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On Lame Group Projects

On Lame Group Projects

This made me laugh a little too hard because it reminded me of all my old work peeps back at ARMtech.

It was a running joke that nobody in our department liked doing group projects. 🤣

We might hire an intern?

Make sure they don’t double dip… And ask them if they like group projects!

I also remember a big group presentation I had to do in a capstone course while getting my B.B.A.

I hated the idea of someone else’s poor performance possibly bringing my grade down so much that I picked the topic, wrote the paper, and outlined everyone’s talking points the first weekend after our groups were chosen.

Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

People in large groups are kinda awful. And so is work.

Why make it worse by combining them?

Group projects are a great way to teach kids that people are lazy and that at some point, someone wildly unqualified is going to take credit for the work they didn't do and get a corner office.

— Jon Acuff (@JonAcuff) December 12, 2022

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Smoke Eaters

Smoke Eaters

Good grief why did I write this passage down?

I think it was the reference to the smoke eaters on the ceilings of this club.

I remember smoking cigars in college in a place like this.

Them eaters were supposed to be taking all the smoke out…

But they worked as well as a paperweight would.

It smelled like boredom.

AFTER THE BOARDING HOUSE GIG, I was booked into a club in Nashville called the Exit/ In. It was a low ceilinged box, painted black inside, with two noisy smoke eaters hanging from the ceiling, to no avail. The dense secondhand smoke was being inhaled and exhaled, making it third-hand and fourth-hand smoke. The stage was perfectly situated in the corner of the room.

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (Amazon)

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