The one thing age and experience has taught me is that everyone has a story. I am originally from Brooklyn, but have lived in the Hudson Valley of NY these past 8 years after bouncing around the US and overseas. Where are you?

I am a much better listener nowadays to reap the benefits of others perspectives and experiences. I lost my ego with the birth of my first child decades ago; this was a nice surprise. It helped me to look outside myself more. However, most jobs becomes routine after a while, which causes complacency and accidents. Beginning technical divers follow a Weibull distribution of early incidents due to inexperience. The curve stays low and flat. Even the best experienced divers get complacent and incidents occur at the end of this curve, hopefully not stopping there, which could mean they died, or were scared or injured enough to change their job.

The less glamorous sides of an eclectic CV are that you may be really good at a few things, maybe you've mastered one or two, but you have gaps for sure. You need to leverage the macro view of business and problem solving you have earned and learned from your multiple experiences. I can honestly say I sometimes just jumped due to boredom, but for the most part it was to learn something new that crossed my horizon. The trick is to push horizon.

Currently reading Richard Hamming's, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learing to Learn", and it is proving to supports some of my held beliefs, yet it has also exposed some flaws in the mix. Good read.

Happy New Year!