Came back from a flight from New Delhi , Monday morning, that left New Delhi just after midnight and 16 hours later arriving in New York around 5:30 am. And so far today, Thursday morning, I feel kind of fine, not really jet lagged, in the sense of wanting to wake or sleep at odd hours. The specific strategy I did in attempting to align meal time and sleep time with the destination time zone was to fast the day of the flight until lunch time arrival at my destination....
Recently I went on a trip to India where so much was going on I stopped using my meal tracking. And on this trip the other thing that happened was that half the time, I was in a plane, waiting for a plane, or on a bus –or on the back of a Maruti Suzuki offroad Jimny– or otherwise sedentary. And yet, after the brief 10 day trip, I carved off an inch and a half off my waist and dropped over 6 pounds on the scale....
You don’t know what you don’t know. Filled in some gaps today. I don’t know if these particular gaps were used by pests found intruding into the home, but per my reading, these are typical likely entry ways, so going to attempt to rule these out for later.
I was recently reading this Forbes article1 on a colleague’s recommendation, asking the question, “Why So Many Leaders Say They Want Innovation But Reward Compliance”. The author’s answer is essentially that it is easy to talk about innovation, but because it is less predictable, then safe bets are rewarded by default and a vicious cycle ensues. Innovation is an optical illusion and idea seeds do not get planted. I think there is another answer worth exploring....
I was going through this interesting discussion1 about PI Planning recently, because I’m in the middle of writing2 about the first PI Planning I participated in as well. I have not encountered the hosts before, but I take it that this is a discussion between someone who is represents Scrum, Ryan Ripley and SAFe, Yuval Yeret, respectively. I picked up that Yuval represents the business perspective and when he hears statements like “it’s done when it’s done”, he thinks “not mature”....