Send to Kindle Thanksgiving is this week, and so I desperately wanted to come up with a Thanksgiving themed post. I considered doing the cliché “things I am thankful for” post, and I even tried mind mapping Thanksgiving ideas. However, nothing really came to me. Then I pondered the question, what do I really like [...]
Send to Kindle Hello there! I was a bit late with my post last week – it has been a little bit crazy in my world; but I am back on schedule today with my Wednesday posts. And this one is one of the better ones I used to have some major procrastination issues and [...]
Send to Kindle On Using What You Have to Get What You Want – my practical advice to reaching your dreams. It’s so easy to find reasons not to do something. So many of us suffer from feeling that we have to stay exactly where we are because there’s just no way for us [...]
Send to Kindle We engineers are taught to look for problems and flaws at every turn. We search for the root causes of every issue and, the better we get at isolating problems, the better we are at our jobs. After all isn’t it our job to minimize risk, discover bottlenecks, and “code review” [...]
Send to Kindle We are all judges. One can try to stay open-minded, but inevitably they will judge and draw conclusions about every person that they meet. In the wild, animals are hardwired to make quick judgments about predators and prey to survive. And in many ways humans do the same. Whether it is [...]
Send to Kindle Mastering first impressions by learning to listen I don’t think enough before I speak and so I often say the wrong thing at the wrong time. And when I get nervous I have a terrible habit of talking too much. So you can imagine that these two things lead to a lot [...]
Send to Kindle The is a lot of power in being positive at work. Just think to yourself about what makes a good coworker? Most jobs don’t come with an instruction manual. And there are certainly no hard fast rules on what it takes to be awesome at work. But I bet when you thought about [...]
Send to Kindle Normally I don’t do this many personal posts in a row, but this week I was inspired by Jesse’s post, so I thought I would join in writing my own letter to my former myself a decade or so in the past. —— Dear Katherine (since you don’t call yourself Kate yet), [...]
Send to Kindle I love new years resolutions. I am one of those people who is motivated and excited by accomplishments and achievements. I make lists for everything; and everyday I savor the moments I complete an item on the list. And new years, like birthdays, are a chance to think about the future and [...]
Send to Kindle Time for a change In relationships, they say that people get an itch every seven years or so to make a change or shake things up. While I am not sure what the standard timeline is for jobs or careers, mine seems to be about 2 years. The last few years it [...]