Posts by David Bean

• If you’re fortunate, you’ll get to know them as well as I have.

  June 4th, 2010 • Author: David Bean • 3 Comments

  Tags: Attensity

  Hello everyone, It’s with a strange combination of thoughts and emotions that I tell you that I’m leaving Attensity. Why?  Well, I’ve been at this for a long time now.  Ten years as Attensity-the-company, at least another five prior to that in academic work that laid the groundwork for the company.  So in one sense, [...]

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• Rant: People vs. Resources

  September 10th, 2009 • Author: David Bean • No Comments

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  One of my regular rants at Attensity involves misusing the term ‘resource’ to refer to a person.  I find that practice to be demeaning and short-sighted, and I think it’s dangerous.  Dangerous?, you say.  Absolutely.  It’s easy to talk about applying people, time, and machines to a task, collectively referring to them as resources, but [...]

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• Clinical Proof that I’m Thick-Headed

  September 8th, 2009 • Author: David Bean • No Comments

  Tags: Linguistics, NLP

  Ten stitches, an ER visit, and a whole bunch o’ blood, but no cracked skull…proof that my head is thick.  (No wonder why my PhD took 10 years.)  And no, Mom, none of this has anything to do with the motorcycle. I wish I had a better story to tell.  Something like hitting my head while [...]

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• Reluctant Blogging and Why I Want to be a Park Ranger Today

  September 1st, 2009 • Author: David Bean • No Comments

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  Hi all, David Bean here.  At the risk of offending the marketing and PR side of Attensity, I’m going to tell you exactly how I feel about writing this blog.  Reluctant.  Uncomfortable.  Agitated.  Downright grumpy about the whole thing.  I wish I had a dental appointment right now. I mean, you’ve gotta have a certain [...]

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