In his book, Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi has a section entitled “Balance is BS”. The “balance” he is referring to is the work/life balance that so many people talk about. If you hadn’t read the rest of the book, or if you don’t know anything about Keith, you will likely be thinking, “This guy [...]
Tagged ArtOfLiving, Balance, Ferrazzi, networkingI, along with several others, was interviewed last summer by Lilia Efimova concerning my experiences as a Knowledge Management blogger using the blog as a networking tool. (The interview came about from my blog No Straight Lines, which started out as a KM blog). You can see a summary of my interview here. The short [...]
Tagged Blogging, KM, Mathemagenic, SocialNetworkingIf you watch the news or read the papers/magazines, you have undoubtedly heard about autism. Unfortunately, much of what you have heard is likely of the “doom-and-gloom” variety, telling you what a “terrible” and “devastating” thing it is to live with autism, how parents and educators have to “deal with” autistic children. As the parent [...]
Tagged acceptance, autism, parentingAs a Systems Engineer working on a huge system-of-systems, complexity is a part of my daily life. (I’m not complaining – I love it!). But not everyone involved always recognizes the situation as complex, as opposed to simply complicated. Of course, not everyone is in a position where they see the complexity; it all depends [...]
Tagged Complexity, Systems, SystemsEngineeringJust inside the entrance to the Art of Living Building in Downtown St. Louis is the following quote: A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreations. He hardly knows which is [...]
Tagged Balance, WorkLiteracyI use the 600 page Infinity Journal as my primary day-to-day wastebook, so I don’t have to start a new book very often, maybe once every 12 – 18 months depending on what’s going on. On the other hand, my digital wastebook(s) never run out of “pages” so I could keep using the same one [...]
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