Pushin' Too Hard

"I miss my friend, though."

"How so?"

"That he would be so agitated because of our conversation. He insisted that my thinking was 'narrowly channeled' (my words). I reacted viscerally. I spend most of my waking hours in a pursuit of productive conversations."

"Is it too soon to conclude that the uncomfortable outcome of the most recent meeting signals a failure of that effort?"

"Well, yeah. Probably."

Much potential lies just outside the comfort zone. Risky but rewarding. If the auto-pilot is not doing some of the flying, the resource utilization is usually less than optimal. This assumes said system is reliable and redundant, of course.

© 2011 Buzz Hill