No fixed plans. Not intent upon arriving.
To Have Real Influence, Focus on a Great Outcome – Mark Goulston – Harvard Business Review:
When people paint a picture of a great outcome, they’re not trying "to persuade people to do something important." They’re trying to "positively influence them" to get them to a better place.
Great Innovators Think Laterally – Ian Gonsher and Deb Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review:
Often, when searching for a new way to understand a familiar idea, we look for its opposite. By doing this, we create a spectrum of possibilities between what it is and what it is not. This strategy is somewhat similar to what is often referred to as the Hegelian Dialectic, although Hegel himself probably never used this term, or its familiar formula: Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Thesis is a proposition about a prevalent paradigm; e.g. a horse and carriage; Antithesis is a counter proposition that opposes or negates the Thesis; e.g. the first generation of automobiles called "horseless carriages"; Synthesis emerges from the tension between the Thesis and the Antithesis, blending the opposing ideas without fully negating either of them completely; e.g. our modern understanding of the car.
Crucial Skills: Speaking Up about an Employee’s Body Odor:
Give the person the benefit of the doubt. We teach people who face a gap to ask themselves, "Why would a reasonable, rational, decent person act this way?" By asking that question, you avoid jumping to conclusions or making assumptions that can move you to make wrong diagnoses. It also prevents you from beginning your conversation in a way that says in essence, "I have held court in my head and found you guilty. Can we talk?" Such a beginning is not helpful and makes you part of the problem.
Don’t Read Email to Send Email – 99U:
Email can be a knowledge worker’s Siren. It beckons you forward with promises of exciting projects and gratifying announcements only to dash you against the rocks of busywork until your productive day has died a slow and agonizing death. Be like Odysseus and lash yourself to the mast.
America Doesn’t Need Google Fiber Everywhere — But We Do Need Its Buzz | Wired Opinion | Wired.com:
The difference between the standard Internet access that shapes our imagination and a fiber-to-the-home connection is as great as the difference between no electricity and an electrified life. But only if we see this difference, only if we understand what’s possible, can we change our expectations.
Marissa Mayer Tip On Preventing Employee Burn Out – Business Insider:
"What causes burnout, [Yahoo CEO Marissa] Mayer believes, is not working too hard," Rosin writes. "People, she believes, ‘can work arbitrarily hard for an arbitrary amount of time,’ but they will become resentful if work makes them miss things that are really important to them."
You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help. – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education:
All content in long-term memory is represented in two ways: "as a sense of familiarity on the one hand, and whether or not you truly understand it." People often mistake familiarity for understanding. They open the textbook after getting home from a lecture, and they recognize the material. They think: I get this. Then they take a test—and bomb it.
Adding minerals to reverse osmosis water for a strong stout
A product called Pickle Crisp is calcium chloride and is available were canning supplies are sold. It is intended for human consumption. The same is true for Pickling Lime. Pickling Lime is also known as Slaked Lime or calcium hydroxide. One pickling lime brand is Mrs. Wages.
In the case of using pickling lime, I find that you have to wait and add that mineral after you have doughed in. It is too strong and increases the water pH too high if added only to the water prior to mash in.
Adding minerals to reverse osmosis water for a strong stout
At atmospheric pressure, chalk can only provide up to 55 ppm of HCO3 to water and any attempt to over dose the water with chalk will just add to the sediment at the bottom of the mash tun.