Today will include more office setup.
– Swap in new monitors (on the chessboard)
– Setup router
– More on the Chessboard stuff
– Off the Chessboard Stuff

Swap in new monitors – The first set of monitors suck. I tried their default setting profiles as well as adjusting them manually. The issue is contrast, can’t get any. Blacks aren’t black. They will be going back to Amazon. I walked into Costco expecting to find similarly priced monitors that would do a better job. I wanted 27″ LED monitors with good contrast. They did have what I normally would have bought, but… they had Samsung 32″ curved monitors on sale for the same price.

I might post a separate post about the monitors. The Samsung monitors will work fine.

Setup router – They have a shared customer LAN here at BremertonWorkSpace.com. They also could setup a VLAN. I think the VLAN has a monthly fee, the router was a cheaper solution. There is a printer on the shared LAN but NAT!

More on the Chessboard Stuff – I have a few more must-do things and then…

Off the Chessboard Stuff – Well, hopefully I’ll get there today. I do expect to do so.

Many writers are writing what writers write. Some write to express themselves, some to entertain and some to inform.

When I commute, I listen to audiobooks. These are most often related in some way to my vocations jack-of-all-consulting and running a niche printing business. One theme I find in many of these books, and one that speaks to me is the need to focus. In a recent listen Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, the author Gino Wickman discusses to a great extent the need of the management team to spend time focusing.

Focus is a narrowing of thought to such an extent that unrelated materials become unseen.

I have heard people describe me as very focused. I find myself in a continuous struggle to focus. I am inherently self-distracting.

As we depart the riverbank, the pram gently rocking as the pole man does his work… That time apart to focus, time “off the chessboard” yet focusing on the same, that is what this is about. We embark on an experiment to prove the practical effect(s) of focus.

I will spend some time, 1-2 days a week for 5-8 weeks in a monitor-lit room with limited input from outside sources. This will be a sort of self-imposed exile (here). It is also a pilgrimage to clarity. Let’s see what we find…