Trying to stay sane Had the sky not fallen around us a few months ago and changed, well, everything, I'd be in Slovakia now, something like 3,000 km into my bike trip. I don't think so often about where I'd be anymore; I quickly accepted the fate of my plan, and dreaming about "where I'd be if..." is like psychological cocaine - feels great in
It begins with procrastination and a bad night of sleep Because obviously that's how you want to start your first ever bike tour. But I've led a charmed life and have never really suffered the consequences of poor planning, and I'm a Steele, so obviously I chose a video-beer with a friend instead of actually looking at a packing list and organizing myself. That could
Ugh. How do I review this book? I was trying to find an analogy to capture my disappointment, but I couldn't find a good one. So here's the best I can do: imagine you love chocolate, and your restaurant menu says they have a glorious chocolate cake sandwich thing. Then imagine the exact opposite of chocolate. Shit, let's say. You're delivered a shit sandwich. And that's
Status update - May 1 is no longer a go So, this is a post I've been putting off for a while. I've known/suspected for a month or two that my bike trip - my light at the end of the tunnel, my grand adventure, my opportunity to turn my brain off and catch my mental breath - would need to be postponed or even
Well well. It's 8pm on a Saturday night, and rather than heading out to meet up with friends for dinner or drinks, I'm doing my civic duty and isolating myself. With freshly baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and my second glass of wine. Not terrible, I admit. Anyway, the point here isn't to complain about Covid-19 (side note: more than anything, I hope simply for
Following McKinsey's very enjoyable and enlightening "Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick", I had a bit of an appetite for more strategy content, so I dug into a BCG book entitled "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" I was given at a conference a while back. The presentation given at the conference was both entertaining and illuminating, so I thought the book would be a good read.
With my vast experience of having been involved in the strategy process of exactly ONE company, perhaps I'm not the best judge of this book. But since when did credibility stop someone from posting his opinions on the internet, eh? So here we go. I guess the highest praise I can give a book is that is has changed my perspective, in what I have
Gonna keep this one short, because it's essentially the next book (following Sword of Destiny, read my review here) in the Witcher series. Most of what I said in that review remains true for this book: it's easy, the story is engrossing, and it's pretty light on sex and gore. The translation has improved, or at least the instances of strange word choice are dramatically
If you want to skip the narrative and go straight to the campaign, please head here: https://join.worldbicyclerelief.org/Jesse-Steele/yourownidea If you're in for the narrative, read on! Fundraising The truth is, I hate fundraising. I hate asking people for money. I have a hard time promoting my own professional accomplishments, which costs the listener nothing but her time, so needless to say promoting a cause which costs
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