Author: Adventures

I remember getting reprimanded in the second week of my first job after college.  I was hired on as a design engineer for a material handing company – think robotic cranes and airport conveyers.  My supervisor sent me an email, although he sat on the other side of the cubical.    He called me out for consistently showing up late to work.  The trouble was I didn't know I was being late.  I didn't even know there was a specific time to start.  Apparently I was supposed to be at the office ready to go at 7:30 am.   I saw other engineers...

If you’re anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with to-do lists.   I’ve been ‘blessed’ with the kind of brain that doesn’t turn off at five o’clock. I find myself up at two in the morning, ideas running around in my head like a stampede of wild elephants.   It’s only when I finally grab my iPhone, adding my genius idea to my ever-growing to-do list, that I can go back to sleep… confident that the idea will be there in the morning when I’m coherent enough to act on it. (It’s a 50/50 chance that the idea is...