{"id":1128,"date":"2007-01-24T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T07:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2007-01-24T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T07:46:57","slug":"i-should-just-jump-to-step-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"I should just jump to step 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what has been happening at work lately is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They tell me to do something,<\/li>\n<li>I tell them it&#8217;s stupid via email,<\/li>\n<li>I tell them it&#8217;s stupid in person, then<\/li>\n<li>I end up doing what they asked in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One of my problems is that I&#8217;m quite emphatic in my resistance to their demands. I really should learn to just jump to step 4. That&#8217;s the engineer in me. Especially the MIT engineer in me. I ended up staying late to finish up the thing I was complaining about this time. I&#8217;m not so clever.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons I pay a personal trainer are myriad, but one of the reasons is that Dave the Trainer appears to know what he&#8217;s doing and I end up finding muscles in places that I thought were fine until I find out just how sore they can get. For example, he had me doing some really simple crunches while I held a cable up to my neck. There wasn&#8217;t much weight on the cable and I didn&#8217;t think much of the crunches <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">UNTIL TODAY<\/span>. I bet if I got enough sleep the soreness wouldn&#8217;t take a full day to show up.<span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what has been happening at work lately is: They tell me to do something, I tell them it&#8217;s stupid via email, I tell them it&#8217;s stupid in person, then I end up doing what they asked in the first place. One of my problems is that I&#8217;m quite emphatic in my resistance to their demands. I really should learn to just jump to step 4. That&#8217;s the engineer in me. Especially the MIT engineer in me. I ended up staying late to finish up the thing I was complaining about this time. I&#8217;m not so clever. The reasons I pay a personal trainer are myriad, but one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I should just jump to step 4.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}