Massive Mouse

“A common time waster is mal-organization. Its symptom is an excess of meetings. Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. If executives in an organization spend more than a fairly small part of their time in meetings, it [...]

Character is like water. It will flow over, into and around any obstacles that are present. If it’s poisonous, it’ll undermine the system and sabotage the machine. If it’s healthy and nourishing, everything around it will grow and benefit.

“Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one. With his departure star astern and his destination star ahead, he could keep [...]

I really don’t like Drupal. I’ve been told that “it can do anything”. I think that’s its downfall. Most of the Drupal setups that I’ve used haven’t anticipated all of my use cases. In every case, I’ve had to go back to the developers and ask for additional functionality to be added. Of course, it [...]

The really good manager does not wake up in the morning and say, ‘This is the day that I’m going to cut costs,’ any more than he wakes up and decides to practice breathing. – Warren Buffett

“They say that bad things remain in your memory longer than good things, a thought originated by people who live monotonous, uniform lives. They do remember more of the bad because their ‘good’ is so uniform, so mundane, and so dull that they can’t remember it. Any unpleasantry, even the smallest, is a deviation from [...]

“I never thought I would be way happier when I had 2X instead of X. You ought to have a good time all the time as you go along. If you say, ‘I don’t really like this job, but in three years it’ll lead to this,’ forget it. Find one you like right now.” — [...]

People are often surprised that I never consume traditional media (newspapers, TV, etc). I call it “selective ignorance“. “Selective” because I pick and choose what my brain gets exposed to, and “ignorance” as a joke. Why be selectively ignorant? Because the mainstream media is worthless, sensationalist, ill-informed and devoid of any intrinsic obligation to deliver [...]

Technology is changing our expectations of writing and it’s a change for the better. The immediate access that the Internet, cell phones and fast food have conditioned us to expect is lowering our tolerance for the historically slow, painfully dry and overly academic approach to writing. I’m glad for the change. When I was in [...]

“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 recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine [...]