Here's a great post on Lifehacker about combating brain drain. I do most, and they work (except when I backslide and have a high-sugar afternoon snack--don't do that!).
How about a good music reference page compliments of NPR?
Here are 10 Career Killers to avoid. I like a couple -- keep your skills and knowledge up to date and don't confuse efficiency with effectiveness (something I read in a Peter Drucker book years ago that stuck).
I don't like everything I see on this blog, but here's good advice for making the best of the writers' strike --get away from TV. Get a life. I have stopped almost all TV except for the Weather Channel on the 8s and pro football (especially in the rare cases when Dayton TV shows the Browns). Don't miss it.
There's a lot of analysis going in in the technology world about the impact of Facebook's new advertising campaign. Here is a thoughtful piece from Dave Winer who quotes Doc Searles. As people become more sophisticated and turned off by mindless advertising, advertisers are searching for more ways to insert a message past the viewer's internal firewall. So Google responds to Facebook. Expect an escalation from Microsoft, and so it goes. Once again, I don't mind informative ads for things I might be interested in, but the flood of mindless and obnoxious stuff just turns me off.
My son was just hired by Continental Airlines (he's been flying for Express Jet Airlines dba Continental Express). He also interviewed at Southwest. On a recent trip I was chatting with the First Officer on my American Airlines flight (before boarding, of course). He was envious at Derek's opportunity. Said Derek would make captain before him. He also said he has seen signs of weakening at Southwest. Must be so. Here's a Chicago Tribune article about Southwest changing its vaunted seating policy.
Again, thanks to Lifehacker for these tips on maintaining a fitness program -- just in time for me as I hit the winter slump as soccer season winds down.
And, finally, a post from Dave Winer about how conferences suck. I've been playing with ideas for a first Automation World conference. We participate with Packaging World on the Packaging Automation Forum, which has been quite successful. But I'm looking at new ways of doing things. The May 20, 2008 PAF will feature a half-day training session the day before, which I think is a great idea. What would you like to see in a forum? All the ones I attend pack the day full of presentations with the required number of PowerPoint slides. How would you do it to get more audience participation? Or, would you like audience participation?
Therefore the challenge, if you want to have a truly useful conference
that everyone gets something out of, structure it so that everyone has
something to do at all times. Hopefully things that involve other
people or the venue, if not, what's the point of going somewhere to do this stuff?
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