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Everyone else is doing a year-end countdown, so here is mine. For the benefit of newer readers, you may have missed one of these ten most visited stories since I started the blog last January: 10. That’s a stretch – One of many posts dedicated to dedication… and reaching goals you thought you’d never reach.…
Have you ever charged into a challenge without really thinking it through? Some of the craziest things I did were during my college years, when impulsiveness and immortality often won the battle with my common sense. My dad always used to say “use your better judgment,” but sometimes I didn’t use any judgment at all.…
When is the last time you heard the phrase “Hey, it’s nothing personal, it’s just business”? Translation… “Hey, I know I just screwed you over but you should not be mad at me because it’s widely accepted that you don’t have to treat people as human beings in a business environment. So don’t make me…
There I was, running through the Great Mall of Milpitas and the clock was ticking. Just 4 days before Christmas and I was in hot pursuit of the Ultimate Gift! You know how every year the news media declares one toy as the hottest and the hardest to find, creating mass panic for shoppers everywhere? …
I admit it. I joined in on all the jokes about Tiger Woods’ “transgressions.” I think I needed to laugh to overcome the absurdity of a hero who has fallen so far, so fast. He was not just a sports superstar, he was an icon. Now he is just human. I stopped laughing at the…
Multi-tasking is not a crime. For knowledge workers today, it is a survival skill. If you can’t manage and filter streams of data coming at you from multiple synchronous and asynchronous channels, you are doomed to drift aimlessly at sea. The ability to keep swimming in a somewhat forward direction requires tremendous effort, and the…
I was standing there with three grown men arguing over who had the most useless junk in his garage. “I can’t even walk through mine.” “I can’t even open the door without junk falling out!” “I have to hire someone to move out some of the junk so I can see what junk I have!” I proudly proclaimed…
For a DJ, the worst possible disaster is dead air, the agonizing moments of silence when you should be filling the airtime with words or music and there is just nothing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a technical glitch or human error, you can almost feel the impatient audience “tuning out” with each second that goes by. They’re…
(Click photo for full size) This is Patterson Pass, a winding road that connects Tracy with Livermore, California. It snakes through windmill farms and dry pasture, often narrowing to just one lane, and the view from the peak is incredible. It’s kind of like those desolate roads you see in halftime commercials, where the luxury…
So many people are spreading thanks around this time of year. I see digital shouting in facebook, broadcasting thankfulness to family and friends. I can also sense silent reflection on what we have… not what we don’t have. It creates a collective epidemic of joy that is having an infectious effect on me. However, with…