I don’t know about you, but out of curiosity and whim, I’ve tried a number of times to “stop thinking” and park my brain and leave the “engine idling” there for a while, and I just can’t do it. Maybe if you’re a Zen master it’s possible, but not for me. Within seconds my internal [...]
I have a growing backlog of stuff I’ve been wanting to blog about, including continuing my Look Normal, Smell Different series and reviewing Deadly Viper, but my workload got very intense last week (both professional and personal), and there was a bunch of stuff I really wanted to finish. Thankfully, I did get a lot [...]
Well, it’s 5pm, and I’m tired. I got a bunch of freelance work done today in my home office (i. e., sofa), for which I am quite grateful. Let’s see, what’s going on around here… Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will launch in less than ONE HOUR!!! Woo hoo!!! (Only bad thing is that I [...]
As some of you may recall, I started working in San Francisco in May this year. I’d been to S.F. often growing up in Marin and Sonoma counties, but this was the first time I’d ever spent any significant amount of time in the city, especially near downtown (I work near Market St. in the [...]
I keep hearing all these pundits who cover Apple trying to find that mysterious, elusive, “X” factor that explains why Apple has become such a phenomenal success and an inspiration to a whole new generation of geeks and hipsters alike. It’s the rise of Mac OS X!…no, it’s the elegant, sophisticated design language!…no, it’s teh [...]
My thoughts and prayers are with the firefighters, law enforcement, and evacuees in the San Diego region of Southern California right now. The raging wildfires down there are wrecking havok on the landscape and on people’s homes and buildings, and it’s now been declared a federal disaster. What’s worse is that nobody’s quite sure how [...]
I’ve been on an interesting journey over the past few months as I’ve started playing regularly on the worship team for my church. In the past, I was always someone who played music and was a Christian, but only recently have I begun to play music because I’m a Christian. In other words, I’m learning [...]
I’ve had grave concerns about the subject matter contained in the Harry Potter books for some time now. This latest news regarding the sexuality of Dumbledore doesn’t exactly boost my opinion.
I’ve been reading a really different, refreshingly, brutally honest book on the pitfalls and potentials of being a solid leader and a decent person of integrity and compassion. It’s called Deadly Viper: Character Assassins, and I’ll be reviewing it on the blog soon, but in the meantime, check out deadlyviper.org. It’s pretty cool.
This may sound crazy, but if you really want to be a successful leader, you need to set yourself up for failure. What??? Shouldn’t that be: set yourself up for success? No, because the fact is that there is no single leader ever who has not failed at one time or another. We all fail, [...]
