Month: December 2011

  • When Life Breaks Relationships

    When Life Breaks Relationships

    Relationships are a complicated mix of expectations, communication and growth. In the short-term, relationships grow quickly with people whose life situation is the same as ours. Over time people’s circumstances change.  Sometimes it’s us, sometimes it’s the other person, either way it can destroy the relationship. When something life-changing happens, it’s normal for relationships to…

  • The Cheese Is Alive

    The Cheese Is Alive

    My French friend told me a story about cheese. After skiing with some friends in the Alps, they discovered a small chalet in Switzerland. Warming themselves up from the cold, they sat down at a quaint table. His face lit up when he spied what was sitting on the counter: “It was the most beautiful…

  • The Trails of Life

    Everyday is like a hike – most of the time we stay on the trail, occasionally we forge new ones. The trails represent the how of living: paths that we have either created or were taught by those who came before us. But unlike the trails on the mountain, many of our own patterns of…

  • Good Design Requires Many Unseen Iterations

    Anyone who has ever written software knows that if you were to lose your code after working for 3 weeks, you could rewrite it again in a fraction of the time. The reality is that finding the right solution is not a straight line, it’s iterative. Like this picture: Another great example of the process…