About Misinterpretation

It could be you, your message or the environment (context) that is causing the problem. Many people go through life thinking they’re good at reading people’s non-verbal signals. They’ll take a single action by another person and, lacking the requisite empathy to dig further, they’ll ascribe it to a particular feeling — with no back-up information. Needless to say, these people may end up antagonising others (‘No I’m not bored with what you’re telling me; I’m just tired’ … ‘No you’re not — you’re bored, I can tell’ … ‘Will you just leave it for now’ …).

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Über Projekt-Infrastruktur

“Zur Infrastruktur zählen aber nicht nur für die Produktion von Software wichtige technische Geräte, sondern auch Einrichtungen, die für das Wohlergehen der Mitarbeiter sorgen sollen. Das können Kaffeemaschinen, Getränkeautomaten, Ventilatoren, Kühlschränke, Kochnischen zum Aufwärmen von Essen und viele andere Dinge sein. Auch der Ausfall oder das nicht Vorhandensein dieser Angebote senken die Motivation der Mitarbeiter. Man sollte niemals vergessen: Mitarbeiter sind keine Maschinen, die auf Knopfdruck funktionieren.”

Wolfgang Zuser et al. – Software Engineering

About Guidance

‘O my loved guide, who more than seven times
Security hast rendered me, and drawn
From peril deep, whereto I stood exposed,
Desert me not,’ I cried, ‘in this extreme.
And, if our onward going be denied,
Together trace we back our steps with speed.’

My liege, who thither had conducted me,
Replied: ‘Fear not: for of our passage none
Hath power to disappoint us, by such high
Authority permitted. But do thou
Expect me here; meanwhile, thy wearied spirit
Comfort, and feed with kindly hope, assured
I will not leave thee in this lower world.’

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About Meaning

In the last chapter of his book ‘Flow’, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi presents the mesmerised reader with three sides of the word meaning: purpose, resolution, and, ultimately, harmony.

Purpose

In this sense the answer to the old riddle “What is the meaning of life?” turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life.

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