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Every day we share is an adventure.Some days have some new fun trip,many comprise the usual and no new venture.What I cherish is your companionship.With you along with me (and the doggo, too),in this life every day feels new! Me, 2022.03.17 Continue reading…
🎧 On Memory, Meaning, Quitting and How to Make Your Soul Grow
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 011 Continue reading…
🎧 A Special Guest, Limiting Beliefs, Gardening, & The Circle of Discomfort
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 010 Continue reading…
What is it Like to Have OCD?
May this help those who do not struggle with OCD support those who do Continue reading…
🎧 Physics, Stoicism, & Environmentalism Oh My! Plus: When Did You Decide Who You Want to be?
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 009 Continue reading…
How to Start Reading and Never Stop 📖
I’m not one of those people who reads 50 books a year. I’m not even one of those people who pledges to read 50 books a year and fails. I’m closer to the average adult who hasn’t read anything longer than four pages since school. Or, at least I was… Continue reading…
Quality Time is a Myth 🕒
It’s midnight on a weeknight and I’m in less of a hurry to get to bed than I should be. I’m sitting at my workstation in the second bedroom lit with the diffused glow of an incandescent lamp positioned behind my computer monitor. Continue reading…
🎧 How to Conquer Your Okay Plateaus, How to Turn Your Condo into a Wind Farm, Why You’re Special (i.e. Not ‘Average’) and How Fermented Foods Make Your Microbiome (Maybe) More Diverse!
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 007 This week Michael & Robert try to conquer the podcasting Okay Plateau (4:40), make sense of downtown wind power generation (17:05), learn why they’re special (i.e. not average) (30:00) and have a healthy discussion about the microbiome. (47:53) (Plus we learn that Michael can’t read 😳) Continue reading…
When Was The Last Time you Changed your Mind?
That day in September was hot. After the speed-walk from the front of the park through the maze of barriers littered throughout Epcot we were covered in sweat. We were racing to the standby line where we hoped to hear news of people no-showing for their reservations. What happened next changed my perspective on life. Continue reading…
🎧 Learn How to Converse Better, What it Means to Evolve, Why Going to an Ivy League is Bad for you, and What it Means to be a Napper.
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 006 Continue reading…
How to Overcome Fear & Insecurity When you are a Content Creator 😨
I had decided making stuff was worth it so I started. Then came the doubts. I was ready to walk away. Except I didn’t. Here’s how I stopped my brain from freaking out and kept going. Continue reading…
🎧 On Friendship, Sustaining Success, Sounding Confident (According to Grammar Experts) and…tires?
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 005 Continue reading…
Vlog: 2021.12.05
What I Learned After Vlogging for a Month
I’ve been creating Youtube videos for a month now, since November 8th, 2021. They have been vlogs of 2-10 minutes in length. Here are my observations 1 month in it. Continue reading…
End of Year Report: 2021
I believe reflection is an important part of personal growth. Rather than reflect on successes and failures alone. This is a exercise in reflection structured around by personal priorities. Continue reading…
How to Work Faster
What to do About That Feeling That You’re Not Going Fast Enough Continue reading…
How to be a New Manager
2 MAJOR Adjustments to Make When You are Promoted to Manager Transition from a ‘doer’ to a ‘manager’ is difficult. Books have been written about how to be a manager. Lots of books. If you don’t have time to read all those books, this is a good place to start. Life B.M. (‘Before Manager’) you’re… Read More »How to be a New Manager Continue reading…
How to Improve Your Working Situation
I improve a process and I share the process with the team. Everyone wins. I create a tool or automate something that’s usually done manually? Great. Everyone can use that. I join a committee to affect change? I get to add a participation award to my resume and feel like I’m contributing. 3 Reasons Committees… Read More »How to Improve Your Working Situation Continue reading…
The Guide to Project Management for Beginners 📝
Project management is story telling. When I think of great authors in history, I think of big brained creatives, creatives who were more like hippies than like me (in my day-time form that I assume between 9-5 Monday to Friday). When you’re managing a project you’re the author ✍️. You’re the nexus of information that ties the multiple threads of information across dimensions of time, space and people together. The publisher may have solicited you to write a particular type of book, but when it comes to the implementation of that vision, it’s you as the project manager that has the power to make it successful or to let is crash and burn and fall out of the eyes of historians eager for an excuse to document your work. Continue reading…
How I’m Making an Impact on The World 🥊
Everyone is the protagonist in their story. If we all interacted respectfully with the NPCs in our lives, the world would be a better place. Life is not a video game where we try to make the NPCs look silly. This is the real world. I want to make a positive impact on the world.… Read More »How I’m Making an Impact on The World 🥊 Continue reading…
‘Survivor’ is the Best Television Show.
The knock against reality TV shows is that they’re only as good as their premise and producers. I think there’s more to it. Any (non-government-subsidized) TV show is an entertainment product. And, an entertainment product thrives when its entertainment-value is sustained over time. If it’s not sustained over time the show dies. Continue reading…
The Vision.
Who? This space is for curious people looking to improve their lives. What? I write about how I’m building my life. Why? Early on other’s help us grow. Later, we must choose to continue on with our learning, our training (ala Paul Atreides from Dune). This site is built on that thesis. So what? I… Read More »The Vision. Continue reading…
My Health Strategy ✔️
I want to be healthy today and for the rest of my life, but my current strategy is “don’t worry about it until it’s a problem.” That’s a terrible strategy. What am I going to change? Continue reading…
🎧 What The Heck are NFTs???
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 004 Continue reading…
How I Perfected My Calendar 📆
The problem is, I can’t find a schedule that works for me. They’re either too restrictive, too much work to maintain or pointless because I don’t do what they say. I haven’t thrown out my calendar. Instead, I’ve found a solution that’s both helpful AND freeing! Continue reading…
My Financial Strategy 💰
My current [honest] strategy in a sentence would be “treading water and crossing my fingers that I live until retirement…” which is objectively terrible. I want to be rich. If I put on my nerd hat I might say I want to “remove money as a limiting constraint” so when I spend money I don’t… Read More »My Financial Strategy 💰 Continue reading…
How to Draw a Dream Map: The Pieces 🏷️
What are the bridges, rivers, lakes and roads that make up my Dream Map? Live the dream! Use a Dream Map to get there. But where to start? The Dream Map operates the same way as a regular map, establishing a bridge between the abstract and reality. There are places, roads, and other symbols on… Read More »How to Draw a Dream Map: The Pieces 🏷️ Continue reading…
10 Beliefs That Make The Dream Map Work 📚
If I can’t possibly know what life will throw at me, and possess zero foresight into the future with 100% certainty, what can I do to prepare myself for the inevitable adversity that will stand in my way as I begin on this journey? The Dream Map is the biggest project I’ll ever take on.… Read More »10 Beliefs That Make The Dream Map Work 📚 Continue reading…
🎧 Media, On News Dieting, Negative Press, Media Manipulation and…mushroom bags?
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 003 Continue reading…
What on Earth is a Dream Map? 🌏
I have agency over my life. I cannot predict the future, I can only influence it. I control the inputs to my life and affect the outputs. A Dream Map is a mental model that helps me to orient my daily life in the direction of my dreams. It is a heuristic that informs my… Read More »What on Earth is a Dream Map? 🌏 Continue reading…
What Does Success Mean to me? 🤩
Will I Know it When I See It? Merriam-Webster defines success as “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.” The problem I have with this definition is that it’s hogwash…It does not give any latitude for forging your own path. My definition of success is intensely personal and clearer now than ever… Read More »What Does Success Mean to me? 🤩 Continue reading…
Why I’m Forging my Own Path to Success 🔨
It’s not just acting with intention. It’s acting with intention on steroids after a bunch of mushrooms, unleashing my creativity, passions, purposes and wishes onto the canvas of my life to do what I can to shape it towards my dreams. I’ve made it this far without a Dream Map. What went wrong? Or what… Read More »Why I’m Forging my Own Path to Success 🔨 Continue reading…
Mapping Out The Life I (Really) Want 🛶
… and willing it into existence What’s the problem? It’s certainly not that I don’t know what I want out of life. I want it all, happiness, riches, social status and the like. I don’t think myself uncommon in that regard. The problem is that despite a decade toiling away in corporate America, I’m not… Read More »Mapping Out The Life I (Really) Want 🛶 Continue reading…
🎧 Career, On Climbing the Ladder, Entrepreneurship & More
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 002 Continue reading…
How to Kick-Start Your Projects 🏁
As a consultant, my number one objective for any project is to meet the outcomes laid out in the statement of work. By the time I get involved in an engagement, the statement of work has been signed and the project teams are onboarding. My aim as the leader of the consultant team is do… Read More »How to Kick-Start Your Projects 🏁 Continue reading…
Getting to Manager 🧗♂️
So you just graduated and you’re starting a new job as a consultant. Everyone wants to move to the top and these days the play book is to job hop. I’m a technical manager with 9 years of experience in a technical consulting firm. And, all 9 years have been at the same firm. I… Read More »Getting to Manager 🧗♂️ Continue reading…
🎧 Maiden Voyage, On The Dark Side of Charitable Giving, Perfectionism and Selfcare…oh and flexible work, too
The Variety Show w/ Michael & Robert Ep. 001 Continue reading…
What The F*ck are You Doing with Your Free Time? 🎈
Do you often find yourself upset because you can’t find the time to do that thing you want? There’s gotta be a better way! I’m here to tell you there is. Recently it dawned on me that I spend a lot of my time wishing I had more time to do the things I want.… Read More »What The F*ck are You Doing with Your Free Time? 🎈 Continue reading…
The Bare Minimum Guide for How to Run Effective 1:1s
To make a positive difference on your teams it’s so important to have strong relationships with your direct reports. And the bedrock of that dynamic is your 1:1’s Continue reading…
6 Reasons to Start a Blog that have Nothing to do with Money
I decided to start a blog this year. Blogs are at their lowest popularity since Google Trends started measuring. I started a blog despite that. The United States doesn’t search for blogs. If we stick with Google Trends as a measure, blog interest in the USA geographical region is ranked 25th. I started a blog… Read More »6 Reasons to Start a Blog that have Nothing to do with Money Continue reading…
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