“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. “ –Stanley Horowitz Now that it’s fall, too many people put their bicycles into the garage until spring. You may not want to bike in the snow (I have to check to see if my studded tires [...]
Yesterday The Weather Channel forecast that the afternoon temperature in Des Moines would “Feel Like” 113 degrees. That’s why I didn’t bicycle to the office. Last week my excuse was that the Raccoon River flooded the bicycle/pedistrian trails. Heat indexes? Bike/ped trails? Flooded river? Back in Cupertino, California, we rarely dealt with such things. Some [...]
Now that I’ve added my blog’s URL to my Gmail signature, I’m going to have to update my blog more frequently.
Recently I’ve picked up a series of books based on surveys about personal strengths conducted by Gallup, the pollsters and market researchers. My brother-in-law, who used to work at Gallup, gave me a copy of Soar with Your Strengths. In it the authors argue that each person has a primary strength and that you should [...]
“After we finalize the work plan, I’ll allocate a resource to work on this project.” my manager said to her counterpart. I realized that she was referring to me, while I sat next to her. At that moment I had become an unspecified human resource. Initially, I felt surprised to be so easily dehumanized. However, [...]
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” — Albert Einstein Today begins a period of creative pursuit. Although Einstein specifies reading as the diversion that may lead to lazy [...]
Timothy Ferriss, in “The 4-Hour Workweek,” introduced me to the concept of a low-information diet. A few months ago I tried it and liked it. However, I’ve fallen back into information gluttony, particularly at the news buffet. My browser displays a menu of bad habits: Google News, the Des Moines(IA) Register, the San Jose(CA) Mercury [...]
This is the first post. Many more to come. What are you grateful for? Charlie