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What I Should Have Said – Now Available
Posted by Tim in on March 7, 2010
Shoulda Been a Designer…
Posted by Tim in on March 3, 2010
Not because I want to live life on the drawing board but because I could sneeze out garbage like this and have people sit up and pay attention. Please notice…
The Chron has been doing articles like this on a semi-regular basis – forcing us to come to grips with the ether-world that design architects want us all to live in. I guess houseboats weren’t good enough before and now they have to be a combination open living room/bathysphere. The old Bay Bridge structure will also find new life as a work/live space for everybody who wants to ignore why we’re building a new Bay Bridge in the first place (hint 30’s bridge-building didn’t account for seismic activity).
Weekend Notes
Posted by Tim in on March 1, 2010
Sick kids have a way of throwing the rest of your weekend off – this is why I always have a Plan B chambered. We had our Saturday plans all mapped out when Little Man came down with a fever and needed to go home. I got started on the Honey-Do list and installed our new car stereo – here Little Man is acting as management while I provide the labor…
Little Man is fascinated by the process of crimping two wiring harnesses.
And then disaster struck. While attending a going-away party, he fell and hit his head on a garden stone, necessitating his first trip to the doctor for stitches. Times have changed since I was a kid – now they wrap them up papoose-style in this big harness that prevents them from thrashing around and it must have been scary to be trussed up like that. I held his foot and kept reassuring him that chicks do, in fact, dig scars. He whimpered a little when the Lidocaine went in but other than that he handled it like a champ. He even fell asleep while they were stitching him up – how metal is that?
That’s not dried blood on his face, that’s chocolate ice cream for a brave patient.
I know I’ve been saying that I want to do the 90-day alcohol fast but I needed a stiff drink after that.
Nobody’s Perfect
Posted by Tim in on February 17, 2010
The beauty of social networking is the transparency we’re now beginning to see in each other’s lives. The more people you meet, the more obvious it becomes that we’re all just people and that we’re all just trying to make it through the day the best way that we know how. When I was younger, our family spent a lot of time comparing ourselves to other people and it was a pointless exercise. Not only did we waste time we could have spent improving ourselves, we robbed ourselves of the opportunity to enjoy what life becomes when you aren’t looking for ways to resent other people.
But thanks to Facebook and the Internet – we can peer into other people’s lives and see what they’re doing on a day to day basis. Everyone is sharing every mundane detail of their lives – and don’t get me wrong, I like mundane detail. But what do we learn? The short answer is: That nobody has it perfect. For example:
What I Should Have Said – Production Photos
Posted by Tim in on February 16, 2010
Our production photos are courtesy Darla Montoya
In Charge But Not In Control
Posted by Tim in on February 12, 2010
So – let’s talk management:
The word scares most people away but I want to speak to the ones who haven’t rolled their eyes and closed the browser window already. Is that you? Good.
Now that I am a manager (Insert your air quotes, here) I can see a lot of ways that good management translates to other parts of life. At the same time, the behavior of people has some common themes and I wanted to talk about that, too. Essentially, it boils down to this and I’ll say it now so you can either read it and move on or dig deeper if you feel like it:
Being a leader or a manager is about being in charge, not necessarily in control.
Being a leader or a manager is about steering multiple ships.
I go into what I’m talking about with more detail after the jump:
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Posted by Tim in on February 11, 2010
This is the power of film – I watched this and almost immediately ran home to hold Little Man.
…just beautiful.
Couldn’t Resist…
Posted by Tim in on February 10, 2010
Little Man is in his first commercial – check it out beginning at 01:55.