Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Manifesto for Growth. Matt's right. It's worth the full post. A personal manifesto for growth. Manifesto for Growth via Absolute One: Allow events to change you Forget about good process is more important than outcome love your experiments like ugly children go deep capture accidents study drift begin anywhere everyone is a leader harvest ideas, edit applications keep moving slow down don't be cool (cool is conservative fear, dressed in black) ask stupid questions collaborate an image which email won't replicate Allow space for ideas you haven't had yet Stay up late Work the metaphor time is genetic repeat yourself make your own tools stand on someone's shoulders avoid software (everyone has it) don't clean your desk don't enter awards (its bad for you) creativity is not device dependent organisation is liberty don't borrow money listen carefully take field trips imitate make mistakes faster scat (break it, stretch it, crack it, fold it) explore the other edge coffee breaks, cab rides, ream (?) rooms avoid fields, jump fences laugh remember power to the people [via NotExactly] [via Sebs Open Research] [via The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty] » Thought provoking list.  I would add: always write it down listen to lots of good music seek first to understand, then to be understood review often ride change go do something different instead ...   [Curiouser and curiouser!] [The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty] 7:02:17 AM    comment []

Read This ! Generation Wrecked. Read This !  Generation Wrecked A non blogger friend just sent me this, a great Fortune magazine article about the "Generation Wrecked": Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Films like Singles and Reality Bites chronicled their transition from college graduate to Gap salesclerk. A few years later the core of Generation X--the 40 million Americans born between 1966 and 1975--found themselves riding the wildest economic bull ever. Salesclerks became programmers; coffee slingers morphed into experts in Java (computerese, that is)--all flush with stock options and eye-popping salaries. Now that the thrill ride is over, Gen X's plight seems particularly bruising. No generation since the Depression has been set up for failure like this. Everything the dot-com boom delivered has been taken away--and then some. Real wages are falling, wealth continues to shift from younger to older, and education costs are surging. Worse yet, for some Gen Xers, their peak earning years are behind them. Buried in college and credit card debt, a lot of them won't be able to catch up as they approach their prime spending years. (I added the bold). This is a really, really scary article.  If you have a job now and you're not happy?  My advice: STAY PUT.  This recession has been what I've called to friends for some time "The Quiet Recession".  If you weren't directly affected then you didn't realize how bad it was.  This article spells it out clearly and succinctly. Now, if I was really, really cynical, I'd comment that America's current Iraq fervor is because a) Bush knows exactly how bad it is and b) he knows that he can't fix it and c) war is a big distraction. But I'm not cynical.  No I'm not.  Really I'm not. [The FuzzyBlog!] 6:57:19 AM    comment []

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