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Dear Reader, How do you view your life ahead of you? Do you see your future as definite or do you view it more vaguely? I tend to see my future in nebulous chunks. Currently, I am in the experimenting-with-jobs / figuring-things-out chunk. In this part of my life, I feel like I am living... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Needless to say, you are reading this right now. This probably also implies that you understand words to be more significant than typed letters on a page. I was thinking about writing recently and thought about how powerful it can be. A few words one day on J.K. Rowling’s laptop years later turned... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Have you ever been part of a big production, like for theater, a workshop, or an exhibition? These sorts of projects are similar in that they usually involve a team, a lot of prep work, and months of planning for a relatively short event. When you work on such a project it usually... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Do you often complete projects in teams at work? Right now, at the office we are in the final stages of a very big, very complex project. Without going into too much detail, this work is something that has been on our calendars for almost a year, it has taken months of planning,... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, They say that it’s quieter when it snows. This is because snow absorbs sound. Have you ever been alone in the falling snow? This morning I walked to work before sunrise through a winter wonderland. It is so peaceful to see snow silently falling into a prestine white sheet. Untouched snow is so... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Do you know what momentum is? I am not a science-y person so I will not pretend to know more than I actually do, however, I do recall a simple definition of the term from a high school physics course. Momentum is, simply put, "the quantity of mass in motion." From a physics... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Do you jump on opportunities when they present themselves? If yes, do you always follow through with these opportunities? At a few of my jobs, the team is having problems with employee attrition. To me, the core problem is that many people, myself included, see new opportunities in a different way than they... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Have you ever participated in a Secret Santa, or as we call it in my office, a Secret Snowflake? Briefly, the tradition goes that a group chooses names out of a hat and receives the name of another participant. Whoever’s name that you choose is the person you will get a small gift... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Our bodies are kind of like machines. While it may sound like I'm praising humans for their efficiency or ability act logically, what I actually mean is that humans have problems, kind of like machines. If your computer is facing some sort of issue, you may receive an error message. Sometimes the error... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Do you dread Mondays? I didn't always, but now that my job has entered the busy season, I feel a sense of dread creep in every Sunday. I learned that I'm not the only one that feels this way. I looked it on Google and found a few articles, "Surprising 81% feel 'Sunday... Continue Reading →
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