It’s been almost two months since I started on a change in path and stood up 4th Spaces. In those two months, I have received one question more than any other: what do you like doing most? At first, it was a tough question to answer on the spot. There is so much that goes…
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It is nearing the end of 2023; a year that has not been like any before it!
It is Thanksgiving week in the US. This is the perfect time for a little pause to look back on all the change that we have been dealing with. Self-reflection is an activity that has benefits beyond just a review of the year. It can help with stress by putting the day-to-day into perspective. It…
Taking time to stop and recognize your biases will help you better approach the problems you are trying to solve.
Hi, my name is David, and I actively hold many biases about the right ways to approach corporate real estate. All of us have biases. They are formed through teaching and experience. There are many ways that biases both help and hinder us in our everyday lives. Sometimes making things easier (a bias against a…
I am terrible at disconnecting from work and taking real time away, but I am told practice makes perfect.
I am out of the office right now. [Note: this post was intentionally written before I left so I would not eat into my actual time away!] This is weird for me to say since I have been a full-time work-from-home person for over a decade now. Being out of the office is my default…
This is a message for all the mentors in this world who do not know that they are mentors.
I have been blessed in my career to have a number of managers and leaders that I have been able to look up to and learn from. Most of these individuals probably never even realized that I was learning from their actions and behaviors. Some of them may not even remember me at all. But…
Are you stopping to take the time to cut through the noise that is preventing you from being successful?
One of the most important metrics I use to measure success on projects is highly subjective: Noise Ratio. Essentially, it comes down to how much yelling did we expect to happen went we rolled the solution out versus how much did we actually receive. If you hear less noise from leaders, managers, and employees than…
I hope everyone has a Happy Holidays and a Great New Year! I for one will be very happy to have 2022 behind me.
We have finally reached that time of the year when we all share our thoughts for the year past and our hopes for the year ahead. It’s a wonderful period meant for global introspection and resetting our mindset for what comes next. Not everyone takes it that way, but most give it a shot. 2022…
I have struggled to get back into writing. Can I rip the bandage off and just go again…?
I thought I was going to be back in April. That was almost five months ago. Before that, I thought I was going to be back in August 2021 with my 10-year anniversary of writing. That did not work out either. My 11th anniversary came and went in a pandemic-era blur. Multiple people have asked…
Moving homes after a decade feels a bit odd but exciting.
I have contemplated moving from a WordPress-hosted blog to one on a URL I control for nearly five years now. I have spent more time than I care to admit contemplating it back and forth before always deciding to hold ground on where I had been the whole time. There is something comforting in the…