The Week Begins
It is only Tuesday AM and it already feels like a long week. Just kidding. The truth is travel days wear me out. It was uneventful for the most part. Only hiccup was in Atlanta. We boarded the very large 767, got all ready to go, but something was wrong with a fuel gauge. So we got off the plane, Delta pulled another one out of the garage, we boarded it and left only a couple of hours late. It’s hard to complain about that. They did a good job.
I don’t feel I can say that often about an airline. It is a shame what has happened to air travel in the states.
Biz Stone of twitter fame (one of the cofounders) did the keynote and it was awesome! I don’t know how well it was received by the more stuffy CIO/Doctor types, but for us nerds in the audience, it was great!
He had a lot of good things to say.
One of the key messages he shared was the value of people and ideas. A couple of his ‘aphorisms’ really resonated with us. Particularly that it’s important to keep the customers in mind, coworkers have good intentions and often they have good ideas, and that fun is a very important part of success.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m very fortunate to have a job I genuinely enjoy and have fun doing.
Off to the vendor floor this afternoon. That’s really the big payoff for HIMSS. I come for the keynotes and the vendor floor. Frankly, we’re ahead of the game at Nemours and often doing things with technology that HIMSS won’t be talking about for a couple more years.
Enjoy!
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No. Me neither.
It’s like the perfect front lawn. You spend hours on it. You know everyone driving by are going to see your well manacured lawn and say, “Damn! That guy takes care of his lawn!”
A few hours later, you look out the front window, just to admire your work and NOOOOO! There’s one weed standing straight and tall right in the middle of the yard.
Now everyone driving by, that’s all they are going to see. That damn weed. Their not going to see the well edged driveway or the trimmed hedges.
All you can do is march out there, and yank the thing out by the roots!
That’s better. Looks like a well groomed lawn again.
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I once read a study by a sociologist, talking about the challenges certain folks have communicating effectively and how this limitation creates a great deal of conflict. The study was about gang life, and how the inability to effectively communicate leaves these individuals only violence to vent their frustrations.
It is an interesting theory, and I’m just glossing over the high points, so don’t read to much into it, but I see some parallels here. The fear mongering that religious leaders and the talk radio preachers pander in, creates the same kind of frustration, or may be a result of the same types of frustration as the gang member who can’t adequately vent his anger without resorting to violence.
Yes, I know there are logical fallacies in the above thoughts, but these are complicated issues. The whole notion of magical thinking prevalent in most religions make any such discussion complicated.
With luck, we will eventually learn as people that differences are not necessarily bad.
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I don’t get it. I’m tempted to call the good people at Abbey/Graham Appliance services and ask what they mean by the bumper sticker. I see them occasionally, and I’ve never really understood the meaning.
Are they trying to say that America is currently in possession of non-americans?
I live here, and probably do not subscribe to the same belief system they do, does that mean they are trying to take America away from me?
It’s a mystery!
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