Archive for March 2008
How do you know if you’ve changed from a Type A workaholic into a good parent?
If, in the same week, you can go from gently chewing out an employee for not being responsive to a client within a few minutes of their request coming in to fishing with your son in a pond that you know has not a single fish. You just cast that line out into the water…
Read MoreNew article on investor communications up
Everything has changed in the last 5 years about how the Internet figures into investor relations. I’ve coauthored an article with Jeff Connaughton at Quinn Gillespie and Associates about it. Please take a moment and read about the major changes ahead for investor relations because of the Internet [PDF, 18k].
Read MoreRatholing chips: surreptitiously removing chips from your stack while still at the table
One of the basic tenets of fairness in a poker game is that you can’t remove money from the table until you get up. You can (and should) count it all you want, but it’s got to stay on the table. This gives the other players a chance to win it back from you. So…
Read MoreTwittering the poker trip
So I’ve setup twitter as an experiment during the upcoming Vegas trip. If you’re interested in following me, you can check the right column of the blog at www.safdar.net, my Facebook status, or actually follow me on twitter if you’re that sort of person that actually uses twitter to follow people. I may not keep…
Read MoreSafdar Summer Tournament Poker Camp
A couple of years ago, right before Moishe was born, I made a long desired trip to play in one of the baby events at the World Series of Poker. I did terribly and got put out after an hour and twenty minutes, but it was fun nevertheless. The rest of that trip was mostly…
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Read MoreHow to reach Shabbir
Someone commented that they wanted to e-mail me but there was no entry on my blog about how to do that. So here’s some guidance in order of my preference: Write me by e-mail: I much prefer to be approached by e-mail. You can send e-mail to shabbir -at- safdar.net. You will be prompted to…
Read MorePoker experiment is over
So I think my experiment with session length is over. Playing last night live and microstakes online for the last few weeks has yielded a number of epiphanies. The reason that I’m trying to run short sessions is to cover for leaks in my game. The longer I sit, the more the leaks cut into…
Read MoreThe three rules of being the lead client contact
If you’re on a team consulting to a client, there are three rules you need to follow if you’re the client lead or the point of contact: When a client sends you a request, you need to acknowledge it right away even if you don’t know how you’re going to handle it. You can follow…
Read MoreOmigod, I’m going to shoot soup out my nose!
I just caught "Wikihistory", by Desmond Warzel, a short story about a collaborative wiki being kept by time travelers. All the worst behaviors of both time travelers and wikipedia fans are in full effect. It’s a hysterical read. Start at the top and work your way down, just like reading fiction.
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