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Missed Seeing the Forest for the Trees - April 2022
Bill’s Building BlocksMissed Seeing the Forest for the Trees - April 2022
It is hard to get and keep student’s attention in a large lecture hall. One participatory exercise that I use is to challenge the class to decide Supplier A versus Supplier B for a given set of circumstances. The ...
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Bill's Building Blocks: Blokus, A Game of Thwarting Risk with Strategy
Bill's Building Blocks: Blokus, A Game of Thwarting Risk with Strategy
In the Mattel strategy board game Blokus (ages five to adult) players position colored tiles on a square board attempting to deny their opponent the opportunity to place all 21 of their pieces. The board is divided into 20 rows ...
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Managing Accounts Receivable - February 2022
Bill’s Building Blocks
Managing Accounts Receivable
When the self-cleaning feature of our stove failed, the oven door locked and could not be opened by the technician without a complete disassembly of the unit. Sooo…it was time for a new stove. Its installation required two trips by th...
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Measuring Back, Estimating Forward - January 2022
Bill’s Building BlocksMeasuring Back, Estimating Forward
The family went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home at an AMC Dolby Theater. We sat two rows back from the screen in reclining seats swept over by pulsating sound waves at high decibel volumes. After returning home we decided to order out fo...
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My First 100 Columns
Bill’s Building Blocks - December 2021
My First 100 Columns
My son is an accomplished architect. I have always been intrigued by the integration of disciplines of the architect to plan and design, working with the structural engineer to achieve design goals and analyze risks, working with th...
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