Live life like a game

Posted in: Life, Work- Feb 03, 2010 No Comments

As I kid I loved Snakes and Ladders. I don’t even know if you can find that board game anywhere anymore, but I enjoyed it. (Okay, I just found it on Ebay for $2). It was pretty simple. Basically you roll the dice to see how many spaces you can move forward. The first person [...]

Dying for a Good Time

Posted in: Goals, Life- Jan 08, 2010 4 Comments

This is the third time I have sat down to write this post. I keep deleting it. I watched a documentary this week in Sweden and I can’t put it out of my head. It was about a group of mountain climbers attempting to summit the second highest mountain after Everest (K2). I’m not going to ruin [...]

The Zen of Useful Distractions

Posted in: Culture, Life, Technology, Work- May 25, 2009 3 Comments

Information is empowering, but too much can it can also be debilitating.  Information Overload costs the U.S. economy $900 billion per year. In this interesting video a few of the world’s leading managers discuss the problem.  In Defense of Distraction discusses how our brains are adapting to make the most of the new information-rich environments [...]