I’m going to be working with an experienced PBS Producer on how to break into the media. Before we meet, she’s asked me to poll some colleagues as to what qualities make me stand out, and what they find special about me.
Being typical, non-emotional, task-oriented guy, I thought of this purely as a request for [...]
How much of our prosperity is driven by innovation, hard work, productivity, yada, yada, yada, and how much is simple demographics?
The Long Now is an organization that encourages long-term thinking. The have free seminars about long-term perspectives. I just finished listening to The Depopulation Problem. The author talks through many economic and social issues, all [...]
Loved Nora Ephron’s take on email today. You can find it at http://SteverRobbins.com/r/m1nog.
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Have you noticed that people don’t like to say,
“I’m making this decision because it’s convenient for me. It may hurt others. It may even hurt them a lot, but my convenience is more important.”
They don’t like to say it because it forces them to face up to their own selfishness. While I’d love to [...]
My purple bracelets from A Complaint Free World. arrived today. Darn.
They’re based on the simple idea that it takes 21 days to break a habit. You wear one, and decide to change the habit. If you relapse, you switch the bracelet to the other wrist and begin again. After you’ve gone 21 days without switching [...]
Use your product before selling it. Please!
Verizon’s IOBI service sounds nice: manage your phones from your web browser. It’s kind of cool. But they screwed up royally. The product likely cost tens if not hundreds of millions to roll out, and it’s clear no one bothered to try using it.
IOBI lets you change your call [...]
Last night at my birthday party, a friend told me how his company insists he show up at work before 9 to make sure everyone’s productive. It seems we’re always trying to increase productivity. But this isn’t sustainable.
You see, productivity has its limits. Period. A woman can’t have a baby in six months by trying [...]
I’ve written before on taking responsibility for your actions. It’s also key to take responsibility for your REactions.
The flap over Imus’s racial slur is amazing. Yes, he used a phrase that was offensive. But what’s amazing is the incredible, over-the-top display of utter hypocrisy and self-deprecation that’s come from everyone else involved in the controversy.
We [...]
I’ve been at a conference these last couple of weeks and am here for yet another week before returning to the relative sanity of my office. Meanwhile, a friend pointed me at this gem:
http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/02/relatively.html
Keeping up with the Joneses. Illustrated perfectly.
Keep in mind that you get to choose whether or not to live in that world…
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A listener has given notice, and wants to know how to approach The Boss to decide what to work on before leaving for good.
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