Josh Peck - Nerdlog » Archive of 'Nov, 2006'

Lunch in Less than 20 Person-Hours

Digg!

Okay, I’ve officially had it with lunch at work! Every time we get more than two people together to get lunch, it turns into a fiasco. This is about how it goes:

Well-Meaning Hungry Person: “Hey Ted, I’m going to run to some restaurant, are you in?”

Ted: “You bet, I want …”

Now, it could end here and avoid fiasco status, but it doesn’t. The person who starts the lunch order thinks, “Gee, it would be polite if I asked others in the office too.” Here is where the whole thing starts to go wrong.

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Goals and Planning

So, it’s that time of year again. I’m beginning to start to put together personal and professional goals for the next year. I tend to do this process every fall so I don’t get lost over the winter and watch too much television.

Everyone keeps telling me that I need to have SMART[1] goals, but I don’t believe it. Anything really great that I have ever undertaken has started with a goal that was COMPLETELY INSANE at the time. There was no possible way to measure it and that was because I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

Clearly, I was naive when I attempted these feats, but I’ll let you in on a little secret…

I didn’t fail at all of them!

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