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Darryl Seland

Darryl Seland

Darryl Seland is Editor-in-Chief of Quality magazine. He can be reached at selandd@bnpmedia.com.

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Easy Ain't Easy: Taking the difficulty out of making things easy to use.

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Darryl Seland
February 15, 2019
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Easy ain’t easy. Sounds like something said by cultural catchphrase artist and legendary baseball player Yogi Berra, but it sums up a conversation I had at a recent tradeshow in Atlanta.


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Those Who Know Do Not Speak

Those who speak do not know.
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Darryl Seland
January 15, 2019
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While Taoist philosopher Lao Tsu was the first to make the statement, “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know” part of his formal teachings, some form of the wisdom behind this statement has been attributed to such great philosophical minds as Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus.


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A Straight Line

The shortest distance.
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Darryl Seland
December 15, 2018
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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. According to Ty Webb, “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line…in the opposite direction.” 


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Assessing the Quality Situation: The Importance of Knowing Your Surroundings

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Darryl Seland
November 15, 2018
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Knowing the environment, or being aware of your surroundings, is key to many a task. It’s at least one of the ways we express the importance of having all the information we need in order to reach a goal.


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Is Faster Better?

Working smarter could be the answer.
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Darryl Seland
October 15, 2018
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“Work smarter, not harder.” It’s a term often heard by just about anyone who has ever set out to perform a task. It can be found on inspirational posters and do-it-yourself home repair manuals as well as articles on life management and corporate handbooks.


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Pushing the Envelope

It’s not just for artists and performers anymore.
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Darryl Seland
September 15, 2018
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Seems like everyone who fancies themselves an artist or performer uses—or overuses—the term “pushing the envelope” when describing their craft. However, if we journey back to the origins of the term we can regain the value of its meaning.


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Eternalism

Einstein and the past, present, and future.
Darryl
Darryl Seland
August 15, 2018
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It is called Eternalism. It’s the philosophy adopted from the quantum theory that the past, present, and future all exist at the same time. In other words, the past, present, and future are not linear. One does not take place right after the other, rather they all exist equally.


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Quality and Trends

More than just a fad.
Darryl
Darryl Seland
July 15, 2018
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Like many others, the word trend has evolved and changed in meaning over time. Some 400 years ago trend meant “to run or bend in a certain direction” and pertained to natural occurrences like rivers, coastlines and mountain ranges. 


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Putting You in Your Place

Qualifying, quantifying, and ranking.
Darryl
Darryl Seland
June 8, 2018
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It has been said that one of the greatest attributes of humankind is the want and need to bring order to and better understand the universe and our place in it. To do this, we have qualified, quantified, and categorized just about everything around us and analyzed and ranked the relationships among just about all things. 


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Quality is a discipline affected by GIGO

Garbage in, garbage out.
Darryl
Darryl Seland
May 14, 2018
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Garbage in, garbage out. It’s a term born in the early days of the computer and computer programming. The phrase, and its popular acronym, GIGO, are said to have been taken from the business strategies of LIFO and FIFO—last in, first out and first in, first out—as it pertains to inventory management.


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