas

Over the past week I conducted an experiment on LinkedIn partially in an attempt to see whether there was value in participating…

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Posted in: Business, Canada, Civil Engineering, Community, Marketing, Technology

Swales

April 11, 2013 Mike Thomas

Since moving to the interior of British Columbia back in 2007, I have had many discussions with engineering types about…

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Posted in: Design, Kootenays, Stormwater, Subdivision Design, Technology, Transportation

The Cumulative Effects of Obstructive Complexity

February 18, 2013 Mike Thomas 4 Comments

Cumulative effects are very important. I shared the following article with my wife Robyn this week, and she shared many…

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Posted in: Blogging, Business, Productivity, Technology Filed under: complexity, Dilbert, engineering, obstructive complexity, Scott Adams, shopping, simplicity, Supermarket

The Disaster Management Simulator

July 10, 2012 Mike Thomas 2 Comments

This week we learnt that the Fukishima disaster was man made. Not just that it involved a nuclear reactor, but…

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Posted in: Civil Engineering, Community, Environmental, Governance, Sustainability, Technology Filed under: disaster, disaster management, disaster planning, earthquake, Emergency, emergency management, engineering, municipalities, natural disaster

Big Data in the Local Government Sector

July 4, 2012 Mike Thomas

Data is all around us, and all but the most cynical of us assume, probably naively, that the organizations we…

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Posted in: Business, Cities, Governance, Technology Filed under: Big Data, Cities, data, engineering, GIS, Governance, information, Local government, municipal, Technology

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