It’s inevitable

August 19, 2020

The thing about bureaucracy: nothing you can do about it - you can rail against the world if you like but you still have to knuckle under and get it done.... READ MORE

Miserable luck

August 16, 2020

It may never happen. It probably won’t happen. I can’t see any way that it will happen. It happened. That thing you worried about, that you played scenarios over, that kept... READ MORE

Every star

August 15, 2020

Did you notice that it’s not a perfect world and things don’t pan out the way they were supposed when you built the spreadsheet. The customer makes decisions more slowly than... READ MORE

A five minute job

August 13, 2020

Some jobs are five minute jobs. Like a read and respond email. Like putting the thing where it belongs. Like ordering that component you know you’ll need next week. It’s only... READ MORE

Stop hoping

August 11, 2020

At bottom, one core strategy is luck. It might be dressed up with spreadsheets and reason and an articulate argument, but hidden way deep down in there, the whole thing is... READ MORE