by Bill on March 28, 2005
There’s a fascinating book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and it helps to explain why the more successful you become in today’s world of work, the more your work becomes a nightmare from which you wonder if you’ll ever wake up. It relates, in part, to something Seth Godin wrote [...]
by Bill on March 27, 2005
I bought a notebook yesterday – something I’ve been planning to do for a while now. But no, it was not a notebook as in a laptop. It was the old fashioned kind. Something with paper and a leather cover. I’ve lost count of the number of notebooks I’ve filled over the years. For some [...]
by Bill on March 25, 2005
It’s not about marketing. Or, maybe it is – in which case, you’ve really got to wonder about the state of marketing today. As an example, I recommend Seth Godin’s post Shortcuts. I think this should be printed out and framed. As a different example of the same dull mindset in the calcified regions of [...]
by Bill on March 21, 2005
Over at Ripples, David has posted Have we reached a tipping point in American employment? And he’s touched on several aspects of today’s corporate work world that make me want to tear my hair out. I call it The Emperor Has No Clothes Phenomenon – the business of saying something is one thing when it [...]
by Bill on March 20, 2005
I’ve had long gaps between posts before but never anything quite like this. It looks like I’ve been away roughly one and a half months. So what’s the story? Well, in a nutshell, illness – some inadvertent, some sort of self-induced. Kinda. The downside of being relatively healthy and going for a very long time [...]