Time Is My Enemy

A friend once told me many years ago that time was her enemy. Maybe more than ever before I now understand what she meant. Like many people, I have a never-ending to do list. There are things that must get done. And there are the things that would be nice to get done. I don’t [...]

Constant Construction

Several years ago a professor told me to be cautious of any institution that is not constantly under construction because a lack of construction meant a lack of improvement and potentially money. I have kept his statement in my mind since and believe it has relevance across the board. Let me explain.
Construction, as used in [...]

On Balance

It seems there are two different people in this world when it comes to work. There are those that love what they do and spend almost all day doing it. And there are those that treat work as merely a job and the rest of their time is what they live for. Which begs the [...]

The Attention Span of the Average Employee

I read an article earlier this week about how short the average employee’s attention span is at work – an estimated three minutes. I found the article to be true from my experience. Given that my computer is always in front of me, I can’t help to glance over every other minute to see if [...]

200

This post is my 200th blog post since I started writing Sound to Sound under two years ago. I reached 100 posts early last August, meaning that I write roughly ten posts a month. While the frequency of my writing has slowed down the past few months, I am pleased that I have hit the [...]

An Interest in Spatial Design

One of my interests in which I have absolutely no training and hardly any knowledge of is architecture. Architectural Record and Architectural Digest are always on my must read list of monthly magazines. Each magazine has a different focus, but both are worth browsing through each month to see the best in man-made design and [...]

Gmail vs. Hotmail

When Google’s Gmail debuted in 2004 I remember receiving several emails from friends and contacts informing me that their email address had changed to such-and-such at gmail dot com. I never changed my primary email address and continued using the Hotmail account I had grown accustomed to. Looking back, I should have made the change. [...]