As part of the course I'm taking, we watched 12 Angry Men. I don't watch many movies in general, and I've barely seen any black-and-white ones so it was weird. The whole movie was set in one room, and they showed the heat by having the men sweat copiously (like, wet faces, one guys shirt ...
Over the weekend, I finished reading Marcus Buckingham's Stand Out (Amazon). Similar to StrengthsFinder (Amazon) - which I blogged about recently), only instead of highlighting what your strengths are, it focuses on how others see you. I found it pretty interesting, and if you're also interested in how your team perceives you, it's probably worth taking. StrengthsFinder ...
I'm taking a leadership course at work at the moment, and this week we spent time discussing The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Amazon). I'd recently read Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Amazon) so it was interesting to hear what other people thought of the concepts. There's a pyramid of things - Inattention to Results, Avoidance ...
About 3 weeks ago, I sat in San Francisco airport and waited, as the delay on my flight crept up and up. Some time around 5pm, when I'd been there since 10am, I felt like, I could cry right then. Just start sobbing. In public. The lounge had closed, and I was sitting by the ...
I'm taking a leadership course at work just now, and one of the exercises was to take the StrengthsFinder (Amazon) test. At first I took the test and thought it was a bit rubbish. I didn't really have strong preferences for a lot of things (much of which came from me being very ambivert) and so my ...
I read an article today about why there aren't enough women in tech. It says, women doubt themselves. This hurts their chances of ending up in Science or Engineering. They think they can't do it. It bored me. I am so tired of reading this. We know it. I must read an article a month - ...
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Back in high school, my friends and I went through a phase of being into The Sims. I remember one conversation, when my friend said her sim-child had been taken off to military school. I hadn't known that could happen. She, perceptively, said that she bet my sim-children are all straight-A students. They were. And I ...
UPDATE: I expressed myself very badly in this post. As a result, I hurt and offended some good people, and some of them were quick to let me know. I’m sorry. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the response, but as soon as I saw the comments I knew I’d made a mistake. I appreciate ...
I do subscribe to the theory that will-power is a depletable resource. It's why I hired a trainer in grad school - I felt like my willpower was used up by research and grad school tedium, and whilst I would do exercise that I enjoyed, I would not get round to doing the weight training that I ...
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. The highs have been... high. The lows have been... low. Some of the highs and lows have come with associated "I don't suck as much as I thought!" and "argh I'm an utter failure" emotional turmoil. Some have just been happy. Some have just been really, really ...
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