Preach vs. Tolerate
From the book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, a team’s success (or that of an entire business) will not be based on what you preach but rather on what you tolerate.
People, Product and Profits
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: People, Product and Profits. — Lee Iacocca
Consistency – Plant a seed…
If you plant a seed, water it for a few days and then stop, what’s the point?
Procrastination is life threatening…
A not-so-gentle reminder that procrastination left unchecked slowly destroys one’s life. Small errors in judgment (putting easy things off until tomorrow), lead to a life of regret.
A brainstorm…
I was unable to find these words strung together using Google: “A brainstorm derailed my train of thought into a stream of consciousness.” My thoughts get derailed quite frequently these days…
Avoid SOS and Focus
It is all too easy to succumb to the lure of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) when the true path is always laser focus on one’s vision.
Enso Atlas
I really love this image of Atlas carrying an Enso. Does anyone know the artist?
Lazarus on OS X (El Capitan)
For fun, just installed Free Pascal, the GDB debugger and Lazarus 1.6.0 onto my Mac. First I downloaded and installed, fpc-3.0.0.intel-macosx.dmg, fpcsrc-3.0.0-20151207-macosx.dmg, and lazarus-1.6.i686-macoxs.dmg from SourceForge.net. When initially launching Lazarus, the GDB debugger could not be found. The best guide for installing GDB on OS X (which works for El Capitan) was from Neil Traft […]
Year of the Firemonkey?
I’m wondering if the Chinese Year of the Fire Monkey will be good luck for Embarcadero’s FireMonkey Time will tell…
Three simple post-mortem questions…
In an effort to always learn, doing a post-mortem after any endeavor can be very helpful. I’ve found it’s best to keep the post-mortem as simple as possible and answer only three questions: What worked? What didn’t work? What should be improved next time? That’s it.