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Decluttering- Finding ways to be more effective and satisfied.
Summary: Over 11 weeks of decluttering, I committed to and did at least 3 hours weekly, but found the clutter’s scope overwhelming. Much remains to be done. Moving forward, I’ll adopt a different approach inspired by Oliver Burkman’s Meditations for Mortals. It seems like just yesterday that I was proposing to my accountability group that I…
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Decision Making and Scope Creep in Home Renovation
The blog post reflects on a home renovation journey, starting with utility room upgrades and expanding beyond. It highlights decision-making challenges, evolving plans, and balancing aesthetics, functionality, and comfort while addressing scope creep and budget considerations. My wife and I have spent the week after Thanksgiving in our coldish house up north working on the…
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Plantar fasciitis story part 2: Human connection on my path to healing
While doing some cleanup in my yard a couple walking by on our country road called out to me to say hello. They looked familiar, though I did not fully remember them. I answered the greeting and walked closer, to continue our neighborly conversation. Debbie and Jim reminded me that we had met previously while…
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Ways ergonomics and human factors can contribute to sustainability. (Let’s crowd source a list!)
Ergonomics is generally applied to help optimize an operation from both the human sustainability and human performance perspectives. The human performance focus often yields operations efficiencies in ways…
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Ergonomics and Sustainability: How can we make a difference?
We ergonomists can make a difference in sustainability** focused efforts by doing what we already know how to do. Day in and day out we apply our ergonomics…
