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Category: Atomic Essay
Meditation Benefits for Professionals
Most of us have a certain set of beliefs that we have adopted over time, unconsciously, from our parents, teachers, friends, co workers, roommates, or others we spend time around. We do this without really identifying why. We end up…
Seven Deadly Wastes
Taiichi Ohno defined the seven biggest sources of waste as an engineer at Toyota more than 40 years ago. These wastes were responsible be for the majority of issues that arose in the business. These wastes still cause time, money,…
An intro to Lean Organizations
The term lean was coined in a 1988 article titled Triumph of the Lean Production System, written by John Krafcik. Lean, being a reference to having no fat, or nothing extra, is a methodology that aims to improve the output…
Time to Leave the Barbershop
The assumption we tend to make is that bad kids will influence good kids into doing bad things (same goes for adults).
Understand Before Automating
Automation has been all the hype for over a decade now. Millions of jobs are predicted to be automated away thanks to advanced robotics, more capable software, and more computing power becoming available every minute. Automation, though, is not a…
Dessert Before Dinner
As kids, there is this life goal of being able to eat dessert before dinner. Sugary, sweet, delicious desserts are so much more tasty than dinner. I've never met a six year old that would choose broccoli over cookies. Or…
On Interviewing People
Interviewing people for a job is hard. The primary goal of a job interviewer is to get a candidate to open up, to determine; Does the candidate have the skills and abilities to do the job?Is the candidate someone I…
On Manifesting the Future
We all want to matter. We all want to leave our mark on this world. We all want to be above average. The caveat, though, is that we are all tied to our past as well. Whoever we were in…
On Living with a Dog
Three days ago, my partner and I adopted a four month old puppy. He's an Australian cattle dog and blue healer mix (we think). His name is Pisco. Before Pisco, it'd been about a decade since having a dog. I…
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