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What Gen Y Wants from Work

Wow! This is one awesome post! It almost reads like a manifesto.

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Guest Post: What Gen Y Wants from Work «In other words, companies must feed our urge to jump ship and start a business, by giving us the opportunity to come up with an idea and have free rein over development, implementation and follow through. Logic tells us that companies should not “train” young employees to be entrepreneurs for fear of losing them.

when things go bump in the night

One of the interesting things that I deal with is a rise in blood glucose overnight. I go to bed with a BG of 84 mg/dL (last night), and wake up with a BG of 104 (this morning)! My last meal was about 12 hours ago so what happened?!

This can be the results of two different processes: Dawn Phenomenon and Somogyi Effect.

The dawn phenomenon is a natural part of our bodies circadian rhythm. The evolutionary process developed this so that our ancestors could get up in the morning after a night of fasting and have enough energy to find food. This is great ability to have when your food can run away ( think woolly mammoth ) but not so great when you just need enough energy to open the refrigerator.

The Somogyi Effect is caused by the bodies response to night time hypoglycemia. When BG drops overnight the body reacts by secreting a hormone, glucagon, which signals the liver to start converting stored glucose (glycogen) into glucose. This of course raises your BG.

I notice that my before breakfast morning BG is always higher (about 20 points higher) than my bedtime BG. I believe it's the dawn phenomenon at work. Have you experienced either the dawn phenomenon or the Somogyi Effect and how have you controlled it?

Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership

 

James McGovern is an Enterprise Architect at The Hartford, whose focus is on the human aspects of technology around open source, software security, enterprise architecture and agile software development.

Enterprise Architecture: Thought LeadershipThe funny thing is that everyone has an opinion on what an IT professional is nowadays. Some will even argue what the word professional means. One could say that a professional is someone who gets paid. I guess this makes the baristas at Starbucks or the high school dropout who flips burgers professionals which makes the word professional meaningless.