A fictional job applicant’s information conglomerated from my actual experiences with people over time (client’s employees and pre-skills test CT employees):
I’ve been reading a very fascinating book, “Sapiens”, that has really helped me to think about things we humans take as absolutes in a new light. Concepts that we assume to be concrete real things… really just don’t exist except in our own imaginations. Everything from justice to money to laws to human rights to religion to politics are invented by human beings.… read more “There is no justice”
I am a little worn out on movies that glorify war, especially those that don’t really portray it accurately. No one stands up and runs around when they are under fire. You crawl from place to place.
I had an idea that I thought could help smokers, alcoholics, and gamblers.
Create a national registry that people can voluntarily add themselves to that associates their drivers license number with a self-ban list for their addiction of choice.
For example, a smoker could add themselves to the cigarette ban list. Any time the smoker went to a grocery store or convenience store to buy cigarettes, the clerk would scan their license.… read more “Self Ban Registry for Addictions”
I built a tool for giving my team ongoing feedback and launched it last week. What is my team’s reaction so far?
First, check out how it works:
A user can:
Lots of team members have been using it so far, here is a running log of the most recent feedback:
Seems to be quite helpful for people to share their thanks!… read more “Ongoing Feedback Tool”
“Mob mentality” is a powerful phenomenon sociologists have observed… a single human will seldom heckle another person or riot. However, throngs of sports fans will torch cars, protesters will storm government offices, and gangs will go to war over very small slights. Scientists have actually shown that your brain shuts off your sense of self during these times of collective endeavor.… read more “Permanent Mob Mentality”
Ten years ago or so, the Cloud was supposed to be the next big thing. It actually already was a huge thing with software as a service products hosted on the cloud exploding in popularity (Gmail, BigCommerce, MailChimp, and others).
Now most people take it for granted that their website and the apps they most frequently use are not installed on their computers, but are installed in the cloud somewhere.… read more “The Cloud”
I climbed two 10ds, a 10a and two 5.9s.
Child’s play and the one next to it were the best. I almost sent the arete but gave up too easy once on the rail when all I had to do was reach up.
Vistage so far has been a pretty great experience. I learn a lot doing the once a month all day training session with other CEO’s and it is good to have a coach who holds me accountable in 1 on 1s monthly.
I also have had the unexpected benefit of going to lunch with several of the CEO’s so far and they have shared a lot of good ideas with me and helped inspire me in new directions in the business.… read more “CEOs”
This blog post inspired my post here.
A fascinating phenomena occurs in both human society and in the natural world: a small percentage of sports franchises / businesses / species end up with a vast majority of the success. Why is this?
First, let’s look at some examples in human society as well as the natural world: