Recent Posts in ‘insights’
Generations
I am taking 5 minutes to stop and think without doing anything else at the same time. I never do this. I work with quite a few young people – young enough to easily be my daughters. I am conditioned by my own generation to see them as stereotypes – generation Z or Y. I’m
Popularity
This is just a shameless promotion for my wife. She is a co-editor on a great new book about Popularity in the Peer System. That’s all and check it out.
Babies and Miles
I am not “that person” who would show up at work, day after day, after winning the lottery. And no, I don’t have that wish for the one, super-special expensive and gratuitous purchase like M.C. Hammer gold bathroom fixtures or a Michael Jackson amusement park. All I want is to invest everything I have into
25 ways to rock the world of fatherhood
Now that I have 23 months under my belt, I’m obviously an expert on parenting. Ok, maybe not, but I am grateful for having such a happy daughter and although I can’t take full credit, we’re doing some things right. Other than being one myself, I don’t have a lot of experience with fatherhood so
Tornado in Norman
This was the view over our house last night about 10:30 PM.
The Purge
Despite the obvious Lost reference, this is about getting rid of stuff I don’t need and managing the things that I actually use. If I haven’t used it, worn it or remembered it in six months, it’s gone. I don’t live by this policy religiously and I don’t keep a running list of every item’s
Revised Revolutions and Resolutions
A week before the end of 2008 I had all ready started the process of setting resolutions for 2009. At first, I planned on being as careful as possible to make each objective specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, etc… Such specific controls are not always realistic or personally meaningful. Being strategic is important, but you have
Messy but Delicious
My official 2009 begins today, so I will close out the chapter of 2008 and fine tune the plan for 2009. I did something unconventional (for my own slightly risk-averse perspective) but absolutely necessary in 2008. After moving to a new city where there are fewer professional opportunities and a new daughter to raise, I
Positive Partnering
I could probably start an entire blog about partner / equity sharing horror stories and missed opportunities. There seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between great opportunities and terrible partnerships. There is little disappointment about plain old bad businesses. It’s when things go right or could have gone right and things fall apart that