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That’s been the theme of my week. Add Value. I suppose at some point in the past it was of some difficulty to coordinate the communication of groups of people. I suppose it required the intervention of a person - a person whose job it would be to simply pass messages back and forth between otherwise separated individuals or groups. Many-to-many communication was difficult.

Today it is not difficult at all. We have machines that will do this for us at damn near the speed of light with a super-high reliability factor. Certainly, those electronics need to be set up, programmed, configured and maintained by intelligent, hard-working people. That job is very useful indeed. But the job of simply repeating information is no longer worthy of humans. If that’s your job today, use your time to develop a good exit strategy. Your future is not bright.

For whatever reason, over and over this week (at work, at the supermarket, everywhere) I’ve been confronted with people who think it’s good enough to simply pass bits of data. No filtering, no analysing, no condensing and summarizing, nor synthesizing, nor evaluating; no adding of value of any kind. They simply pass bits. I have very little patience for those people. Get out of the way. As the t-shirt says…

Add value to the communication. Filter it, analyze it, contextualize it…do something! But whatever you do, add value.

Workout

Warm Up

5x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 65#

3x Chin ups @ BW

5x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 70#

3x Chin ups @ BW

5x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 75#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 80#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 85#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 90#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 95#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 100#

3x Chin ups @ BW

1x Power Snatch & Overhead Squat @ 105#

3x Chin ups @ BW

Squats

5x Squat @ 205#

5x Squat @ 240#

10x Squat @ 270#

5x Assistance Work

Snatch + TGU (ladder: 5,4,3,2,1 ea. arm) @ 24kg KB

10x Good Mornings @ 135#

That brings my squat 1RM up to 360#! Finally broke my actual 1RM.