In the world of trying to succeed, trying to make every minute account, trying to deliver, deliver, deliver. Trying to squeeze ever iota of productivity from what you are trying to accomplish. Sometimes you need to simply do something wasteful, something dumb, something so utterly unproductive that afterwards all you can do is look back and smile at the day you had. If you need to have some modicum, some tiny sliver of productivity associated…
You put off writing, anything, something because you don’t have any ideas. So you sit and you wait for the perfect idea to come to you. The idea that will generate 10000+ likes in its first hour alone. But still, it doesn’t come and you wait some more. But really what you need to be doing is sitting down and putting pen to paper, finger to the keyboard because only then will you start writing,…
It can be a very difficult proposition to not feel broken and lost after a meeting has gone off the track, derailed by a single person. Or a project that you put your all into delivering, despite all the setbacks and unknowns only for a single person to comment how it’s still late. Or to pick yourself up, exhausted from everything you gave, only to have that single person ask when you are going to…
New technology can be a little daunting, especially when you are no longer going greenfield and have to move an existing application to a new platform. But it can be so exciting, so much to learn, so much to understand, so much to try out. And then we pick up the old system and dump it onto the new platform, not changing a thing, leaving it as it were and moving on. We pat ourselves on…
When the need to be first outweighs the need to figure out how to get there we have become a Lane Changer. When stuck in traffic, I sit there and I watch people frantically switching lanes, hoping to get ahead of everyone else hopping between lanes, all goals thrown out the window except for being there first. Forget the anxiety everyone around you must now insulate themselves from as you jump in front of them…