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Get up and make it happen, LW
| — | Joichi Ito – NYTimes.com (via rachelfershleiser) |
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So, Do It!
How many times each day do I tell myself that I can’t? How many times do each of us tell ourselves that? Feels like billions.
Thank you, Sadie! I needed this.
From Jake via Jon via Jonathan.
Everybody’s all connected.
Doing a Good Job
I doubt myself many times each day (minute, second…) at work. Wondering how (and if) I can do better. Right now, I feel like I fall into the first category (below). Thank you, Seth Godin, for helping me aim for the second. For giving me permission to be better.
Are you doing a good job? via Seth’s Blog by Seth Godin on 3/15/11
One way to approach your work: “I come in on time, even a little early. I do what the boss asks, a bit faster than she expects. I stay on time and on budget, and I’m hardworking and loyal.”
The other way: “What aren’t they asking me to do that I can do, learn from, make an impact, and possibly fail (yet survive)? What’s not on my agenda that I can fight to put there? Who can I frighten, what can I learn, how can I go faster, what sort of legacy am I creating?”
You might very well be doing a good job. But that doesn’t mean you’re a linchpin, the one we’ll miss. For that, you have to stop thinking about the job and start thinking about your platform, your point of view and your mission.
It’s entirely possible you work somewhere that gives you no option but to merely do a job. If that’s actually true, I wonder why someone with your potential would stay…
In the post-industrial revolution, the very nature of a job is outmoded. Doing a good job is no guarantee of security, advancement or delight.
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Hearing Bruce Sterling speak is An Experience.
Here are a few notes I took during his keynote at South by Southwest. The final keynote of the conference.
I wanted to declare my passionate solidarity with the millennials. Baby Boomers: Shut the hell up! You’ve got the votes and the money, you’ve got no conscience. Who is going to feed you? … What medical care will you have? [Millennials:] I’ll vote for ya. I’ll sleep on the floor with ya. I’ll live out of a backpack. You need a general strike. They’re not going to employ you? Get the hell away from them. Leave wherever ya are, move to Austin. Take over the town. Withdrawal from places that are top heavy with elderly people. Make friends with the cops. They’re all guys your own age beatin’ you up so they can disenfranchise themselves. Days of rage, baby!
