Category: Pondering
Time for a Face to Face, or Why I Ditched the Laptop at Meetings
It doesn’t matter who you are meeting with. Each person in a meeting should have your full attention. Not the device that separates you.
The Importance of Understanding Scope, and How to Plan for the Unforeseen
Estimating a project is a learned skill akin to becoming a Sorcerer Supreme. To be honest, I am not even…
Television: the Internet Drug of the Nation
Newton Minow once called Television a “vast wasteland”. He would later revise his thought to describe Television as a “Toxic…
Lifted: It was bound to happen sometime.
It’s been a busy few weeks, so I won’t bother anyone with excuses. Needless to say, their are times when…
Happiness Project: I haz a happy! Now Go Cultivate Some Awesome
@BgKahuna recently posited a question How Do People Achieve Happiness? How do you define it? Westerners define it differently than Easterners….
In which I thank the cast of One Knight Wonders: Breaking out of your comfort zone (or “How to learn to crack your own shell”)
I’m performing improv for the first time in 20 years. I am full of butterflies. Not only am I performing…
Controlling your own rudder: We few. We happy few.
I turned 40 last summer. It was kind of a non-event for a milestone birthday really. We were in the…
Sometimes you just have to make crap
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Adrift at sea. Finding your sea legs
Sometimes, the best time to find yourself is when you’re lost at sea. The waves are crashing down on you….
Social Media is the new Agent Smith
My favorite recent headline in regards to a social marketing campaign had to do with an organic farm having the largest virtual blueberry patch grown in one of the world’s largest online farming games (the one that displays it’s annoying banner everyday in my Facebook news feed). This, to me, is like saying I got the first prize for being the world’s tallest midget.
Criticism’s Counter Argument
Still working on the site. It’s funny, the one client that you will always have problems meeting deadlines for is…
Life is not still
I have always been fascinated by still life paintings. They capture a very small moment in time when it appears…