Seeking Coastal Utopia

“aerial view of bridge with cars crossing” by Fahrul Azmi on  Unsplash I love generalities because it makes it easier for the simple human mind to focus and work on items when they are categorized in nice boxes. Make the math easier. Makes it easier to eat elephants. Recognize that now you are reading through this, your filter is going to show the rule of threes to you everywhere. You will also find that these “rules” will make things easier, flow better, and even provide results sooner. The Rule of Threes happens to be my favorite guideline for all things, for all time. The Rule of Threes shows up everywhere — in work and life. Most certainly because my mental filter is set to find those patterns, yet nevertheless, it works and makes better sense of the world. The Rule of Threes makes it easier to get stuff accomplished by helping understand the ratios of requirements for different subjects or how to approach work. You can use it for estimations, allocations, resource ...

I started my career in the military, working on avionics for the United States Marine Corps Harrier AV-8B Night Attack program (VMA-211 ).  In avionics, you quickly learn that feedback is a bad thing. Its negative connotation stems from electronic sound distortion caused by a signal input from the same device, the electronic noise (squeal) that you experience from a microphone being too close to a speaker of the same source.  The most entertaining example form of system feedback is best managed by The Culps as they set-up to start singing to a medley of songs (not the pros, but close enough!) Alas, the real feedback is good. The intent of feedback is to reinforce good behavior and is the easiest way to learn how to provide feedback.  Look for others doing good around you, recognize that good action, and reinforce these actions with positive feedback, which will lead to that good action being repeated in the future.  That positive reinforcement form of feedbac...