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Risk Averse Weenie
In this short video interview with the MIX‘s Polly LaBarre, “Are you a Type A or a Type I”, Daniel “Drive” Pink talks about finding and flocking with the right people for you. Mr. Pink wisely advises each person to “find out what you’re good at when nobody’s looking” and to avoid flocking with “risk averse weenies who are fixated on achievement for achievement’s sake“.
Smart And Well Liked
You like me, you really like me! – Sally Field
When I’m feeling down and I need a good chuckle, I like to periodically parachute into the spam community and observe what they’re saying. Of course, since it’s universally known that all bloggers want to be liked and perceived as super smart, spammers “cleverly” try to exploit that opening:
Bravo guys and gals, right on! But jeeze-us, kant yuo git yore seplling wrgiht?
Multi-Pronged Response
To aid bloggers who’ve signed up for the 2011 “post a day challenge“, wordpress.com e-mails out example topic ideas to stimulate bloggers’ imagination. In “The Impulse to Create”, Daryl Houston poses the question “why do you blog?“.
Hmm. I’ve asked myself that same question several times over the past couple of years. I’ve conjured up this multi-pronged response:
- To share thoughts, ideas, opinions, experiences with anyone who’s willing to listen
- To learn more about the subject I’m writing about
- To blow off steam (against imaginary BMs and BMWs)
- To make stuff up
- To manifest the unmanifested
- To move toward the peak of Maslow’s pyramid: self-actualization
How about you? Is there something you regularly do outside of family and work for your soul?
Boring, Genius, Lunatic
Red State
Yesterday, I rented and watched the latest Kevin Smith movie on YouTube. “Red State” is a well written, well acted, well crafted, and wild cinematic ride that’s way different from any of Mr. Smith’s previous movies.
Created with a miserly budget (like all of his movies) of $5M and distributed by Kevin himself, it stars John Goodman, (Oscar winner) Melissa Leo, Stephen “Office Space” Root, and Michael Parks. Oh, and Kevin Pollak makes a short but memorable appearance and disappearance in the flick. D’oh!
The movie’s plot revolves around the psychopathic deeds “executed” by a god-fearing religious cult and the incompetent hypocrisy of the US ATF in bringing down this “terrorist cell“. Mr. Parks gives a riveting and Oscar worthy performance as the calm and cool psycho-patriarch of the “pure” christian sect.
As is custom, Kevin’s script contains some funny one-liners interwoven with some seriously biting dialog. There are also several shocking “holy shit!” scenes that come out of nowhere to keep you on the edge of your seat and highly engaged with the medium. Fer sure, it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. You should see it too.
Note: I have no idea if the fictional town of “Cooper’s Dell” resides in the great state of Texas. It’s just the first state that came to mind when I started to compose the dorky BD00 graphic for this post. Hee Haw!
Devilbert
Set Your Mind On Fire
One of my favorite authors on the topics of creativity and innovation, Scott Berkun, is about to hatch his fourth book: “Mindfire: Big Ideas For Curious Minds“.
Checkout the innovative way Scott is employing to launch the book: Kickstarter. Of course, I’ve signed up as a backer. Maybe you should too?
Related articles
- Need ideas: fun rewards for Mindfire book pre-orders? (scottberkun.com)
- Mindfire preorders now up – via kickstarter (scottberkun.com)
- 3 Do’s from the book “Myths of Innovation” by Scott Berkun (itsonelife.com)
Direct Experience Is Not Enough
I read a lot of books and articles in topic areas that, for some divine reason that I don’t know, interest me. I do it because personal growth and development through doing and interacting with others in a local environment, even though it instills deep understanding and nurtures social bonding, is just too glacially slow for me.
The next best thing to learning via direct experience is to expose oneself to the work and personal experiences of others through reading what they wrote. Even though I’ve never met them, I think of my favorite technical authors as a group of highly competent consultants readily available at my beckon call. How about you? What techniques and practices do you employ to keep on growing and developing?
Revoked Membership
In Stop Coddling the Super-Rich, Warren Buffet states:
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice. – Warren Buffet
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. – Warren Buffet
As Vineet Nayar is to CEOs, Warren Buffet is to the super-rich. I luv both those guys. What about you?
More What?
My dog “Morrie” is a beautiful creature. On top of that, he’s uh hilariously dumb ass in the mould of his human step father. Depending on the situation we’re involved in together, I either call him “More-Easter“, or “More-Keester“. Every once in awhile, I call him by his real name, “Morrie”, so he doesn’t fugget it. I call him “More-Easter” (like the Nor’easter storm and not the dogmatic christian easter) when he’s wreaking havoc, and “More-Keester” when he’s acting like his dad; a keester. Which nickname do ya think I use more frequently?
Why am I here?
WTF?
Meh!
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