I’m in route back to VT after a fun/short/interesting visit to Notre
Dame. It was very good catching up with my old friends there. TOday I
did my best to attend the meeting in notre dame while also attending to
work. I did a fair ob.. but it’s hard to be in two places at once..
You know, I’m getting increasingly convinced that our work culture is
doing the wrong thing in focusing so much on remote collaboration..It
certainly has it’s place on large projects.. but the level of
interaction is so much less interesting and less fulfilling. I think
we need to divide our work such more tasks are geared around locally
autonomous face to face teams that would get together every so often to
collaborate remotely.. Call me a Luddite.. but I miss seeing people
when I tlak to them.. Nearly 0% of my work involves seeing people thse
days.. and seeing peopl eis one of the things I most love in life.. go
figure..
On a different note. I noticed this morning that today was
my 28th service anniversary at IBM.. 28 years ago I walked into building
973 wearing a light blue sweater with multiple holes in it.. I remember
that because I’d never lived anywhere that you might need a sweater in
august. My most memorable thing about that day was that I got to set
off a fire extinguisher !… 28 years.. wow.. what A ride it’s been…
Speaking
of ride.. the plane is abotu to begin loading.. I better sign off
here.. It’s time to start getting nervous and excited about the 3rd
installemnt of The Colony tomorrow.. Here’s a short prelude of
tomorrow nights show
All for now.. Nite folks.. Night Sam !
-me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLhq-WzMag
