December 1, 2007
Take This Quiz: Are You an Under-buyer or an Over-buyer? | Zen Habits This took me about 30 seconds. I’m definitely an under-buyer. I revel in open, uncluttered space, get annoyed at piles o’stuff, don’t stockpile, and, consequently, I short myself on staples now and then (no milk or no cereal for a few days [...]
September 6, 2007
I remember where I was on September 11, 2001. I was at my old job, working on a computer, not tuned into the news, when a colleague called and told us to tune into CNN. A rushing sense of unreality, helplessness, and shock followed. Then, we invaded Afghanistan, and I worried about the long-term effects [...]
September 4, 2007
What is your occupation? Director of Happiness (aka project manager). What color are your socks right now? No socks. Bare feet. What are you listening to right now? Girish. What was the last thing that you ate? Leftover paella from New Bedford Portugese joint. Can you drive a stick shift? Yes. If you were a [...]
August 12, 2007
Funny, the books I’m reading this weekend are affirming each other. I suppose this means nothing more than I have consistent taste. I’m now reading The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner. He writes about the value of wilderness as more than just a place to hike, ski, photograph, raft, or play. He writes [...]
Two noteworthy events coming soon! MiUPA: Design for two different generations: a user experience challenge We all know about the Baby Boomers: they are a huge demographic, there are a lot of them, and they are now aging. But did you realize that there is a new generation that outnumbers the boomers? Called the “Net [...]
August 10, 2007
I just finished The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late, which details how we are running off of “startup capital” in a resource-draining, non-integrated way. The beginning echoed many environmental books – a depressing litany of all of the [...]
May 6, 2007
We are what we eat, and the choices we make about food matter in terms of our personal health, the health of the soil, and energy consumption. So, to act on our good environmental intentions, and to connect ourselves more deeply with our local community, we joined with another couple to purchase a Community Supported [...]
April 29, 2007
While I’m still playing with the idea of ridding myself of my automobile, more angst is coming from wrestling with whether I need to leave my job, or how I can change it so that I can stay. It’s funny. I have been reading Go Put Your Strengths to Work, and after the exercises in [...]
March 27, 2007
I have been meaning to write a blog entry about 12: The Elements of Great Managing since I finished it in December. I have a few excuses, none of them particularly good. Let’s see: I liked it so much I loaned it to a friend (HSG Consulting’s Principal), I liked it so well that I [...]
February 11, 2007
Continuing in the vein of the Art of War, I read Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy on the plane today. I brought it along with me to Florida because it was a thin volume, eminently packable, and because my sister, who gave it to me for Christmas off my Amazon [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105