Mitch's Blog

My high school chemistry classroom had this plaque on the wall with an inscription that said: “You don’t go to school to learn anything except how to think.” I thought it was a strange thing to contemplate at the time because my mind said “no, we go to school to learn everything we can so […]

Last night I was part of a get together of local bloggers. I’ve been to this type of thing before, but this was the first I’ve been to that I put together. We hadn’t done this in a long time, as some of the original organizers have moved on to other things that take up […]

I’m often talking about ways to be a good manager. Today I’m going to talk about 3 processes that not only show bad management, but probably shows that manager as not having any idea what they’re doing. A. Doing something just to be doing something IvanWalsh.com via Compfight I remember working for a chief financial […]

I’m diabetic. I’ve been diabetic since September 1997; at least that’s when I was diagnosed. I started taking medication in 2005; by 2007, I was also on insulin. Initially it wasn’t all that difficult because I had this pen that had a small needle attached to it. All I had to do was press it […]

We’ve had a lot of snow in the Syracuse area over the past week, and there’s a lot more coming, it seems. Because I don’t own a snow blower and didn’t sign up for snow removal services, this means I’ve been outside a lot shoveling snow out of the driveway. It’s a tough proposition sometimes, […]