9 results for my friend is the enemy of the enemy

  • My Friend is the Enemy of My Enemy

    According to three researchers, the easiest way to make friends is to dislike the same things. Excerpt: “We found a very robust tendency for people to mention more negative than positive attitudes about other people,” Bosson says, and the closer the friends were, the more negative attitudes toward others that they shared. Apparently, stronger feelings are associated with things we […]

  • Getting to Know My Environment

    October 15th is Blog Action Day, and the topic is The Environment. Now, I like a nice tree as much as the next fella, maybe even more. I once lived for 10 months in central Florida and what got to me wasn’t the incessantly warm weather or lack of decent Chinese food within 100 miles of me. To my surprise, […]

  • Decoupling My Assumptions

    I was reflecting about the amount of work I have coming in the days ahead, and had a minor brainstorm. The coming work is cool and I am jazzed about starting! However, I found myself going through a familiar train of thought: It’s going to be a lot of work, and the rewards will be delayed; I hope the work […]

  • Collecting Effort like Rainwater

    SUMMARY: Although I didn’t know it when I started, the addition of sub-blogs to collect my thoughts into topical areas has helped me define a content generation system that is helping me bootstrap my way into other challenges. The big insight is this: for me, capturing many small changes is more effective than trying to plot giant changes.

  • Seah Daiichi Power Plant Offline

    After a stormy couple of weeks, weathering unexpected projects in domains I don’t usually travel, I’m feeling back to normal. It feels like I’ve been on a kind of Anti-Vacation, where you get to experience new and exciting levels of pressure that you’ve read about in books but never had planned to visit yourself. In my case, it was a […]

  • Steven Pressfield’s “Do the Work”

    Years ago, my friend Ashish introduced me to Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, which opened my eyes to the common struggle that creative overthinkers like myself face every frickin’ day. I keep a spare copy on my bookshelf for times of creative crisis, when doubt is bombarding our position from all sides, like an extra magazine of ammunition. Because, […]