I was having a conversation with my old University roommate the other day and he brought up the story of the time I text messaged him repeatedly in a non sensical panic. I had long since buried the memory. It was the day I got forked. He was in the lab with a couple of…
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Happy 2012!
Happy New Year! 2011 is over and I hope it was good to you. Let’s aim to make 2012 even better. 2011 was a good year. It was probably my best year in terms of learning. School gave me the opportunity to touch on subjects I wouldn’t have found on my own, as well as…
2010 Annual Review.
Annual reflections are a good little exercise to try. It helps put things into perspective by taking a look at what went right, wrong, nowhere and somewhere in between in your life. This helps with planning on future direction and gaining insight. I would encourage everybody to give it a go. At the end of…
The Agony of Defeat and The Sweet Taste of Victory
This year so far has been one of those crazy transitional ones for me. Its probably the most uncomfortable and challenging time I’ve been through, but also the most rewarding. Everything I have been doing or trying is not second nature to me. Its been fail after fail. I got demoted at work. It seems…
Conventional Wisdom is Many Times Very Wrong
I am pretty sure conventional wisdom has been passed on for the sole purpose of keeping people in check. You know, don’t walk into oncoming traffic, don’t shower with poison ivy, don’t poop where you eat, if a cheetah is going to eat you you probably shouldn’t let it, etc. But conventional wisdom is often…
The year of the FAIL. A look back. And forward.
Failed projects. Failed relationships. Rejection letters. More FML moments than I care to admit. Mugged in my investments. Brick walled in my career. Death of friends. Stolen identities and hacked accounts. I look around and see broken glass everywhere, and I can’t help but smile. In a year of more failure than I can shake…
