Procrastination
Procrastination is dangerous. I recently read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It is a fascinating book overall. His main theme is that humans are poor predictors of rare…
The First Test of 2020
I had the first test of my mental stability for 2020. Last week I was working in Houston. It’s the third week of 12 straight weeks of travel. Several of…
Thoughts on November 11
Vimy Monument at Vimy Ridge Memorial November 11 has always been an interesting and difficult day for me. I’m not exactly sure why it is such a powerful day. Few…
In Praise of Maintenance
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about the importance of maintenance from podcasts, books and blogs. We all know maintenance is important, but why is it so hard to make…
A chat on a plane
I had a lovely chat with a fellow traveler and software consultant on my flight home last weekend. It began with a 6 AM flight from Wichita to Atlanta. Normally,…
Lookout Mountain
Are you ever at a point when an opportunity you will enjoy presents itself, but inertia has taken hold and it feels like you need the power of a Space…
Forcing Myself to Learn
Last week on Instagram, I posted that once again I put myself in a tight spot by signing up to do something that I didn’t know how to do. The…
To Stew, or not to Stew
Do you ever stew? You know, some event or conversation occurs and then it consumes your mental faculties for a time? For me it always happens because of a negative…
Patience
Deploying patience. That’s such a Gary Vee thing to say.I think about patience often. I did tonight, which is the genesis of this post.Tonight I sat on the edge of…
A Great Week at Work
This week was a great work experience.A year ago that would have been a difficult thing to say after the week I’ve had. Two years ago it would have been…