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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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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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Recently, I was responding to the Windows Updates on Apple OSX desktop at work and I was presented the following choice:
Now, this is one of the reasons I ditched Microsoft Windows in favor of GNU/Linux way back when that was cool (it still is cool, but I sometimes need MSOffice). Now, my Macintosh is doing the same thing! Well done Steve.