Inside | Office Workspace, USA | 2008

Announcing: releasing a mini-project, “Workspaces”, a brief look into the office cubicle environment.

I would love to expand on this project into a range of different workspaces… file under “projects to add to the list”.

Here | Office Workspace, USA | Aug 2008

Don, my first boss at my first job out of university, taught me to be accurate, to be accountable, to never pass blame, to ask questions, to never take the easy path out and to stand behind everything I deliver. He was a model for how to have a life outside work, with a great family, outside interests and a good life.

These things I learned (some fast, some slowly), but I could have learned a lot more if I had been smart enough to listen.

There were things I learned fast, and did very well, but other things I failed to grasp until I picked up more context over time.

At the time I thought I had “it” figured out.

Now I just think about how clueless I was.

It scares me to think about how wrong I was about things at other jobs, in other places, with other people, in seemingly other lives: because it forces me to wonder what I’m completely misjudging right now.

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That said, I’ve learned a few things. Check out my post How to Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure on Unstructured Thoughts.

Know how you’re getting a lot of “I’ll be out until Jan 2″ or so emails, auto-reminders, calendar entries, notes from people?

Then this will serve as my reminder that I will be here, throughout the holidays, getting everyone’s vacation reminders, enjoying my peace and productivity at work.