{"id":41445,"date":"2014-10-14T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/?p=41445"},"modified":"2014-10-13T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:14:58","slug":"joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/10\/14\/joy\/","title":{"rendered":"On joy."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maggie's <\/a>
Maggie’s point, Plainsboro Preserve, Plainsboro, NJ <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jack <\/a>
Jack and David playing Minecraft <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jack <\/a>
Jack and David at Chuckles Pizza, Lawrenceville, NJ <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pan <\/a>
Pan pizza with fresh mozzarella, crushed tomatoes, and homemade dough by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"david <\/a>
david with leaf (photo) by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jack <\/a>
Jack with leaf <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Arduino <\/a>
Arduino simple circuit by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"simple <\/a>
simple circuit with LED and momentary switch by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Arduino <\/a>
Arduino starter project 09: Motorized pinwheel <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Project <\/a>
Project 09 – Motorized Pinwheel in Fritzing by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"spinach <\/a>
spinach soup by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"pomegranate <\/a>
pomegranate by lemasney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Joy is<\/h1>\n
    \n
  • Your sons carrying around rocks and leaves that they found for you, that meet clear expectations, and exceed them.<\/li>\n
  • Quiet in the forest;\u00a0Sanctitude<\/li>\n
  • Solving a problem that you did not know existed.<\/li>\n
  • Sharing what you know.<\/li>\n
  • Listening to good music.<\/li>\n
  • Gaining knowledge with others.<\/li>\n
  • The freedom to understand, create and share.<\/li>\n
  • The ability to express yourself confidently in any media (textual, verbal, visual, code, physical).<\/li>\n
  • Being able to see a problem for what it is: a construct that a dog would not care about.<\/li>\n
  • The ability to cook a delicious meal and share it, and the knowledge of how to make it with those you care about.<\/li>\n
  • The ability to see nonsense for nonsense, and simply letting it go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Joy is Your sons carrying around rocks and leaves that they found for you, that meet clear expectations, and exceed them. Quiet in the forest;\u00a0Sanctitude Solving a problem that you did not know existed. Sharing what you know. Listening to good music. Gaining knowledge with others. The freedom to understand, create and share. The ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,7,18,3653,21,23,24,31,32],"tags":[3875,3870],"class_list":{"0":"post-41445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-affiliations","8":"category-consulting","9":"category-cv","10":"category-insights","11":"category-professional-activities","12":"category-professional-experience","13":"category-publications","14":"category-teaching","15":"category-teaching-experience","16":"tag-arduino","17":"tag-john-lemasney","18":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Arduino-Starter-Kit-Project-09-Motorized-Pinwheel.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3h6y2-joy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7413,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/02\/14\/45-365-effortless-work-minimalism-design-principle\/","url_meta":{"origin":41445,"position":0},"title":"45 of 365: On the effortless work: Minimalism design principle","author":"lemsy","date":"2014-02-14","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most lovely things that I have enjoyed as a part of my design and consulting practice is the ability to stay fairly stress free in the effort. 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