Reading Time: < 1 minI love hanging around optimistic people. Seeing the glass as half-full and a world of possibility is a great way to live. Beyond optimism, though, faith can be even better. In his book “Take Care of Your People“, author Paul Sarvadi compares them like this: Optimism hopes for the best, where faith takes action in […]
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Options shrink as your expertise grows
Reading Time: 2 minIf I’m driving along in my car and I hear a “thunk” as it sputters to a stop by the side of the road, I’ll likely have very little idea what happened. Other than knowing that it had a fresh oil change and a half-tank of gas, the possibilities for what happened are endless — […]
Two years of daily blogging
Reading Time: < 1 minToday marks two years of blogging every single day (minus a week when I had COVID). The past year has been super interesting, but my reasoning, cadence, and publishing have all been roughly the same. As explained in a recent episode of “The Long and The Short Of It” podcast about “Practice versus Project“, this […]
What kind of conflict is it?
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen you disagree with someone, there are two ways it generally can go: you can make it a relationship conflict or a task conflict. I encourage you to always work toward the latter. A relationship conflict is when you are fighting with each other. You make it personal, and it often drifts away from the […]
The 10 minute procrastination rule
Reading Time: < 1 minMany people that exercise consistently have a simple trick that they employ — they make it easy for their future selves to start exercising. For example, if you want to run tomorrow morning, the “right now” you is probably more excited than the “5am” you will be in the morning. If you can help yourself […]
Utility work is so annoying, but so great
Reading Time: < 1 minThe county is tearing up our streets again, and I’m not sure why. It seems to be some kind of conduit they’re laying down, but I’m not sure what for. It’s a mess. A few years ago they made a huge mess laying down new water pipes down the street. They (intentionally) destroyed the bottom […]
Buy the “gaming” stuff
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen people are looking to buy products for their business, they often ignore things that have the “gaming” tag on them. They want solid business tools, not toys for gamers. I think they’re often wrong. Recently, my wife needed a new computer chair that had better back support, so we got her this gaming chair. […]
The refs aren’t out to get you
Reading Time: 2 minWith football season once again in full swing, out come the people that are sure that the refs are biased against their team. It doesn’t matter what team they pull for — the refs are seemingly against every team, which doesn’t really make sense. Certainly refs are imperfect at every level; ideally a bit closer […]
Your team is losing by one point at halftime? Perfect.
Reading Time: < 1 minWhile I was reading Daniel Pink’s book “When“, he presented an interesting idea — if a basketball team is losing by one point at halftime, they have a better chance of winning than if they were ahead by one point instead. If it’s more than one point, the numbers start to shift rather quickly. A […]
The world is far better than you think
Reading Time: 3 minPeople often wish to “go back to a better time”, or reminisce about their childhood when “the world was a safer place”. It may have felt that way, but it’s almost entirely untrue. That’s not to say that things can’t be better — the world today is still a mess, but it’s the safest and […]