Day 330 – Speed Usually Wins
In my early days of learning computer science, the concept of Ethernet was still relatively new. Most people today will not recognize this phrase, but to be brief, it is the modern way that computers are networked together in a home or office environment. Ethernet refers to how a network interface card negotiates for access […]
Day 329 – A Note on “Case Studies”
I have sat through more than one PowerPoint presentation in my lifetime. Based on the number of meetings in my calendar, sales presentations, and business reviews, I have averaged at least 4 per week for my career. That means I have the pleasure of having sat through at least 5,000 PowerPoint presentations. So I have […]
Day 328 – The Idea of You
A repeating theme in many epic novels, poems, and mythologies is that a Supreme Creator manifested the universe with many threads in a great tapestry. The ancient German concept of Wyrd, the Norse prose Edda, Plato’s theory of forms, and even Tolkien’s music of the Ainur all carry this concept. The idea is that each […]
Day 327 – What Moment are You Building Toward?
Yesterday, I was roaming around the halls of a hospital. After passing by this one room a few times, an older man yelled at me, “Hey! How are you? Thanks for coming by again!” I said hello back, and from that point on, he would start a conversation whenever I would walk past. I commented […]
Day 326 – It’s Not the Ritz – A Lesson in Realized Value
I am visiting a hospital today. A family member had an incident that required hospitalization. While walking down the hallway toward the guest room, I heard a woman talk about the accommodations there. She was commenting to her daughter, “Well, this place isn’t the Ritz, but the people are nice here.” I took a pause […]
Day 325 – Only So Much Room Under the Carpet
When scientists accept a paradigm, they fall into a framework that helps them understand the universe and use that basis for further experimentation to support or reinforce the original premise. However, sometimes an anomaly pops up. Something that is unexplainable based on the existing or current paradigm. Scientists will chalk this up as an irregularity […]
Day 324 – The One That is There
A few years after Kobe Bryant’s rookie season, the stories started to come out. Byron Scott came into the gym several hours before practice, and he could hear a basketball in the darkened court. The lights were not even on yet, and he could just barely make out the 18-year-old Kobe practicing his jump shot. […]
Day 323 – The Escalating Scale of Productivity
I think a new phenomena began in 1972 with the release of the HP-35 scientific pocket calculator. This is the escalating scale of productivity. Every year that goes by, we are expected to be more productive as individual task workers. That is exponentially increasing. For my entire life, I have been on this ever-increasing expectation […]
Day 322 – Above All, Be Genuine
I am not sure I realized at a young age just how valuable being genuine was. No one sat me down and explained the concept other than the insistence that I tell the truth. However, telling the truth and being genuine does not seem to be the same thing. Being genuine in everyday life seems […]
Day 321 – Personal Feedback Loop
This is a message to tell me and anyone else who cares to listen/read that you should build into your life a way to receive consistent feedback. In a business, we frequently talk about feedback loops, the concept of asking for and receiving feedback from our clients. This is intended for us to stay on […]