Bloggin' Umholtz

Random thoughts for the day

I would like to meet the person who invented round shoelaces. They keep coming undone. Flat ones work much better.

I would like to meet the person who invented double knotting shoelaces to keep them from coming undone.

Complaining is a waste of energy. There are really only two things people complain about, those they can change and those they can't. In the case of the former, if you can change something then why are you complaining? Just change it. In the case of the latter, if you can't change it, why waste your energy complaining about it. Move on to something you can change.

I'm getting ready to interview candidates for my old position and I'm worried. They say you should always hire people that are smarter than you are. And I'm afraid, in my case, that's going to be very difficult to do.