For various reasons I’ve been thinking a lot about quality work recently, and likewise about art. Some of this is tied up in things going on at work, but most of it is probably me trying to decide who it is that I want to be as I move into this next phase. It comes […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
How many hours will I work?
“How many hours a day will you work as a writer?” a friend of mine at work asked. This is relevant because I’m spending a lot of effort studying work hours and organizational effectiveness. And it’s relevant because I’ve taken a lot of this work to leadership for overall discussion and awareness. It’s relevant because […]
Read More ...Dear Chapter Five
Dear Chapter Five, I think it’s time we had that talk. You know, the one where we come together and agree to figure out how to get along. You know what I mean. The one where we make certain commitments. For my part, I agree that I will continue to appear before the monitor every […]
Read More ...Math, Work Hours, Failure, and Engagement
Yesterday, Lisa and several other Facebook friends of mine linked to this very interesting article, the title of which suggests that it’s about math, and the content of which gets clouded by its use of math as its front-and-center example. I read it yesterday, and said that I had to think about it more before […]
Read More ...Everything was all so strangely clear
I spent a large chunk of my work day yesterday listening to a continuous stream of Lou Reed that was playing through my inTune phone app. I had only a few meetings, so I probably listened to five hours of it. Reed playing Reed, and others covering Reed. Yes, it was a little repetitive at […]
Read More ...Progress
Who says you can’t judge an author by their cover? # So I’m making what I again hope is a last pass through Lord of the Freeborn (key word, there, being “again”). What I’m seeing makes me optimistic. The first thirty pages ran by in a breeze, and we’re just now getting to the part […]
Read More ...Steps: Revisited
Some of you may remember all those many months ago, that among my New Year’s Resolutions was to average 20,000 steps a day. It’s been awhile since I reported out, so here goes. Average Steps/Day: (all data, courtesy of my company’s Health Miles program counter) January – 22,515 February – 25,390 March – 22,933 April […]
Read More ...Long and Strange Couple Weeks
It’s been a long and strange couple of weeks here. Lisa is still progressing with her foot, and work has been quite a hog. Time is drawing down there though, and I’m finding that in an odd twist of fact, it’s actually quite easy to say “I’ll have lots of time to write in a […]
Read More ...Closer to the Endgame
Okay, I admit it, I’m sore. This weekend marked Lisa’s first trips back to the health club. We’re getting closer to the endgame with Lisa and her surgery, and this weekend represented her first trips back to the health club. We went both Saturday and Sunday–the first day she mostly hung out on the elliptical, […]
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