Trying Desperately Not To Repeat My Own Mistakes

I had a vivid dream one night last week where I was interviewing a prospective employee, things were going well. He was down to the final round of interviews with myself and some co-workers at Data Driven Design.

I remember, I loved him. I thought, “this is it! This guy is going to come in here and really help us kick some ass!”

He was laid back, pensive, almost shy, but clearly knowledgable — the opposite of me. But he knew his stuff from a digital strategy standpoint, so I was pumped.

Remember, I did say this was a “vivid” dream.

Anyway, what happened next was seriously like something out of a movie.

I asked him his name (dreams are weird though remember? like I wouldn’t know his name in real life), and he said his name was (enter the same name as an employee I had hired almost two years earlier who I had completely overwhelmed in the first three months, to the point where he quit.

“What? Your name is, what?” And as I looked closer, the dude’s face even began to change into that other dude’s face — you know, the one that I had hired, then totally obliterated with so many projects and tasks that he wanted to quit his life.

So weird. Great guy, so in the dream (still thinking it was real life), I said “well, I…