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Ok, remember that chart from a couple hours ago? Well I made it accurate using the Google Charts API. I think it’s even more telling…
What is this, some sort of sharia math?
Before and After
Buildings in Manhattan being cleaned after decades of building up street pollution.
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On Mobile Lifestyling
The creative class has always had the advantage of deciding where, when and how to work. Artists, writers and painters need both solitude and social interaction to deliver the what. They need ebb and flow.
The rest of us have had the disadvantage of being locked into a white or blue collar factory anywhere between 40 and 80 hours a week. Historically the what has driven the where, when and how.
But thankfully the world is changing and more people can now enjoy the mobile lifestyle of the bohemian artist thanks to technology, global competition for talent and evolving values.
The argument that a mobile work-life is a privileged that needs to be earned will soon be replaced by it’s own necessity. Focusing solely on the what - the delivery of great quality and the right solutions - increases productivity, happiness and results.
When people get to work on fun projects that makes a difference without adult corporate supervision and the need for physical check-ins and monitoring the result always turns out to be 100x better and faster. Always.
The key to staying competitive in the idea-driven creativity economy is to attract the right talent, work on important projects and then clear all decks from roadblocks, everything from internal bureaucracy to slow office life.
It sounds a little like managing artists, doesn’t it!
#19-24 out of 101 Books
I’m still behind on my New Year’s resolution but am catching up fast thanks to all my travels:
I’m still behind but hoping my travels this fall - to London, New York, Los Angeles, Nice, Rome and Johannesburg - will enable me to meet my goal of 101 books in 2010.
I kind of feel like God dropped a giant sandbag on my head.
GLENN BECK, in a surprise address to Freedom Works, a Tea Party umbrella group, on Friday night.
Dear God: next time, throw it harder, and make it a bigger fucking bag.
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Another awesome day in California. Cleaning out my todo-list while I’m waiting for the sun to explode over our roof top. Latte in hand.
trey:
In case you needed another reason to want a Porsche 914.
If Andreessen is raising money now, does that mean he sees trouble down the road — a double-dip recession, or a collapse in the venture-capital market? That might be a question his investors should ask.
sigh
“The best thing in life is free
But you can give it to the birds an’ bees
I need some money, Need some money. Oh yeah, what I want”
Andreessen Horowitz hitting up investors for a cool $650 million: report | VentureBeat (via david-noel)
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On Aging
Today I’m one day older than yesterday but still the youngest I’ll ever be. I’m also a whole year older than last year this time when I was the youngest I’d ever been.
So one can argue - not only thanks to my awesome Nordic genes sans fertile hair growth - that I’m not aging at all. I’ll always be the youngest I’ll ever be. Everyday.
At least I feel much younger then last year when I replaced my original hip with an awesome bionic titanium hip. Heck, I feel decades younger thanks to my iHip.
And as Mark Twain said: “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
But so many people seem to mind. Looking young has become much more important than feeling great. As a society we fret over it while we should be more worried about losing our creativity, curiosity and playfulness.
Life is only linear if you’d like it to be. It can be stochastic, random, crazy, volatile, ever-changing, surprising and awesome.
It’s simple: attention and energy matters more than time and space. Until it doesn’t and then it’s over. We are all blips in an ever evolving galaxy. Hard to really care about something that will happen with or without human intervention.
I live by Seneca’s wise advice: friends, freedom and thought. The rest is just noise in an universe filled with wonderful music.
PS. To Robert Plant who’s birthday I share with a lot of other amazing peeps.
Made an amazing lunch salad with lightly sauteed kale, bacon and red onions. Peppar and salt; light drizzle of local olive oil on top of the goat cheese. Accompanied by a glas of Tempranillo. Delish and the perfect finish to a great morning. Took 5 minutes.
All the evidence seems to be pointing in the direction that we are working too much. In fact, we’re happy if we work less. We are spending too much time on work and too little time with friends and family.
Caring for Your Introvert
Such a deliciously thoughtful article. Introverts and extroverts. Idea and people persons. I’m personally never out of ideas but find myself being out of words quite often. Then I need to find solitude so my mind can wander back to ideas again.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Real yoghurt mixed with different berries. My breakfast for the next week. Divine.
Our ‘Age of Anxiety’ is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools - with yesterday’s concepts.
