Crumple Zones

Whether you’ve been just getting into Formula One or binging Drive to Survive I’m sure you’ve heard of a crumple zone before. “Crumple zones, crush zones,[1] or crash zones are a structural safety feature used in vehicles, mainly in automobiles, to increase the time over which a change in velocity (and consequently momentum) occurs from the impact during a collision by a […]

RED FLAGS VS GREEN FLAGS

This meeting topic has been originally created by JB: What makes a company, a job, a team, worth sticking around or moving for? Is the devil you know better than the devil you don’t? These are questions that I ponder quite often as I have been in a non-committal job search for the past 4 years. […]

Post Pandemic Resolutions

Just over two years ago, we met for breakfast to discuss goal setting. I implore you to revisit the post. At the time I suggested that we take a stab at developing a five or ten year plan to help guide us through the ‘roaring twenties’. Little did I (or anyone else) know that there […]

Virtual Work VS Office Work

How could we do a breakfast series in 2020 without diving into the topic of virtual working? With the advance of video conferencing (MS Teams / Zoom) and cloud computing, working from home has become a real option to many organizations. The benefits of remote work can be very attractive. For one, a lack of […]

Motivation and Mentorship

Hello everyone, It feels like it’s been too long since the last early birds breakfast. During the last one, I for one thought that we’d only have one virtual breakfast before getting back to normal. Unfortunately this is not the case. I think the biggest struggle I’ve been facing over the last couple months is […]

Isolation Edition

Oh boy, This work-from-home / isolation / social distancing thing has thrown my routine and schedule right out the window. I am a creature of habit and I love optimization. Some of you may have gathered from past breakfasts that I am somewhat obsessively trying to develop the best schedule in my life that optimizes […]

Evolving/Transformation

Happy New Years! Are your goals still intact? Have you given up? Are you like most workplaces and set goals for the year by the end of Q1? How frustrating is that? I committed to myself that I’d have a breakfast out in January and here we are. January 31st. Maybe one of my goals […]

Goal Setting

Wow. It’s almost 2020. The turn of a new decade. The ‘roaring twenties’ as they say. This is very appropriate as most of us in the group fall into the ‘mid twenties’ demographic. How do we ensure that our twenties keep roaring, and don’t turn into the ‘dirty thirties?’ The answer is: Planning and Goal […]

Yearning Octopus

It’s been a really long time since the last Early Birds > Late Worms breakfast. Not to worry, I haven’t given up on these. I’d like to thank JB (& SH) for the nudge and inspiration for the theme for this breakfast: The Yearning Octopus. Warning: it is a very long read & I’m still digesting. […]

Doppelgengers

Okay… so not one of you filled out the survey to suggest a topic. This leaves me to select a topic all on my own. Good luck. This breakfast, I’d like us to give a shot at discussing a topic that has been on my mind quite often recently. That is: Parallel Lives – Finding your doppelganger […]