Getting my head around my mind
Ten years ago, we wrote about the emergence of grassroots computing. We were well into an open source, social, web services landscape where the traditional CIO function had perfected generic IT, but was only beginning to empower employees to build the tools th... More »
Titles are not credentials. They help describe the responsibilities of an individual to facilitate success. The secret is that people decide what other people should be titled. It is in this unseen step that the train comes off the track. So, what do we do abo... More »
I am often accused of being a pessimist and always discard the idea as inexact. People say I am a realist and it is absent still of who I am. Complicated for sure. One of the most significant ways I see the world is through the eyes of many. Somewhere in the m... More »
In the absence of a government that can effectively govern, activism leads us. Most of us are not in the position to govern. We rely upon those passionate for that path to represent and act on behalf of the collective. When that process fails people become a... More »
Mortality is my first real exposure to Christopher Hitchens. I am certain I ran across him before, but this was my first book and if you have read it you know how ironic a place to start this is. It was his last writing before his death on December 15, 2011. T... More »
Recently I decided to make a concerted effort in booking air travel with two airlines, American Airlines and Delta. When I updated my American Airlines profile I opted into receiving flight notifications on my iPhone. Upon landing from my last trip, American A... More »
Yesterday I was listening to an Radiolab podcast on inheritance. The program was a sequence of three dives into the topic, with the second one describing the rub between nature versus nurture at a level one might not think exists. Apparently mother rats tend t... More »
Daniel Kahneman says that “We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.†If we... More »
Shawn Achor presents a compelling story of a condition that is systemic in most professional circles – happiness comes after success. Stay focused, work harder and eventually you will have success and then you will be happy – of course not! The challenge is th... More »
In high school I worked at a local quick-printer in town and among the many lessons was the relationship between cost, time and quality. My guess is if you have ever worked in a service job this is not a new concept. Wikipedia talks about it as the project man... More »
Conversations about careers and success seem to be on the rise. On the one had you have the unemployed, on the other those that are employed and on the third hand we have those that are employed and trying to do more than sit tight in uncertain times – they ... More »