Day 311 – Methodology is not Strategy
I saw this video demonstration of the frequently discussed “double-slit” experiment. If you are not familiar, effectively, when you have two parallel slits in a barrier and you send large objects towards it, some of the objects will make it through. You would expect, and it does happen, that this will produce the effect of […]
Day 310 – Weird Is Awesome
Here is a perplexing consideration. If you do things that are unexpected, then people think you are weird. If you do things that everyone else is doing, no one will pay attention to you at all and, therefore, have no names to call you, weird or otherwise. There is always a dance between being normal […]
Day 309 – When to Make Tough Decisions
The time to make a tough decision is right now. In my experience, the more you delay a tough decision, the more painful it gets. You usually have to make these types of decisions when something or someone is not working out for you or your company. The reason these are tough is usually that […]
Day 308 – You are Single Threaded
Some fundamental signal-processing concepts in computer science are often used to describe human behavior. These phrases are often times referred to as if they are factual when, in reality, they are completely false and often times confusing. The English language started incorporating these terms into daily vocabulary in the mid-20th century. I feel bad for […]
Day 307 – Trust the Process?
I was watching the woman’s 400 meter relay and heard one of the announcers say, “she really learned to just trust the process.” He seemed to indicate that was her reason for success. I will grant that claim, I suppose, but what is the process? I imagine for an Olympic athlete there is a well […]
Day 306 – Accuracy Costs
Every time you come up with a question to ask an organization, the price tag associated with the answer scales with the accuracy you want. This seems like an obvious observation; however, I have years of firsthand experience that would prove otherwise. People in executive positions love to ask their organization questions. When they get […]
Day 305 – The Taming of Pegasus
I am on a Greek Mythology path now, thanks to my daughter. I was in a conversation in which I was encouraging someone to work hard to achieve a goal of theirs. The person responded by saying, “Lord Willing.” After the conversation, this caused me to take a pause and evaluate what this actually meant. […]
Day 304 – The Lernaean Hydra
During a walk yesterday, my daughter registered a complaint about her summer homework, which concerns Greek Mythology. Her assignment is to read selections of Ancient texts and annotate them. She said she thought these stories were rather stupid because the Greek Gods were guilty of all sorts of depraved behavior. I really had no argument […]
Day 303 – The Refutation of Dataism
This article is a story about a couple of characters that I have completely made up for the purpose of demonstrating a rhetorical interplay between people that happens quite often. Have you ever been in a situation where someone throws out a fact that no one has the ability to check in order to discredit […]
Day 302 – Faith is NOT Belief
I think we need to change the English word faith to be a verb. This way, it cannot be confused with the verb believe because the word will inherently require being put into the action phrasing of a sentence. Let me provide an example. “I have faith that the marketing team will come through and […]