General Commentary The Power of Commitment At the turn of a new year, many people like to take time to reflect on the past and plan for the future. That arbitrary delineation of time gets people thinking about starting fresh; starting off the new year in a way as to make it better than the last.
General Commentary So I Took a Sabbatical: What I Learned/Should You Do It? This is part 4 in a series of my sabbatical experience. This post is meant to serve as the TL;DR for my sabbatical experience (links to the other posts are listed below) so that you can decide if taking a sabbatical is something you may want to do in
General Commentary So I Took a Sabbatical: What Did I Do with the Time Off? This is part 3 in a series of my sabbatical experience. The very first thing I did? Literally? Participate in my first mud run. To be fair, that was a challenge I had accepted long before I even thought about taking a sabbatical, so it was a mere coincidence that
General Commentary So I Took a Sabbatical: Reflecting on the Past This is part 2 in a series of my sabbatical experience. The first step was straightforward: I put in my two three and half weeks, transitioned my activities, and left. It was that easy. The hard part, however, was finding and defining the "work" that I had in
General Commentary So, I Took a Sabbatical: Why I Took One This is part 1 in a series of my sabbatical experience. I quit my job. I walked into my boss's office, thanked him, and let him know I'd be leaving the company. Roughly 3 weeks later there was a Monday without a commute, fluorescent lights, or
General Commentary So I Took a Sabbatical (Series) In college, I remember having to change one of my courses because the professor had chosen to take a sabbatical. At the time, I just wanted to register for the class so that I could graduate, start my career, and begin to meaningfully contribute to society by paying taxes and
General Commentary We've Got a Workaround for That Whenever I hear the term workaround, the cynic inside of me raises an eyebrow and sternly asks Come again? (And when I say workaround, I mean a one or more steps that are used to achieve a result because the original intended usage of a system or application is either
General Commentary Here's to Something In that odd, misplaced moment in time between digesting an obscene amount of food at a family cookout on Memorial Day weekend and hearing the same story about that time your brother threw a handful of rocks that sent your other, skateboarding brother hurtling through the air -- always faster,
