Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cassius walk into a bar, and the bartender asks them what they’ll have. “3 beers!” Caesar proclaims. “2 beers,” whispers Cassius. Because I’m not a historian, I have the luxury of making spurious historical arguments that suit my purpose. I can even bring in Star Wars if I…
This week I’m starting the process of engaging more yak-shaving, but I think it’s important yak-shaving. If we’re going to be doing this SpecFlow thing in the series, let’s get it done right. In a post I made last week, Darren Cauthon took the time to put together this gist. I read through it and…
I’ve been reading a book called, “The Four Hour Work Week” lately, and the timing is pretty interesting. In the book, Ferris outlines a positively cold-blooded plan to seize control of your life and career using an approach that he calls “Lifestyle Design.” For me, the timing is interesting because “lifestyle design” is a good…
If I squint hard enough, I see an odd symmetry to my life that can be book-ended pretty simply with the phrase, “I want to build a thing.” I say this now, and I said it when I headed off to college, but I didn’t say it all that much in between. At least, I…
One of the serious difficulties about the life of a traveling consultant is avoiding weight gain. While this might sound like such a first world problem as to be 0.5 world problem, it’s actually a serious struggle. Living in a hotel, every meal is a restaurant meal, and restaurants tend not to optimize for low…
