Friday, November 27, 2009
Days after a holiday – especially after Thanksgiving or Christmas – are really strange at work. The office is nearly empty. The people who are here are working but are distracted by the empty space. It’s surreal, being in a place where all the desks look like they normally do but the [...]
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
In the latest (26-Dec-08) entry on Indexed there is this card:
I learned that a friend of mine is moving to Colorado in the next few months. She got an offer to transfer within the company to an office south of Denver and she’s accepting it. So now, she’s thinking about how to [...]
Monday, December 22, 2008
My legs are good friends. They carry me all over the place. On Saturday, they take me to the market and to good coffee. During the week, they make sure I’m at work and then get me home in the evening.
As I’m preparing to run 26 miles in April, they are holding [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
In an article about Plenty of Fish, Jeff Atwood pointed out that the most successful Internet business models boil down to Get Laid and Get Paid.
I don’t think I can argue with the latter. In fact, I don’t think I can argue with the former, either…but I still thought about it a [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Suddenly, I’m running into book after book about how breaking the rules, stepping outside of “safe zones”, doing the opposite of the “consensus opinion” and otherwise being a rebel is the only way to be successful.
There seem to be three schools of thought on how to do this.
1) Stop being safe and start taking risks: [...]
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