Coalition Basketball Narrow Loss
Once again we lost by 2 points! Argh, so close.
Once again we lost by 2 points! Argh, so close.
Video of me hang gliding:
And a video of the overall environment by the hang gliding instructor Fred:
If there is anything a team member can do to make me hate them, it’s being dishonest with me. People need to be open and honest and trustworthy in order for a business to function well and when people lie it creates huge problems. Dishonest people lose out in the end to karma and my hatred for their dishonesty will greatly hasten that process. I would rather have an employee who makes five big mistakes and talks to me about it then a person who makes one little mistake and hides it or lies about it.
As the owner of my company, it has become increasingly clear to me that I absolutely must put caring for my team members over any other business objectives and goals. I have to rely on my team and trust them to do what is right for Coalition and the only way I can possibly be able to do that is to absolutely do the same for them. I offer a lot of benefits for our team here and I have been increasingly trying to give them the benefit of the doubt in every situation and treat people as well as I can. I still have a lot of room for improvement, but I am working hard at it!
In one of the lowest scoring games of the year, Coalition’s basketball team won in double overtime. The first quarter ended at 2-2, there was no scoring in the first overtime and we scored the only basket in second overtime to win it. I think the game was 26-24 at the end.
Around 3 years ago, I wrote a blog post about World of Warcraft vs Real Life. I have been thinking about this topic of real life as an mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game for those of you non-nerds) more recently.
It’s been roughly 6 years now since I played serious computer games and got started with “Real Life”.
I think a lot of great lessons carried over from computer games to real life for me:
A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.
Here is a list of some of my friends professions:
Who are your friends and what are their professions?
I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.
A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself. An example of this would be:
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.
My brother is pledging a frat and apparently they kidnapped one of the brothers. Read on for his version (this is his email to the brothers of the house):
Friends, Comrades and Dear Brothers,