About

So what is this blog about? It is primarily my thoughts on professional topics of interest (project management and IT application development) and my personal interests (economics, new technologies, alternative energy, and many others). The blog for me is about sharing what I find of interest, and perhaps helping out others with my own take on those topics. 

My name is Mike Haden, and I have been in the application development field in the Canadian upstream oil and gas sector for over 25 years now. As a professional project manager, I invest a lot of my time staying abreast of current thinking on team building, project leadership, and development methods. I follow a number of blogs regularly, as well as particular websites and periodicals. Often, I’ll read something that I feel might be of interest to others – that’s usually the source of my topics.

I was once guided by a fellow blogger to write about what interests me, without concern for whether anyone is reading it. Perhaps I have an audience of exactly 0 readers. Perhaps not. Whatever the audience size, I follow his advice and simply write for the fun and challenge of writing well.

I like simple, clean blogs without noise, where the focus is the writing, the ideas, rather than the pictures, the sidebars, and the Twitter paraphernalia. So what you’ll see here is just that – something simple and clean – a few pictures mixed in once in a while, but mainly writing.

 The blog tagline is “The Adventure of Life” which admittedly doesn’t tell you much. However, I see life – whether it be work or play – as an adventure. We never know what’s around the corner, and we explore day-by-day the paths and junctions from cradle to grave. Tell me what can be more reliably adventurous than our own choices every day.

Personal motto – “Another day in paradise”.  For those of us here in the developed world, no matter how hard a day we have at work, or how bad the traffic is going home, or how difficult things might be on the homefront, just sit back and think about it – each day we are living in a paradise. Reflect on how fortunate we are in all aspects of our lives, and the bad stuff won’t seem quite so bad after a while.