Finding Clarity in an Ambiguous World
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The Terminal Velocity Of Change – Ourselves
All of us have things we wish were different in our lives, so we start initiating action to change ourselves. We’d of course like the change to be instantaneous and we’d like to change all the things we wish were different at the same time, but alas we encounter limits in our ability to change.…
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Asking Permission vs. Getting It Done
But won’t your manager be mad that you’re doing something that isn’t your job? – A good friend after I told him about a project I was working on that would help the organization but was never explicitly requested. What job description did you get hired into? – Two different people when I told them…
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Laughing At Failure
While visiting a friend who has a great espresso machine, I went to go grind some coffee in preparation of pulling an awesome shot of espresso. When the coffee grinder was under the cabinets, it looked like it had an open top so I took a handful of coffee and dropped it into the hopper…
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Technological Stockholm Syndrome
Just the other day, I had lunch with a friend who just started working as an engineer. I asked him whether he was enjoying his job. He said that it’s a bit different than he expected and that he’s spending a lot of time banging his head against the wall just to figure out how…
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Be Salty At Work
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” – Matthew 5:13 NKJV Ann and I enjoy watching Chopped, a cooking show where the chefs have a limited amount…
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Why Are There So Many Coincidences?
Imagine these graphs show the location of those living with a fatal disease. There are clearly some places that don’t have the disease and other places that seem more prone to it. I even circled a clump to illustrate that something is clearly wrong with that area and we should do more research, or should…
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Emotional Intensity At The Finish
When we need a pit stop during a road-trip, have you ever noticed how the urgency seems to increase just as we finally decide to pull off the freeway. By the time we arrive at the gas station, we feel like we are going to explode. Many times we assume that it’s because we just…
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Enough
Joe Heller – by Kurt Vonnegut True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than…
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Why Doctors Have Weird Names
Ever noticed that many doctors have funny, sometimes ironic names — names like: Dr. Bayer (asprin anyone?), Dr. Killam (yikes), Dr. Mooney (something he sees a lot of), and Dr. Strong. We’ve all heard people express surprise at the name of many doctors and wonder how they could have gone into medicine. My parents dentist…
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Are you more honest than the average person?
Imagine you are sitting in a room taking a problem solving test. There is no one else in the room, no cameras, no fancy mirrors. It’s just you. Next to you is the answer sheet and an envelope with $20 in it. When you’ve finished the test, you’re instructed to correct your own test, take…
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