{"id":2334,"date":"2011-05-21T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2011-05-21T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T23:26:28","slug":"saturday-night-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/05\/21\/saturday-night-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – help"},"content":{"rendered":"

“it’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine…..”<\/p>\n

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Well.. the apocolypse has come and gone and we’re still hanging out..\u00a0\u00a0 and having quite a nice day, besides..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess today isn’t the day predicted in Revelations..<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Revalations, I had one today.. it’s about help… asking for help actually.. Like many folks I sometimes look at asking for help as a sign of weakness .. On the other hand, folks ask me for help all the time.. and I generally say yes without thinking… or at least without thinking enough.. that’s what always gets me in such binds with time.. Not only hat , i love helping people.. in fact.. it’s one of the things I enjoy doing most.. so why the asymmetry.. if I like helping.. why not ask for help more often.. THis whole train of thought came into my head today because\u00a0 I realized that over the past 2 weeks I’ve asked folks to help me out on a number of projects.. some I didn’t have time for.. some I didn’t know how to do..\u00a0\u00a0 Jerome’s helping me on my Echo project, Seth on an art electronics project, Tom filled in for me on a talk I didn’t think I could handle. Mike and Jim are helping me immensely at work. these days and today Scott offered to help me debug my wounded tesla coil ..<\/p>\n

I was thinking about all of htese. and kinda beating myself up for being such\u00a0 poor time manager.. and getting so far over myh head that I needed to ask folks to bail m out… but then…<\/p>\n

I as reviewing a talk I’m about to give.. it’s one of my standard ones.. called ‘ Lessons from the Colony’.. ita about the TV show adventure and the 10 lessons I really took away from that expereinse.. Lesson number 1 was ‘ask for help’<\/p>\n

If it’s good advise to give.. I guess it’s good advise to take..<\/p>\n

night all, night sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“it’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine…..”   Well.. the apocolypse has come and gone and we’re still hanging out..\u00a0\u00a0 and having quite a nice day, besides..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess today isn’t the day predicted in Revelations..   Speaking of Revalations, I had one today.. it’s about help… asking … Continue reading Saturday night – help<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-help"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}