To those who decry government inefficiency, I’ll see your DMV and raise you a cable guy. Or a tech support voicemail system. Or how about a stack of TPS reports with outdated cover sheets? I won’t deny that government isn’t at times byzantine and bureaucratic. It is. But it annoys me to see “job creating” …
I noticed it first in an office setting: people who insist in emailing files even when there’s a networked drive available. It’s a much better use of time and brainpower to leave the file in place and let the software track the changes. But I know people who insist on emaiing files and editing them …
Are you working. or are you playing office? There are an awful lot of office workers out there who “play office”, like a little kid imitating her parents. This is a subtle and pernicious form of what Steven Pressfield calls “resistance”. What makes it so terrible is that, unlike checking Facebook or chatting with coworkers, …
Fax machines are a fascinating anachronism. A modem fax machine is just a low-quality scanner and a dial-up modem. Faxes persist because of people who think that something’s not real or official until it’s on a piece of paper. I’d like to say it’s a generational issue, though there are enough exceptions — both young …
The other day I took a walk. It was a beautiful day outside and I needed to get out of the office. I grabbed an apple and started walking around the little office park where my building resides. It’s pretty unimpressive. Just concrete office buildings and concrete parking lots. Even the little creek running through …
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