My memory was a sieve. I could remember nothing. Dates, names, appointments, faces – everything escaped me. I said to my wife, “Catherine, I shall never make a successful politician, for I cannot remember, and that is a prime necessity of politicians.” My wife told me I must train my memory. So, when I came [...]
Concerned that he lacked a native facility for remembering names and appointments, and believing that “a politician who sees a man once should remember him forever,” Weed consciously trained his memory. He spent fifteen minutes every night telling his wife, Catherine, everything that had happened to him that day, everyone he had met and the [...]
If his devotion were determined by his lack of “faith in ceremonials and forms,” or by his failure “to observe the Sabbath very scrupulously,” Swett added, “he would fall far short of the standard.” However, if he were judged “by the higher rule of purity of conduct, of honesty of motive, of unyielding fidelity to [...]
I was reading The Long Tail by and I ran across a quote he uses when discussing the Pro-Am movement (professional and amateur). Karl Marx was perhaps the original prophet of the Pro-Am economy. As Demos notes, “In The German Ideology, written between 1845 and 1847, Marx maintained that labor-forced, unspontaneous and waged work-would be [...]
It’s been a long time since I last wrote in my journal. Since July actually. I had an idea of what I would like to write about, which I hope means I post more frequently. I would like to write about what I learn that makes a company run well (or not as may be [...]
http://www.brandweek.com/bw/magazine/current/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003467674 I really get tired of reading articles about RFID tags. It’s like the people making the technology are so convinced in the benefits that they ignore the fact that nobody wants them. I think if you want to do some really cool things you can do it with current bar codes and you don’t [...]
This is so cute. I am definitely going to make one of these. I think the nose is pretty said, i’ll use a rivet. Too cute. 37336369_4aade2386f.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×334 pixels) Blogged with Flock
Do you know what I was doing at work this morning? I was purchasing music. That’s right I went online and bought me some music. Normally, I would never do this, I just download it from wherever I can find it. Personally, I am not too worried about the legalities of it, but I don’t [...]
From an article in the FT: Key points 1- Make sure you know who is your potential “high-value” player, which is the person who will place the most value on the deal. 2- Find the decision makers and make sure your they agree with you, then they will sell you from the inside. 3- Make [...]
When you really boil it down, what is work?
Work is getting paid to perform some service. What makes you think that you are really the best person for that job? Although I don’t think most people really view things this way.
I think most people think of work a good compromise; a company needs something done and a person needs money. So what is the difference?
Maybe it is a bit of a stretch, but in essence almost everyone is a sell-out. I would guess that most people really don’t believe in the company they work for, rather they believe in the money they receive.
Should you only work for companies that you believe in their products? In actuality most everything that anyone owns is paid for by selling yourself. You basically trade a huge part of your life away to which ever company will pay you the most.
How many people work for companies that on a global scale cheat their clients, pollute the earth, or have corrupt executives, most of us I would guess?
Maybe only people who have their own business are free from this, unless, of course, your clients are corporations.
And what if you have a shop? Here you are filling a whole store full of products that hopefully you feel are the best on the market. Hmmm, seems like it might be tempting to sell stuff that is okay quality, but give you a good return.
I kind of think we all sold-out a long, long time ago. I guess all we can do is try and be honest, but what are you supposed to say when your girlfriend asks you if you like her family?
Another post for another time.
