Archive for May, 2008

May 26

Project Management

In the process of getting from A to B, no matter how brilliant, insightful, or experienced you are:

  • Netted out across all tasks, everything takes at least twice as long as anyone thought it would.
  • You didn’t think of half the things you’re actually going to need to get done to get to the finish line.
  • Whether you succeed or fail will depend in large part on how much breathing room you are able to give yourself to deal with this along the way, and your judgment how to best use that time as new situations evolve.
May 05

Too much travelling

 I do have a couple things that I’ve been wanting to post. The last month or so has been a lot of back-to-back-to-back travel. About halfway done. I’ll try to get them out here while on the road.

In the meanwhile, a sign that I may have spent some part of the last few years losing touch with reality:

We have a pretty nice looking Dodge-somethingorother rental car up here.  Nothing extravagant, just enough to get from point A to B a few times this week.

Revelation while parking it earlier:  I didn’t even know they made cars without power locks anymore.