I was hanging out with my good buddy John today after sitting together in an interesting meeting. I had gotten the new hires at work together for the second time to brainstorm about making another fun science/math/engineering promotion video. The meeting had been quite fun. Lots of good ideas, many variations, but in the end, no resolution. By the end of the meeting we had lashed at least three ideas together into a very fun … Albeit frankensteinish .. Mix of things that upon thinking back, may well have taken us years to accomplish as we walked out of the building, John turned to me and pointed out there is always a bit of ‘scope creep’ in everything that i take on. Simple things become complex, complex things become impossible its the way i see the world, i explained, i see an ever expanding array of possibilities spiraling out of any situation… Even when the situation requires a single actionable idea. There are just so many possibly attractive ways to do anything, why would anyone prefer to narrow it down just to one ?
This has always been a challenge to me… But now even more. As I settle in to my new role at work…. I am being bombarded with new possibilities. Some days i come home with my brain overflowing with new cool stuff… I then send hours reading what i missed while at work… In my normal mode, this would be non convergent… I would attempt to charge out after every idea… That just would not work isn this new role . What i
M trying to do now is to go around with a master list of 4 major areas that I’m trying to accomplish and use that as a filter to prevent me from spinning out if control. So far, it seems to be working,,, when something new presents itself,,, i refer to the list… If its not on the list… I’m trying to say ‘no thanks’… I started that mid day today.. And so far, i think its working.. Of course, no one has tried to ask me to do anything this afternoon,,, .. But hey.. Its a start !

Nite all, nite sam
-me
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