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Just enough to keep going

I wouldn’t have started this blog if I didn’t find it intrinsically valuable to spend the time writing.

That said, I’m not sure if I would have continued the blog if nobody read it.

But I want to be clear: I’m defining “nobody” as nobody. Not a single person.

Not like the teenager saying “nobody likes me” when they really mean that nobody popular pays attention to them.

Casey von NeumannJanuary 13, 2023balancing risk and reward, 022023, 030723, 031323, 032023, 041823, 050223Comment

Measuring the magic

I went to an awful lot of trouble this fall to attend a conference in Bangkok.

It took a few hours and a couple thousand dollars to get everything booked. I had to block off several days during which I was unable to do anything for clients. I logged 30 hours of travel each way. I suffered from terrible jet lag.

And then, Covid.

Casey von NeumannDecember 7, 2022122122, balancing risk and rewardComment

The invisible upside

It turns out that the nine-year-old piano students, the thirteen-year-old awkward middle schoolers, and the adult professionals I’ve worked with over the years have a lot in common.

One recurring theme is their (our) tendency to eliminate potential choices based on the whisper of a possible negative outcome.

We refuse to do something that we want to do because we’ll have to do something we don’t want to do along the way.