This past week has been one of the most stressful in many years. I do not recommend buying a new house, while at the same time trying to backfill for three of my senior team members who have successively left the company. New house: we got what seems like an unbelievable deal on a house. […]
Finished a Game – First time in a Decade
For the first time in maybe a decade I played a game all the way through to the finish. I don’t have much time to play games, but I’ve been chipping away at Portal 15 minutes at a time. Not sure if it was intentional, but it seemed a little too easy. Like geared towards […]
A Vague Update
Unsure what to write about today… this has been happening a lot lately. Books that I read and hobbies are the driving force behind having creative and interesting things to write about on this blog and for the last couple of months work has been consuming most of my time and thoughts. It can be […]
Critical Drawing Skills
I’ve been slowly reading through the Walter Isaac biography about Leonardo Da Vinci. A fascinating book. It has made me think more about artistic skills and their importance to our overall ability to tackle complex problems creatively and critically, as well as to better convey those ideas to other people. The ability to think through […]
50 Year Apollo Anniversary
Hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. It’s a long time ago, before my time when all that action went down. The Apollo mission was created and launched with teams of inexperienced kids who were hired right out of college at the age of 21 and […]
Making Space
Been feeling overwhelmed a bit lately. Too many things happening at the same time, and things are starting to slip and get pushed more than I’d like them to – hence not keeping up with this blog and my podcast/videos for the last few weeks. There definitely seems to be the chance to cut out […]
Writing More
For the last couple of weeks I have been writing with pen and paper everyday. It’s a practice I hope to keep up for some significant amount of time. While this blog has been a personal log of mine for 16 years and over 1500 blog posts there are somethings that are not suitable for […]
Charisma
People are interesting creatures. One of the most interesting things that I’ve been amused by recently is that we often attribute complex behaviours to some unknown factor rather than actually trying to figure it out. Sometimes it seems better not to know. Charisma is something that I’ve been intrigued with for a long time, and […]
Choices
making choices is fundamental to being human. The choices we make affects the whole trajectory of our lives from minor everyday things like how do we react to a situation to big picture things like choosing a job or mate. If we had to consciously decide on all the choices we are presented with then […]
Geodesic Dome Model
Getting more use of my 3D Printer. I was looking for something to do with my hands over the weekend and found a nice project for building a geodesic dome. They are fascinating structures. ridged and lightweight, and I’ve wanted to build one for a while. Unfortunately I don’t have the space for a full-sized […]