technology where little exists… hacking the simple life
Flickr: Really cool. Yahoo!: Really big. I decided to use a Flickr account for the youth group that I work with at church. In order to do so, I needed to create a Yahoo! account (yes, I got in after the acquisition). I created one, uploaded some pictures and then went a few weeks without …
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Last Friday I celebrated my last day of work in a job I wasn’t suited for. On Monday evening, I flew to New Jersey to teach a 3-day class on a technical certification. Right before I boarded my plane home, my worst short-term fear was realized. The project: cancelled. I return home from my first …
On Tuesday, I promised you news soon. When I first did my ‘passion intersections‘ months ago, I listed technology instructor as one. About 3 weeks ago, my sister made me aware of a teaching opportunity with the company she works for. I followed the appropriate process, and went to a 3-day training session in Philadelphia, …
Congratulations on your new company. I hope you’ve found some experts that you expect to make your job as CEO easier. Hire a graphic artist to do your graphics, give him direction, but don’t hold his hand. That’s his thing. Hire an accountant to take care of payroll and taxes. Don’t ask him to cook …
It seems that the one carryover from brick-and-mortar, manual, old school business to the new knowledge-based economy is that upper management likes to have meetings. Meetings are necessary. Meetings suck. Here’s my meeting school: Meetings are good: Task assignments are best identified by the team, rather than just direct orders by a superior. Resource allocations …
Happy New Year! I think. Hopefully your endeavors for the year are off to a good start. If you’re a leader working to motivate people, I have some ideas for you. Compensation alone can only motivate temporarily. Substantially higher pay for mundane work may get Samuel motivated to work on a project for a very …
The Lazy Way to Success: The Apprentice Sends a Bad Signal A good, quick read on how The Apprentice discourages teamwork.
You know I’m working on building my personal network, so here’s a little column I wrote for colaspot on the details of my personal “Yeah, I have a guy for that.”
Have you read The Lazy Way to Success yet today? The Lazy Way to Success: The Secret to Attracting Resources Wow, Uncle Fred knows exactly what I need to hear and when I need to hear it. December 9th is still looming out in the distance. But something needs to change on that date, ya …
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Just as if I needed further convincing that I’m in the wrong place, the yesterday’s work day was beyond terror. The sick feeling I get when walking in the building was met by a few brilliantly-placed and crafted processes (read: “who came up with this idea?”), personality conflict and overall frustration. Then Murphy bears his …