Seth says more: More or less You can either seek to get more out of an opportunity (job, technology, interaction, person, moment), or less. More exposure, more risk, more upside, more work, more learning, more engagement, more passion, more chance to be blamed, more opportunity to make a difference, more effort… or less. Zenhabits ...
My friend Agastya wrote: Miscommunication occurs when one speaker uses a word in one context, and another interprets that same word slightly differently due to his or her own preconceptions about what that word actually means. Was he talking about the analysis related to a tricky technology project? Nope, but he could have been. He ...
Everyone agrees that having being able to know where one’s time is spent is a Good Thing. However, there is no greater gap between understanding the need for a process and the pain involved in actually implementing the process than with time tracking. Everyone I know working in information technology hates the whole idea of ...
SEATTLE — Looks like more college faculty are opposing the use of laptops in their classrooms. My favorite quote from when a professsor serving on jury duty: “…recalled asking the stenographer if she found the case interesting. She replied that she didn’t remember anything she had taken down, Mooney said. “I thought, ‘That’s what my ...
A USA Today article from March 21, 2006 titled “Law professor bans laptops in class, over student protest” has reignited the long-standing debate about the better method of taking notes: by hand, or using some form of technology, like laptops or tablet PC’s. A little closer to home, last fall my nephew Matt used note-taking ...
An article last year by Mark Morford in the San Francisco Gate asked, “Why do you work so hard? ” Morford asserts that most of us are living the myth that “hard work is all there is” and supports this with examples of people enriching their heart, instead of their bank account, and in turn, ...