I was looking through some of my old blog posts, wondering why I haven’t posted lately, and I noticed something. I have duplicate blog posts! Several posts tell the same story and provide the same message. (Finding the duplicates is an exercise left to the reader.) My first thought was dismay. How could I, who […]
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 […]
I’ve read in several places about the strategy of forming habits. That you have to do the same thing for 30 days in a row to start to form the habit of doing the thing all the time. And that takes discipline to do that thing consistently to form that habit. I’ve talked about this […]
Have you ever noticed that pretty much anyone, when looking at something for the first time, or joining a project or new effort, seems to always think it is a big mess? And probably needs fixing, perhaps even a complete throwaway and rewrite? I have a running joke that I frequently use, along these lines. […]
I distinctly remember a few years ago reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I recall that at about halfway through there’s a discussion on Quality. Specifically, the speaker asserts that Quality itself is not truly definable, and Quality is the breakpoint between rationality and…whatever the opposite of rationality is. One interesting thought experiment […]
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