Too Little Coffee Man

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How does anything get done with Incrementalists and Completionists arguing about degrees of rightness? Well, first, limber Incrementalists can switch teams. They're opportunists and when they see that acting like a Completionist is a good move and, more importantly, it's an achievable move, they'll step up to the Completionist plate. Once they're there, it's likely they'll engage a Completionist to do the heavy lifting, but the Incrementalist will drive because THEY CAN SEE THE PLAN FROM SOUP TO NUTS. This is a big deal for Incrementalists because they normally can't see past their next meeting... getting them on-board with the "big picture" gives them a sense of foundation they don't usually have.

Conversely, effective Completionists know when to let the Incrementalists poke around and do their thing. Completionists recognize where this Incrementalists with their rapid-fire buzz-speak fit into the corporate culture and they embrace their mania because they know it'll help with their Completionist agenda. This, too, is a big deal because Completionists spend much of their lives shaking their heads, staring at the floor, muttering, "Boy, could they fuck this up more?"

I've discovered an amazingly effective way to get my alarm to wake me up in the morning: set it to Radio rather than Alarm. The alarm buzzer no longer does a good job of waking me up; heavy metal at 4:21 AM does wonders. (Seriously, yesterday and today are a study in contrast. Yesterday I used the alarm setting; when the alarm went off at 4:21, I slept through it for ten minutes, and then hit the snooze button until 5:07. This is not atypical behavior. Today I used the radio setting; when WHFS turned on at 4:21, I was awake and alert within ten seconds.)

On the negative side, I discovered today exactly how useless my library borrowing has been recently. I returned 24 books today (due at various times in the recent past and future; the next time I have a book due is mid-October); of these:

I read two (8.3%) from cover to cover.

I read four (16.7%) about halfway through.

I read bits and pieces of four more (16.7%).

Which means that of the 24 books I returned, I didn't even crack the cover of 14 of them (58.3%).

This is clearly not an efficient way to check out books.

Incidentally, I want to clarify that yesterday's "is my name strong?" post wasn't a request for validation. The question most on my mind wasn't "is my name strong?", in fact, but "is it because I'm so used to it that I don't feel that my name is a strong name?".