[Series] Going to Mars Pt. 1
On May 25th, 1961, the United States’ President John F. Kennedy proclaimed before a Joint Session of Congress, “…I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” On July 16th, 1969, merely 8 years, 1 month and 25 days later, astronaut Neil Armstrong, as a part of the Apollo 11 mission, would become the first human to set foot on another celestial body. The American space program was undoubtedly motivated by their Soviet counterparts, struggling to keep ahead in a proxy race that marked clear progress on both…
Seeing the forest
It’s probably an idiom that you’ve probably heard at some point or another. Whether it’s at home or work, we’ve all run into situations where we become so focused on the details that we completely miss the bigger picture. Tackling a goal gets tangled up in excessive contemplation and planning and it’s only a matter of time before the momentum at the project’s start begins to wane and you’re left wondering what happened. … we become so focused on the details that we completely miss the bigger picture. Examples can range wildly; furnishing a new apartment turns into an endless search for the perfect piece, a software deployment gets hung…
