With Pat engaging in life events, Nate and I take on a two man mission to explore our personal motivations and to what end we are motivated, resulting in what amounts to an interesting and highly introspective conversation on the nature of motivation, particularly in the work place, and some common but powerful motivations.

• Nate Calls Santa 5:26
• Instant Gratification 10:05
• Laziness 12:50
• Learning New Things & Learning New Things Rebuttal 17:17
• Learning New Things Revised - Building Stuff 18:31
• Money? 24:14
• Breakfast Tacos 25:48
• Having a Personal Investment 31:35
• Nate Calls Santa ... Again 33:58

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We fish around a bit for a topic but we finally get there in this episode about our experiences with and insights on working from home.  

Once again I forget to introduce the show - so, Paul, Pat, and Nate, for those of you who have forgotten, and this time we try to make working from home better.

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We took a break from recording for the Christmas times, but had enough B reel on the floor to pull together a few minutes of bonus content, mostly about food for some reason, which shall forevermore constitute episode 3.5.  

We'll be back in two weeks with a regular episode.

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We wander well outside our comfort zone to talk about our qualms, and mostly confusion, with blended rate billing models answering important questions like whether blended rates actually exist, when it's appropriate to leverage such a billing model, and where the best milkshakes are made.

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

How do we become more productive as individuals as a team? Why do we feel like we haven't gotten anything done after working a 12 hour day? Why is it so hard to block off time to actually focus on getting something done well? We fish around in this mire of questions for a root problem and make wild assertions concerning how to make things better.

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Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Nate, Pat, and Paul forego any attempt at professionalism or polish in this pilot episode of I Don't Know What I'm Doing - The Podcast, exploring the paths that brought each of them to technology consulting.