Kind of a grim title if you think about it, but it suits today’s subject which is going back to a serious topic about our skills and mindsets for working in the modern world. The world is still a dangerous place and those who are skilled and dangerous themselves tend to survive longer than those […]
Read more "Mindset and Skills: Too Dangerous to Live"It can be a really small world. So much so that it’s easy to realize that everything is inter-connected. So today we’re going to be talking about networking and how communities are much smaller than they appear. This blog post is inspired by two different occurrences that are both connected to Dungeons & Dragons. Now […]
Read more "The Smallest of Worlds"There’s always a level of pride that we put into things we create. But not everyone puts the same level of effort into the same things and that can be good or bad depending on the situation. So today we’re going to be looking at an example of handcrafting something compared to just slapping it […]
Read more "Handcrafted Excellence or Obsession."Today we’re going to be talking about the urge. This is not the urge to go out and explore or find new things or even try new things. Not the urge for a significant change in your normal. What we are talking about is the urge for a part of your normal that has been […]
Read more "Managing the Urge"The push recently has been the idea of absolute inclusion. As a business plan and a plan for having a good life, this is an extremely bad decision. To do a job or produce a product well you need to know who you are selling it to. This requires that you exclude individuals who do […]
Read more "The Cost of Exclusion"While this would normally be a Management Monday topic, I’ve been away for a bit and I wanted to talk about developing a support infrastructure. Individuals, families, businesses, and freelancers all need infrastructures of some form. They need resources to be able to do their jobs and survive in their environments. There are a number […]
Read more "Locally Source Resources."Monsters. What are they? Where are they? People who have never looked into them call people monsters without even knowing what identifies them as monsters. But there’s a dichotomy of monsters and we’ll be looking at the differences between the monsters and understanding how they work. Monsters are generally powerful. They have a combination of […]
Read more "The Monster You Need."My internet was pretty much unusable all of yesterday and the day before, so I had to make do with some off line projects I have been wanting to get done, mainly writing for a story contest and other creative things. Since I usually blow off steam at night I was face with the problem […]
Read more "Seeing Shades of Green: Equipment and Opportunity"A lot of the time we think about managing our resources in the light of physical objects or tools. Most of these are consumable and can pose a significant problem if the run out. However we need to remember another resource that is both consumable and long lasting. This resource is information or data depending […]
Read more "Information Mismanagement: I Have All the Horses."Sometimes we need to control an environment in order to achieve our goals and guard against decay. This applies both online and offline, so today we’re going to talk about me securing my house against an outside threat. No, it’s not home-defense or something similar talked about. It’s about pest control. I live in the […]
Read more "The Cost of Uncontrolled Environments"
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