The Blunder Years, Episode 5: The Encouragement Engineer and the "reality of life kicking in"

Work-life balance, losing parents and losing kids, not being able to give 110 percent at work anymore, and the "value chasm" of individuals.

I've written a lot of posts on this blog -- it's somewhere around 2,400 right now, and I only started writing in October 2013. I'm prolific. (I think that's a good thing, but I am sure sometimes it's not.) Periodically, people will ask me my favorite post ever. I honestly can barely remember maybe 100 total posts out of the 2,400, but one of my favorite…