A friend attending a conference populated by, designed for, and speakers taken from the populace of highly technical folks (i.e., geeks) related this story, which I found to be both funny and enlightening.The conference runs from 900am until almost 1000pm each day. ...
As a follow-up to the previous post on things that shouldn’t be said, there are also things that should be said.I was a newlywed of less than a year when I had some great advice passed on to me from someone who quoted it as being passed to them from a wise sage...
One of the phrases I hear a lot (more than I should — heard it today) in both private and public conversations is “I really shouldn’t say this, but…” When appropriate, I usually cut the speaker off and respond, “Then...
Had a student show up late to class the other, which is far from unusual. While my personal preference for honoring time is to be on time and start on time, I don’t draw attention to an individual’s lateness and do what I can to make them feel welcome. ...
Asked to guest teach an hour lecture at church. Love to, said I. Spent time with the content — new to me — and had things all lined up. Perhaps not my best effort, but a winner nonetheless, I figured.Looked in my notebook a bit before class and...
Having just come off a string of about 10 days training, teaching, and consulting, the body naturally is a bit run-down (not unlike the Carolina Hurricanes, who apparently feel similarly, but I digress). Anyone who thinks that it isn’t exhausting work to talk...
