Work to live or live to work ?
Most people spend the majority of their life working for someone else, this is a short animation to get you thinking.
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ever felt jaded about silicon valley?
This might be a grumpy old man’s opinion, but I think Mr.Calabrese might be on to something:
Jason Fried's work day
Inc Magazine interviews to Jason Fried of 37 Signals: http://bit.ly/2VJGie
I like this part:
After lunch, I get a little lazy between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. I don't feel that productive, so I'm usually screwing around, which I think is really important. Everyone should read stuff on the Web that's goofy or discover something new. I hate it when businesses treat their employees like children. They block Facebook or YouTube because they want their employees to work eight hours a day. But instead of getting more productivity, you're getting frustration. What's the point? As long as the work gets done, I don't care what people do all day.
A wall full of colorful post-it's...the watermark of the creative (gracias @bradfaulkner)
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Forget Rubik's Cube. Can you solve the Ambition Cube?
I've been thinking of ambition and I think this thought will not let me sleep until I commit the germ of it to paper - that is, the virtual yellow legal pad of my iPhone Notes app ;).
Ambition. Years ago, I realised that ambition can kill. Not always biological life, but commonly, the life of the soul. And even more commonly, spiritual life. Envy and selfish ambition, said St. Paul, are the environment for all kinds of evil to flourish. And it's true. At the same time, I believe that I've gone too far in purging myself of selfish ambition, that I've purged all ambition out of myself. This is not healthy either. Lately the thought of ambition has been simmering in my insides again, and I want to state what I consider to be the three characteristics of healthy ambition. Healthy ambition is: shared, scalable and sustainable. This is the Ambition Cube. *Shared* ambition benefits more than one. More than a cabal of cronies. Shared ambition benefits the world - that is, anyone that ambition comes in contact with. It can be, to put a computer on every desk. To organise the world's information. To make a personable computer. It can be, to mend children's cleft lips. To help people die with dignity. To provide drinkable water in African villages. These healthy ambitions benefit every person who encounters them - in small ways, big ways, momentous ways, trivial ways. But they bring benefit far beyond the personal enrichment of the ambition's instigator. *Scalable* ambition works when it's just one person being helped or one million being helped. Mother Theresa started with herself picking up the dying in Calcutta. Then her ambition (we don't usually think of her mission as an ambition, but she was actually a very ambitious lady) spread to others who joined her, and millions got to feel the touch of love and dignity. Healthy ambitions scale. If it takes Billy Boy late nights every night to climb halfway up the corporate ladder, it will cost him his wife and kids (and likely his body) to get to the top. I'm not saying climbing ladders is wrong. I'm saying Billy Bob's got himself a bad ladder.
*Sustainable* ambitions produce - not consume - resources as a net result. Blowing one's life savings on rock climbing is not a healthy ambition. I'm not saying that climbing rocks is bad. I'm saying it has to be sustainable. Perhaps a rock-climbing school that spreads the love of rock climbing as well as brings in revenue to support the passion, is a right idea. That way, it's sustainable, scalable (open more schools) and shared - arguably the most important point.
3 more days to go
3 more days to go and I will be away from the job that I have spent my past 9 years with (9 years and 6 months to be exact).
9 years.
For the first time in many many years, I can't wait to walk away from my comfort zone and be adventurous.
Pet peeves, "I hate it when..."
I finally accumulated enough personal pet peeves I discovered from work experiences to write about. Okay, truth is I never thought I'd get easily annoyed when it comes to work, but as I found out, me on the job(well this job) is a cranky, easily pissed, bipolar biotch lol. So let's begin with the number 5 on the "I hate it when..." list shall we?
5. Boss giving me an urgent job and expecting it to be finished in less than an hour when he/she had a month to look into it prior to throwing it at me. > I usually give my boss the stink-eye -_-
4. I'm hard at work, concentrating to the point of developing telekinetic power and was interrupted by some no-brainer questions like "do you have a highlighter I could borrow?" > Sure, but allow me to levitate the highlighter and stuff it into your nose, you @#$!
3. Coming soon. I gotta post what I've got so far before I accidentally delete it again.
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