I’ve been in a few places where teamwork dries up. I’m not sure why it happens, but when it does the results are usually pretty bad. For some reason across the entire enterprise people just stop being kind to one another. Sometimes they hide behind rules and policies and stop trying to help each other. “I’m sorry I’d like to email you a heads up about situation X but my supervisor has to approve any inter-departmental emails now.” is an example. Sometimes they don’t share information because they worry it will be used against them. Sometimes they just don’t consider their fellow workers because they are too self focused or stressed out.

I wonder if senior leaders see this happening from their vantage point? How does one see friction in an organization?

My long delay in posting is somewhat attributable to my discovery of the Neverwinter MMO on PS4 and then on PC. I really enjoy playing MMOs on the console.

WoW was great and fun and I spent way too much time playing that game, but the console MMOs are great because they have less options for spells and actions. I don’t need macros and a qwerty keyboard to play. All the important things are mapped to a set of buttons and everything else is left out.

This Father’s day I had the rare treat of going to the Origins Game Fair. I really enjoy Origins and should probably consider attending more of the con rather than making a Sunday exhibit hall run for deals. Don’t get me wrong, the Sunday deal hunt is a time honored tradition passed down by my friend Rocky and this year I scored a most excellent deal. I am wondering I shouldn’t have sat in on a Pathfinder 2 demo session just to see what changed. I really would like to avoid the need to buy version 2 materials since I’ve got a nice original Pathfinder collection going already and I like the system as is.

Maybe next summer I’ll go for a few days…

I have been using a *NIX system for a few decades now and it seems to become more challenging as time goes by to teach people about linux command line. I cannot tell if I’m turning into a crumudgeon or if there has been a fundamental shift in the mentality of computer users, especially new system administrators. Is learning a list of useful commands just not done today? Are people happy to use an interface to accomplish most things and then just go without advanced features? I don’t know, but I do know it seems harder now to teach command line usage than it was 5 years ago.