I was doing a question-and-answer one time at a university’s ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) club. This was a bunch of 18-22-year-old computer science majors. There were a couple of interesting technical questions but the overriding theme was about employment and careers. The main question was basically, “How do I get a job?” My answer […]
For quite a while, I was excited about the new videogame Cyberpunk 2077 being released. It looked to be quite an amazing game. When it was released, although it had many great aspects the game also had a lot of bugs and defects. One bug, in particular, made the rounds on social media, as video capture. It […]
Here’s an interesting leadership thought exercise. Let’s say your team is walking along lengthy paths, and there are a bunch of boulders in the way along the path. Which of these is your initial reaction? a) Run ahead on the paths and remove all the boulders or b) Make sure each team member has a […]
Happy Father’s Day! To the fathers who might be reading this, I encourage and hope that you are able to take this day to enjoy some time with your children, and also rest and recover. I know from firsthand experience that it can be hard to stay focused on growing and fostering your career while […]
After posting last week’s blog post, I realized I have more I want to say about effort versus results. Or more accurately, about process versus results. I heard a saying one time, it went along the lines of: “A sub-par team will produce sub-par results no matter what process is used. Conversely, a good team […]
After the last two blog posts, I have yet a third moving story. After the house was all packed and everything moved out, came the fun part…cleaning the entire house top to bottom. One particular task I performed was cleaning all the baseboards. So I did one or two rooms, using spray cleaner and rags, […]
OK, I have another moving story. We ended up getting two moving containers because we knew that we probably had too much stuff for one container. But we knew that there was probably not enough stuff to have to worry about cramming both containers completely full. There was going to be plenty of slack space […]
So I have been packing and preparing to move (which may be why I have been remiss in posting lately). This involves packing a lot of boxes, and then moving said boxes into moving trucks (or more accurately, in my case moving-truck-sized shipping containers sitting on my driveway). I spent a recent Saturday packing a […]
One of my first jobs was working at a pizza restaurant. There are many little tips and tricks you’ll learn over time at any job, and here’s an important one I learned when cooking pizza. As we would pull the pizza pans from the oven and transfer the pizza onto a cutting board, the pans […]
You know the old saying, “It’s not the act of doing something hard, it’s getting started.”? And once you get started it’s not that bad. I know that is true with me. If I have a task I need to do, like wash the car or mow the lawn or run on the treadmill, what […]
