Just the thoughts and musings of a middle-aged, aspiring Buddhist, late-diagnosed autistic female genius. You will probably not agree with me, but at least I will make you THINK. The only comments I take are high praise or gently constructive criticism. All others will be duly ignored.
This week has been a real doozy. At work, our "weeks" generally run from Wednesday through Tuesday for our weekly production cycle so I'm now coming to the end of the craziest week of my 17+ years. We had been presented with data feed inputs to enter that were all riddled with errors and in …
Continue reading A Blessing Disguised as a Frustrating Imposition
Well, it has been a full year since I wrote about what I was thankful for and, having just reread my post from 2020, I can say I should definitely avoid making predictions for the future. Many of the items I noted are still valid this year, but a lot has changed too. As far …
America is truly a land of addictions. You need look no further than the latest statistics about the opioid epidemic to see. One hundred-thousand people died in the last year from opioid overdose, mostly from illegal fentanyl, a synthetic version of heroin. This is the same drug that took the lives of Prince, Tom Petty, …
Continue reading Capitalism, in its Current Form, is an Addiction
Everyone else is writing on this topic, so why not me too? What do people want to work for? Based on our pre-Covid economic model, it would seem people worked out of necessity, for their survival, to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables. It was barely working. Many people do …
Being that this is the week after our semi-annual, fuck-with-my-sleep-for-a-week thing we call the daylight saving time "Fall back," I thought I would write about TIME today. I have always had an uneasy relationship with time. It may or may not have started when, as a young child, I observed the arbitrariness of certain aspects …
From all outside observation, most people would say I was very good at school. I got good grades and generally followed the rules. I have years of report cards and transcripts that show how capable I was, how much I learned. My final high school GPA was about 3.6 on a 4.0 scale. The problem …
Continue reading What is the Real Difference Between Competence and the Appearance of Competence?
Life's too short not to make every attempt to make amends with people with whom you've had a falling out. From those you find challenging (or vice versa), the most important lessons come. Life's too short to spend any more than 40 hours per week working. You also have other important things to do with …
America is an "I" country. I did this, I'm good at that. Me, me, ME! Everyone wants to talk about what they know, and oneself is the limit to what one can ever know, really. And how many of us REALLY know ourselves? Very few, I would say. So how helpful is this self-focus, anyway? …
Last week while I was out of town on vacation, visiting my brother and his partner, I received a private message on LinkedIn from someone I had recently connected with. She was asking for my permission to quote something I wrote in THIS BLOG for an article she was writing. I am still amazed thinking …
In America, we have a philosophy that things must be ranked, optimized, put in order and our primary way of creating that order is through competition. We judge those who "win" as morally superior to those who "lose" in competition. If you lost a competition, you are encouraged to pick yourself up, dust yourself off …
Continue reading Competition Does Not Always Yield the Best Results
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