Yesterday’s email was about learning new things. We tend to hate learning new things because we look dumb doing it. My kids hated learning to snowboard this winter. That was partially because it hurts to fall down and partially because it hurts to have people see you fall down. Well I just found … [Read more...]

Old dogs give up the first time it gets hard. The hate to look silly or look like it’s hard. We don’t like to struggle and, worse, we don’t want anyone to see us struggle. Kids take months to learn to walk. Years to learn to read and write. But when we grow up, if we aren’t instantly good at … [Read more...]

Tomorrow morning bright and early, I’ll grab the list of subscribers and shoot it off to my printer so they can run the latest edition of PAES. You have a few hours left to get ahold of this one. After that, it’ll be gone, poof! Just like that. Once in a while I offer back issues, like I … [Read more...]

People have different skills. Some are good at some things and some are good at others. Our old O.R. manager was a good manager. He had skills and techniques that I don’t have, but one move he uses that I thought was brilliant is that everything is always “just three weeks away.” We were in … [Read more...]

What can we do to be most helpful to the world and the ones we love as the storm approaches? For one, we can make sure everyone we know and care about is fully prepared for the storm that’s going to hit sometime around the middle of April. For some areas of the country, it’s happening now; for … [Read more...]