Biking in the rain is a weird endeavor. One – biking is minimal impact to your body (unless you get hit by a car) so the exercise is good. But biking in the rain can become a miserable experience, you’re soaked, you have to be more careful and it’s hard to see. There is the option to simply not bike, but if you go one way, you have to go the other way to get…
This is a cool word. It means “to move or climb quickly but with difficulty”. The last part is what makes it cool. Everyone can move fast but are you willing to do it against difficulty, hampered, being held back. We see it sometimes as an extension of “Scatter” which is to go in a variety of ways all over the place but it’s not even close. But when we Scramble, we’re fighting against the…
What is the Problem that keeps you up at night? The answered question. What is the Problem you Need to Solve? (Not the one for your job, or school or for anyone else). What’s the problem, that you personally Need to Solve?
What do people love about the work you do? Have you ever asked them or are you coming up with that list on your own? Ask them. What do you like about what I do? This isn’t about you getting validation for what you do or feeling “awesome” about yourself (although it is an awesome side effect). It is about you hearing what people like (maybe asking what they don’t like) and realizing where your…
Over the summer I had an office flood followed by construction going on outside my window. The home office was no better with roadwork being done. I couldn’t stop the flood. I wasn’t about to tell me not to do work on their house or on a building I don’t own. But I did go buy some amazing noise-canceling headphones that blocked out the bulk of the noise and let me work. You can’t control…