In recent months many people have asked why the sudden jump to Costa Rica. A dramatic life-change, such as this, obviously indicates a major overhaul in our thinking, and people are understandably curious about the details. Like all good reasons, there is more than one, but the following is …
HP just announced 27,000 layoffs! Normally, as an HP employee, this would be bad news. However, in my particular, twisted case this disaster couldn’t be sweeter. I never thought I would be ecstatic to be laid off. The anticipation of discussing layoffs with my manager was terrifying. I kept telling …
Economists have a term for time and money wasted on loosing endeavors – they’re called “sunk costs.” Sunk costs are any money, time, effort, reputation, or pride that have been spent and cannot be recovered. The rule of sunk costs is to ignore them. Don’t even think about them. As …
We did it! Today we signed the papers to put our house on the market and officially became the Lost and Found Family! We know that we should probably be feeling at least a little anxious about plunging head first into the dark unknown like this – but we don’t. …