Every morning I look at my six-box to-do list and design my schedule for the day.
These documents were neatly organized in folders, but my e-mail (including large volumes of spam) was just sitting, uncategorized, in my in-box.
It was, in fact, instantly addictive, as I hunted down five year old e-mails that had been buried in my in-box.
From the first time that spam emails from Groupon (I must have checked off a box somewhere) started to clog my in-box, I wondered: How do they stay in business?
My in-box -- and heart -- have been jammed with stories every hour of every day for over a decade.
"Half of my in-box is filled with e-mail from guys in different departments saying they've heard about some project we're working on and they want to know more because they have clients who could benefit from those products, " says Toyama.
"No one wants a heart-shaped box with my face on it, " says Ms. DeArman.
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The company said the 5.10 version will be a comprehensive discovery solution with more than 20 new big data analytic capabilities, including out-of-the-box-ready visual capabilities. (Also see my upcoming Tableau story for more on visualization) Insights from these analytics can empower organizations to be more profitable by improving detection of customer churn, fraud, and the root causes of low-yield in manufacturing processes.
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If you do that, you can move your set-top box back to where my Apple TV now sits.
My colleagues in the TV box saw it differently - and I thought the use of technology was supposed to remove controversy!
When I was fifteen, I took the box-of-puppies fantasy into my own hands.
Egnyte co-founder CEO Vineet Jain read my story about how Box.net and others are gaining traction in the business software market by giving away chunks of their offerings, free.
My Linked-in requests grow daily, my Facebook friends ask me to subscribe to their events, my email in box is awash in newsletters, conferences, and offers.
As I shuffled back to my office, I saw a co-worker carrying a grungy box overflowing with her stuff.
My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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The world sees stereotypes of waitress or Tiger Mom, but even within my own ethnicity, I am also supposed to fit into a box -- that of obedient child.
Which is why I go through them box by box, paper by paper, and run them through my cross-cut shredder so that they forever disappear from the universe of useable data.
Back in my kitchen, I unrolled the meat and scored the rind using a box-cutter, making the lines as close-together as I had the patience for, aiming for about a half inch apart.
As a recent college grad, I often find myself coming up with off-the-wall, out-of-the-box, borderline idiotic ideas of what to do with the rest of my life.
Once-ler-like, I am filled with regret for having encouraged such Gluppity-Glupp by paying for my family to see it, thus doing my small sad part in biggering the box office.
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The cardboard box from which the Jayalalitha-lookalike was doling out soft drink cans, dripped stickily onto my notebooks and elicited a quick apology -- repeated in the same vein when informing me that no, there were no bottles of potable water in lieu of the fizzy stuff.
Meanwhile, we parents will continue to explain to our kids, who have already grown up trying to overcome feelings of isolation and difference, that what Lanza did has no more to do with them than if he were diabetic or left handed -- and I'll admire and love my son more every day for teaching me to think out of the box.
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