Category: Learning

An image of a whiteboard with faint traces of previous writings and diagrams, creating a visually distracting pattern. The whiteboard is in an office

Attention on a Hazzy Whiteboard

Switching attention leaves residue. Sometimes I feel like I’m swimming through that residue. The schemas I’m holding need focused and sustained attention, and the cludgy remnants of previous mental states and distractions makes the thinking I enjoy turn into thinking that is exhausting (and poorly done).

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How to look at Problems

Every organization I’ve worked for encountered problems and challenges. I am a problem solver. I like to fix things (sometimes to a fault – I

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Diverse Experience

I’m working my way through David Epstein’s excellent book “Range”. The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience,

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Second Chance

Second Chances

A late summer sinus coded hit me upside the head this weekend. While I still managed to cut a small forest down in our side

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