Savory Unicorn & Heirloom Tomato Bruchetta Recipe

• 14 ounce can of Unicorn Meat
• 6 or 7 ripe plum tomatoes (about 1 1/2 lbs)
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
• 6-8 fresh basil leaves, chopped.
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 1 baguette French bread or similar Italian bread
• 1/4 cup olive oilChop the tomatoes and mix with garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and basil leaves. Toss well. Slice baguettes on the diagonal about 1/2″ thick. Brush each slice with olive oil and add a full rounded tablespoon of Unicorn Meat, spreading over each piece. Toast in a 450 degree directly on over rock for 5-6 minutes. Do a little funky dance by yourself until it’s toasted. Serve with tomato mixture and some flaming Absinthe.

I wrote this reply to Kent Bottles’ post on whether the Internet is good or bad for you.  http://icsihealthcareblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/kent-bottles-is-the-internet-good-or-bad-for-you/#comment-354

That’s quite a mindful—my email just beeped and my MP3 died, so I am going to put this on hold for a second.

Where were we?  A few observations if I may.  Instead of concluding we have difficulty being in the moment, since the way we’ve lived since the infusion of all digital all the time, perhaps the meaning of being in the moment has changed.  Were there similar discussions at the invention of the phone, the radio, the turntable, and the television?  Goodness knows did not we go through many of the same changes—listening to the radio while doing homework, watching TV while conversing with family?

On the issue of multi-tasking, studies suggest we are able to function less effectively while being mutli.  Does that not depend somewhat on the nature of the task?  Let us consider the question, function less at what.  If it has to do with a task of doing ones taxes while checking email and speaking on the phone; that may be true.  If the same functions are considered in light of someone who hates doing their taxes, and has no pressing deadline, no hard stop, perhaps the diversions make the onerous task seem a little less so.

Perhaps there are certain tasks we were unable to do before the internet engulfed our approach to our waking hours.  Perhaps, there are tasks made easier by multi-tasking.  I can be in a group discussion on Google Wave, giving assignments.  The group can be updating and discussing a presentation stored in a cloud—all in real-time.  While downloading a .rar file of a chapter of an audio book for a key deliverable, instead of having to rush to Borders and read it, I may have Pandora running in the background, and may get a text message from someone in the group about a comment they did not wish to share with the group.

That same group can be assigned individual tasks to be completed within the next twenty-four hours.  Members will be assigned to “post” their deliverables to the group at various times for individual comment, and a final meeting invite will be sent by the last person to finish their task.  Pretty efficient.  Certainly better than the days when we felt fortunate simply to be able to FedEx a draft of the deliverables to each of the members, some of whom are overseas, and wait 48 hours to view their feedback.

Perhaps the relevancy of good versus bad internet depends more on what you are trying to do.  Some people who have self-diagnosed ADHD—I barely have time to focus on having AD, let alone all four letters—may find this a blessing.  I have the attention span of a half-life of a fruit fly.  I bore easily, and on occasion bore others easily.  Stuck in this digital cornucopia, I am able to function at a higher level.

As I write this, I have eleven browser windows open, am synching my cell phone, downloading music on LimeWire, am working on a new blog post—not this one, and writing the first two chapters of my book on leadership.  This approach relaxes me.  If I had to do just one of those knowing I could not do something else until the first was complete, I’d be in therapy.

Paul M. Roemer
Chief Imaginist, Healthcare IT Strategy

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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  Einstein said it differently—doing the same thing over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

I spent fifteen years consulting in what used to be the Big 8 accounting firms.  I spent the last fourteen years going through a self-contrived twelve-step program to cleanse myself from the prior fifteen.  I left during the period I was told I was up for partner—be careful what you strive for as you may attain it.

That brings us to last week.  I was invited to meet with one of “those” firms.  For what purpose?  To discuss leading their Healthcare IT consulting practice.  And, met with them I did.  The gentleman walked into the room and extended his hand toward me.  One his ring finger was a large gold nugget ring—I kid you not—the kind worn by Texas oil men and Philly gangsters.  His pompadourish hair was over-gelled, and his pocket handkerchief was flamboyant enough to have come from a belly-dancer’s chiffonier.

I started getting the willies two minutes into the conversation as he was explaining how the much the industry had changed, how much more genial it had become.  Indeed.  Sort of like saying Satan had mellowed.

I was getting angrier by the minute.  Not at him, but at me for having ignored my hard-earned good wisdom and thinking maybe things would be different this time.

There’s the expression saying if you don’t study history you are destined to repeat it.  I’ve decided to get a better grasp of history.

Paul M. Roemer
Chief Imaginist, Healthcare IT Strategy

1475 Luna Drive, Downingtown, PA 19335
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paulroemer@healthcareitstrategy.com

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