- The perfect job done well
- Work you like, people you like, anytime, anywhere = entrepreneur, nomad, or happy employee? Why choose?
- There is a crisis, and some things will change
- What will disappear:
- traditional offices
- Traditional work schedules
- Pay for location and cost of living
- What will start:
- Cultural attachment that forms a company and make sit hold together
- Move towards remote working and cross-state commutes
- Market pressures for agility will
- Pain-points
- Current employees will need to go with the blow – adapt or die
- Companies have to learn how to breathe nitrogen to survive
- New opportunities will show up in the market – who will be there to catch them
- What will disappear:
- Strengthening of fringe trends
- 2000 saw the normalization of outsourcing during recovery from the burst
- Outsourcing has always suffered from the cultural gap
- The coming opportunity
- Unique gap by standing on both sides of the fence
- Outsourcing done better as remote working
Offloading the Subconscious
Reading about a major part of the brain being sub-conscious
Unfinished business in constantly working the brain
Develop mind like water
Single trusted system with regular checkpoints
My secret: I do not know how many balls I juggle, and it does not matter
Making it look easy
The basics
Stress reduction while achieving high productivity
Single-system:
- Life’s multiple domains that each have priorities
- Work/home/hobby
- What is the desired level of system compartmentalization (security, workflow, shared)
- Using multiple systems feels like two lives
- Layered calendars facilitate a unified view
- Two task-lists and deliverables present daily friction
- Double-listing of tasks at weekly review (extra work vs friction)
Practical system:
- Weekly planning, and daily stock-taking
- Weekly calendar planning and clean borders
- Collaborating with others
- Set clear rules and stick to them to provide a reliable and trusted structure
- Take care of the basic role to qualify to say “no”
- Make exceptions only after making it clear how it is disrupting the system
Intended Results:
- Mind like water status of just in time action
- Stress reduction while achieving high productivity
- Live in the “important + non-urgent” quadrant
- Exercise assertiveness and get rid of the self-expending and compromised helpful nice-guy syndrome
- Be intentional about new projects and how they fit in the grand plan
An algorithm for happiness
- Life is a mix of successes and problems – hopefully linked
- Happiness with no root is delirium and has no purpose
- Windfall money that is not worked for is not as sweet as that which comes from toil
- Happiness is not a result, but a journey and the linking of the two can define mundane or otherwise (objectively/conventionally unhappy) situations as happy (example: enjoying and old car)
- Contentment is a starting point pr a state of being that can be context or precede the more ephemeral result of happiness (causal)
What Next?
- Document and triage my problems so that I can isolate and live with context (things I cannot change)
- Create a clear path from what is (problems) and the desired (solutions) so that there is constant movement from problems I can solve, so linked solutions
- Internal feeling of “can do”, – let us examine how that can breed contentment and inner peace

Schedules: Too little or too much
This is an examination of conscience (of sorts). I have rejected the idea that people can be busy (much as it is a badge of honor to claim as much), but more of stressed/surprised/over-scheduled/etc. I question if there is a linear limit to an individual’s output and if there are ways that this can be increased. I touch on strategies that can virtually make this limitless and even reduce the human toll.

¡Llegué en La Habana!
One crazy day in August/September 2019, I got home and searched Google for flights to Cuba. I had heard many a peer talk about a past trip to Cuba and how it was a unique experience. I decided to book a trip…, say 1 month away. If I ‘came to my senses’ and thought differently, I could very well forgo the cost (initially about $250) and stay in the safety of my routine; maybe just go to a salsa-dancing in my choice of local venue with a Spanish name.
… fast track and I was at the balcony of La casa blanca in a conversation using my then only 30 words of Spanish!

Revisiting my website hosting architecture
In this recording is a review of my current web hosting architecture as I see it after several months of active use. Specifically, I cover the shortcomings of the current setup, ways around each one and advantages of each alternative. This post mainly sets the stage for future updates or posts…
- What are the core needs?
- Review of my current setup and available alternatives
- Discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each option
- Next steps


Contrasting social Internet from social media
Membership in any one of the social media platforms has its benefits; that are seldom longterm. By definition, these platforms come and go. In the next 17 minutes of audio, I will cover the following points as I set context for my decision to leave social media (not that I was that invested). I am instead focusing on establishing and maintaining a robust internet presence.
NB: The audio-levels are much higher/better in this post.
- Briefly explain the Internet of past and the built-in autonomy of publishing
- Contrast with the walled-garden idea that characterizes: BBS, AOL, FB, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc using the controlled model
- Tying your fate to that of the walled-garden that you live in VS
- Leaving an alias that enables others to find you regardless of what garden or personal island you move to
- Walled safety AND house-rules that stifle unique authenticity (sandboxes have rules/censorship)