Work/Life Balance Management

ok, here's my philosophy of work/management/etc. in a nutshell. Note that this applies now and is subject to change at any time.

Work is part of life and life is part of work. You cannot separate the two. At any given point you are asking an individual to choose between priorities.

When you have a newborn at home, you have little room to prioritize work based on another's ego.

When you are engaged in a work project that can impact the world in a meaningful way you have little room to prioritize a distant relative's concern over making the same dish for a potluck.

If you succeed enough in selling priorities (by treating people as adults, spirit rallies, friendliness, money, profit sharing, flexibility, stability, paint color, cafeterias, t-shirt of the month competitions, whatever the fuck works), then the people that you spent so much time and money to find will surprise you because they care.

Or you could just focus on making sure that your HR policies won't get you sued and that people are fearful enough of losing their jobs to show up when they're required to be there.

Blog refresh

Ok, I'm going to post to my blog, which I really haven't done much. It helps that very few people (if any) actually subscribe to it.

This, in case you don't know, is my personal blog, rather than my professional blog. As such you should  as soon as possible become acquainted with the idea that I'm more focused on conveying my raw personal insights (possibly crap) rather than fully formed academic ideas.

Others before me had letters that they sent, which I must assume they presumed to be private, while recognizing that they could eventually become public. I would like to make this blog along those lines. I don't want to censor myself,  but at the same time it would be foolish to treat this as something that no-one will ever see. That is for my private journal (which may or may not exist in an undisclosed location).

So to you dear (and possibly non-existent) reader, I re-dedicate this blog.

Experiment

I'm thinking of getting this going again (instead of posting randomly long posts on Facebook). Is anyone out there?