When, early in a day, we have a chance to engage our real work, we often feel real in return, purposeful and potent. If then we turn and attend to the problems around us, it will be no disadvantage that we bring our encouraged selves. A few of the more timid, trifling problems may even evaporate.
The only reason to travel is to do something that you can’t do unless you make the trip. This is verging on a tautology, but some tautologies can be useful anyway. This one works like this: if you could get what you wanted or needed without traveling somewhere else to get it, you wouldn’t travel. […]
Photo: Ryan Wick One of the things I teach in my “other life” is a very weird and wonderful problem solving methodology called TRIZ. The letters T-R-I-Z are a Russian acronym for what in English is called the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. In TRIZ, we talk about a system’s primary function. What’s the system designed […]