Chipotle Restaurants and Customer Evangelism

I am a Chipotle evangelist. I love the food at these amazing Mexican restaurants. The meat is flavorful, tender, and tasty. The rice and beans are seasoned just so. And the Salsas are the best in the business. You can custom blend the ingredients to make the best tacos, burritos, or Mexican salads on the [...]

The Year In Review: Preliminary Roundup

As the year is winding down, I like to reflect back to see how the year went, by looking at what worked and what didn’t. I have had some incredible successes as well as some surprising failures. This blog has been a real measuring rod. It has really helped me see what is important to [...]

Gift Tags For The Analytical Mind

Holiday time can be a tough time for the analytical people in your life. The whole idea of gift giving may be foreign to them causing them inordinate amounts of grief. They may spend hours in a store analyzing items to buy for different people. The thought that they may buy the wrong gift haunts [...]

Optitasking Tools

As I have been working in a focused manner over the last few months at my desk at home, I’ve discovered some things that make the experience much more enjoyable. When you sit in one place for 48 minutes straight it’s nice to have music playing, a beverage, a comfortable chair, and good lighting. When [...]

Optitasking at Work

I’ve been under the influence of some huge projects at work this month. Projects that are tedious at best. I work with databases and all sorts of data on a daily basis. Sometimes data can be a 500 pound gorilla on your back. Currently I’m moving over 60 specialized user accounts from one server to [...]

The Amazing Power of Optitasking

Over the past two months I have experimented extensively with the idea of a focused work period. The concept is to take an hour time interval and divide it up into two periods. The longer period you work in a focused manner on one task and only one task. The other shorter period is for [...]