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Picking the solution is the easy part, it’s the options that take time. The analysis, the evaluations, the comparison, and narrowing down to the most applicable is the most important work that happens before you give out the options. It’s not easy work, but when presented to those who need to pick a solution, it greatly simplifies their lives and makes moving forward that much easier. When the option analysis is convoluted, messy, incomplete, or…

Truth be told, I have no idea where I want to work right now. I’m still trying to figure that out. But while I’m still trying to figure it out, I’m not going to sit and stare out at the great blue sky and hope it lands in my lap and solves all my problems all at once. That won’t happen. Never has, never will. Doors can open, but generally, we either push them open…

The work you do is not necessarily what you’re going to be good at. The work in between that gets the work done is where you are going to excel. In every job, whether it’s fast food, retail, building tables, carpentry, electrical, hedge work, programming, testing, requirements, architecture, etc, etc – it will ALWAYS be the work in between that will make you succeed and it’s here that the greatest lessons you will ever learn…

Got too much stuff? Give it away. Don’t know what to do with something after staring at it for days? Give it away. Not sure if you are ever going to use it again? Give it away. Know someone who could use it? Give it away. You don’t need to turn a profit on everything, sometimes you can give it away to those that need it most.

How many alerts do you need when you sign up for a service? What is enough? What matters? Notifications and Alerts are great when done correctly, of value, and give you what you need. But when overused, they become emails sent to the trash. If you’re sending notifications, ask what their purpose and value are if you were to receive them in your inbox. If your first instinct is to delete, you’ve probably missed something…