by Jim Chaput | Jul 15, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Here I am, 200 blog posts published. Seth said the first 1,000 would be the hardest. Some days do feel hard, others not so much. It’s going to be a while before I know whether it really gets easier after 1,000. At the start of this project, I did not look this...
by Jim Chaput | Jul 14, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Sometimes we focus too much on the tools we have. We imagine that better tools will improve us instantly. In various hobbies, this is known as gear acquisition syndrome. I have suffered it myself a few times. A common thing people say when they see a great photo, “You...
by Jim Chaput | Jul 13, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Back when I worked in Boston, a woman I worked with mentioned that she thought it was strange how another woman walked. The woman walked duck-footed, accentuated by her stature and high heels. My coworker went on to say that she was wrong to judge, maybe the woman had...
by Jim Chaput | Jul 12, 2019 | Jim's Blog
One of the questions I get is how comments on blog posts work. When you comment on the blog, anyone can see it. I receive every comment via email and read all of them. At one point, I replied to every comment. Then I realized people probably do not see my responses,...
by Jim Chaput | Jul 11, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Trish and I were talking about analogies and I mentioned that they are all flawed. She challenged me as to whether that was really true. I asked her to give me an analogy that was perfect. Amusingly, she responded that she could not think of any analogies on the spot....
by Jim Chaput | Jul 10, 2019 | Jim's Blog
Time is like money. You need decide whether to spend it now or invest for the future. One difference is that you can’t save it for later. Although we all have the same amount of time each day, we don’t know how many days we have. If you spend it all and don’t...
