Chris Dee
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Latest in Chris Dees Blog
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I know you’re busy, but…
If there are five words in the English language that add up to justifiable homicide, those are the ones. I know you're busy, but… At this point, it's not the ones bringing me additional work who I plan to kill, it's the ones giving me a list of books to pick out which ones I want from the library, and putting a bookmark into the one they thought I'd like to read. Yes, I am busy. Despite that, I am not putting CT on hiatus, I am not blowing off the cat who just interrupted this blog writing with a none-too-subtle plea for attention, I did answer emails this morning, I did manage to go to the grocery store, and god willing, I will get a manicure some time this week. That's only possible if I get to make the judgment calls about what goes where in the priority matrix. So, CT fans. there is a lot going on right now behind the scenes. Armchair Detective may begin this week, or it might be next week. It will be starting soon. There are some other goodies in the... -
Bitter
There is a great piece of wisdom from Alton Brown. On the Good Eats episode "True Brew", Alton explains that many say (and think!) they don't like strong coffee when in reality what they don't like is bitter coffee. "Now logically to take care of this they decide to brew with fewer grounds. The problem is that makes the bitterness even worse." Moral: it's really important to know what the problem actually IS before you try to fix it. Throughout history, some very important people have failed to do that about very important things, with catastrophically bad results. You see, if you don't know that it's the fleas on rats that are spreading the bubonic plague, then in your medieval religious fervor you might blame the devil and start killing cats that are the only real control on the rat population. In which case, congratulations! You just mad a bad situation 1000X worse. If you only have a 1929 understanding of the economy and are worried the... -
Garbage In, Garbage Out
2 of my ex-clients are their own worst enemies. In one case, it might be deliberate. One of those subconscious self-destructive tendencies that there is no cure for but therapy. If someone is out to sabotage themselves, they'll succeed and there's nothing anybody can do. All you're going to get if you support, forgive, and overlook the behavior is to wind up on the list of things they have to drive away or destroy to achieve the alone-and-miserable status they think they deserve.
The one ex-c, as I said, is a question mark on that score. The other definitely is not, and that's good news/bad news territory, because GOOD-it can be fixed. BAD-if it isn't, then he too winds up in the alone-miserable-failure heap when he doesn't need to be.
The failing both ex-cs have is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. They tend to hire crappy people who come cheap - and there is a very good reason for that. It's like...
