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Dear Reader, we often hear the sentence “Do this job quick and dirty, don’t spend too much time and effort into it”. What is rarely understood is that “quick” passes quickly, while “dirty” stays dirty. The effort of cleaning up later… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I am prone to fall into a sense of inadequacy, more often than I would like. That feeling is sometimes the cause of a certain kind of paralysis: how can I act, if I’m not adequate/good enough/self-assured? In a… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, How many times you saw one of your proposals (when it was a reasonable one) rejected because “Yes, but it doesn’t solve the problem straight away”. “Yes, but the problem is bigger than this”. “Yes, but it does… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, You may have had an idea, a vision for the future, based on what other people are doing. Someone will tell you that “in our organisation, this is pure science fiction”. Tell’em this: “Since someone is doing it,… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Children have an uncanny ability to keep scores. They are used to play, remember goals, hits and tokens. They also tend to remember missed promises and broken vows for like… ETERNITY! A child knows if you are trustworthy… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’ve already written about one aspect of caring (see my post Intensive care unit), but there is another one close to my heart and that I feel is often underrated. In many simple conversations or even in writing we… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Saturday I was visiting a nice little pond near my house, its name translates literally to “Frogs’ Lake”. Here is a photograph: While my kids were playing constructing some fortification with branches and I was sitting on a bench… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, In one of my previous posts (Here the link) I reasoned about the abundance of details that can bring greatness to a piece of work. What I did not write is a more actionable aspect: what can I… Continue Reading →
The educated person should never be afraid of proclaiming his ignorance.
Dear Reader, Very often these days I see people operating in what I call “subtraction mode”: “For me to have more, you need to have less.” The “more” to be had is whatever more you may imagine (money, freedom, rights,… Continue Reading →