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One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

I love doing things people don't expect.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I'm the type to over-analyze everything. If I was to rob a house, I'd have a checklist to make sure nothing goes wrong.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

I love doing things that people don't expect.