The best visual frameworks clarify the world with simplicity and present the problem in the most basic elements. One of my favorites is the 2X2 matrix. I have been playing around with the idea of adding a section to this blog called 2Xtuesdays for awhile and never did anything about it.

Then my friend Rob Go was late to a meeting and let the world know with this tweet:

Rob was late, but showed the world he has a small ego. Nice.

Schedules are crazy and it is hard to be on-time no matter how hard you try, but the real test is how you deal with being late, when you are inevitably late to an important meeting. I respect the public apology and have laid out a 2×2 framework that I think helps explain the choices we have with respect to punctuality and ego:

just don't be the guy in the bottom right...

Thanks Rob for the inspiration, and I hope inspiration for the next 2Xtuesday will occur in the comments.