Category: Attention
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Squirrel!
Sometime ago, I showed up at a potential customers office to provide a demonstration of our software product. When we entered the conference room about 16 employees had already arrived. Normally in this situation, people would be making small talk or joking among themselves, but in this case, they were all actively working on their…
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Scarcity Trap
Over a decade ago, a friend and I went to California for some training on a new way the program managers wanted to schedule our work. During the training, the instructor asked, “Suppose you have 4 tasks that depend on one another B depends on A, C depends on B, and D depends on C.…
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Level Set
Ever start working out and a good song comes on, so you turn up the volume. The next song gets your fist pumping, volume up. A few more good songs and then the bass drops, turn it UP! Then you start wondering why your ears are hurting, it’s too loud, so you turn it down…
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Forest For The Trees
Today I went to go replace a headlight in our Suburu Forester. After watching a video online to get a quick overview, I confidently thought it would only take a few minutes. Pop the hood and easily see the bulb. First question enters my mind as there is no cover on this bulb and there…
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White Knuckled Grip
Gambling ought never to be an important part of a man’s life. If it is a way in which large sums of money are transferred from person to person without doing any good (e.g., producing employment, goodwill, etc.) then it is a bad thing. If it is carried out on a small scale, I am…
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Photographic Memories
One year when I was in High School, my aunt,uncle and cousins (all around our age) drove their camper trailer out from California and we met them in Durango with our family trailer. I wasn’t able to make the trip that year, but my uncle who enjoyed amateur videography, made a video that made the two-week…
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Negative Flow
A friend of mine started feeling on edge all the time. His nerves frazzled he told his wife that he thought he needed to start drinking some tea before bed to get some sleep. This surprised her since he had never needed something like this before. She also noticed that when he was playing a…
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Hypocrisy
hy·poc·ri·sy noun the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense. We see it everywhere: people condemning others for the very thing that they do themselves. And we see the response to this, people railing against, complaining about, and outraged with other people’s hypocrisy. After all,…
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Vulnerable
At one point, my family traveled to Africa to visit my sister who was working on a medical mission. We decided to go on a safari as a family but the company only took cash. The largest size bill they had in Kenya was not very large and as a result, my dad had to…
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The Imperfect Balance In Relationships
Several years ago, when my friend’s wife turned 30, he invited many of their friends to play a game at their house. Each person came dressed as a particular character and then played out their role. The premise was that we were all stuck on an island, there were a limited number of boats and…