Thinking Flow

That Maytagged feeling

If you’ve ever been surfing you may be familiar with the term, Maytag. If not, hopefully you’ve done laundry once or twice and can make the connection. To be Maytagged is to be tumbled about as if you were in a washing machine. You don’t know which direction is up and you feel utterly powerless That Maytagged feeling

Ripples to Rocks on Mars

I began my career as a geologist, and in 2006 I was working at the US Geological Survey in Santa Cruz, CA. My specialty was geomorphology – the study of the processes that shape the landscape – rivers, glaciers etc. At the USGS I worked with sedimentologist David Rubin. We made numerical and visual models Ripples to Rocks on Mars

I’m so angry at (insert free service)

Every time facebook decides to update itself, folks around the world throw up their arms in disbelief. “How dare you change the look of this free service that I opt into!?”

Meetings congealed

Congealed isn’t the right word, but I wanted to write it. I once worked at a place that was overrun with meetings. Every hour of every day was scheduled by someone for something and more often than not we barely accomplished anything. Now that I run my own show, I’ve been able to be very Meetings congealed

Gressing

My friend @scaevolae recently suggested introducing the word gress into the language of work. To gress is to chug along, slog through, spin wheels, feel like you’re spending all of your time working but without directionality. Add in the prefixes pro or re and you have a vector that indicates something is happening, but gressing Gressing