We can measure how efficiently every living thing moves. What we mean by efficiency is the amount of energy it takes to move a set distance. For instance, how much energy does it take your pet cat to walk one kilometer? Or your dog? Turns out that flying creatures use the least energy per distance. Your pets must bow to the queen of efficient locomotion: The Condor.
We’ve had tons of Loadshedding recently. Our power even went out twice on one day this weekend. But I’ve noticed something is interesting. Not all power cuts are created equal. Are some of them 5 hours and some of them 1 hour only? No – these days they are all 2.5 hours. But they don’t feel the same.
I’ve recently started feeling very odd during the workday. It's not that I haven’t enjoyed my work. And it's not that I’ve been feeling sick or anything. Just not quite on top of my game. I’ve allowed my inbox to get more out of control than usual. I normally keep my camera on during smaller meetings. But that has felt like an effort lately. More and more I’ve kept my camera off. It’s almost like something in me wants to hide from the world.
This is the third and final article in my three-part series aimed at giving you practical advice on how to ace your next interview. In part one we looked at interview preparation and in part two we covered how you should show up. This part focuses on three keys that turn the interview into a conversation.
This is the second article in a three-part series. Each article provides practical advice on how to ace your next interview. Part one looked at how almost everyone gets nervous in interviews. We identified four things we should do before an interview...
One of the reasons people are nervous for interviews is because they don’t know what questions they are going to be asked. And if you don’t know what you are going to be asked, then you can’t know in advance whether you’re going to be able to give good answers. And if you can’t be sure of that, well, then you enter the interview unsure of yourself.
This week I noticed something interesting when I looked at the traffic logs for my personal website. There was one article I wrote a year ago that was getting a lot of visits. In fact, I was surprised to see that last month alone it was read by more than 100 people.
Are you conservative or progressive? This is a question I refuse to answer unless you give me the context because the answer should not always be the same. And if the answer should not always be the same, then surely pigeon-holing people into ideological boxes can be both counterproductive and dangerous.
On Saturday afternoon I almost died. Instead I walked away physically unscathed from the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in. How does one almost die but have no injuries to show for it? I’ll tell you how, by being very lucky.
The pandemic – and our subsequent zig-zagging between on campus and online school – has made education a big part of our family conversations recently. For many years I’ve been worried that old school education (pun intended as always) just cannot be the final, optimal system we invent as a human species. It has too many problems that should not be problems.
Imagine your teenage son is working underneath his car. Now imagine the car falls off the jacks that were holding it up. What would you do in a situation like that? Would you stay calm and call 911? Not very likely. Patience usually goes out the window at that point. And it’s all thanks to the hypothalamus region of our brains and our adrenal glands.
Innovation without execution is not vision. Its hallucination. “An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present”. Execution is what takes things from the world of ideas into the realm of reality.
