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#4 - Connect!: A Guide to a New Way of Working
I don’t remember how I found Connect!: A Guide to a New Way of Working by Anne Truitt Zelenka on Amazon.com but the combination of the $2.03 price tag (no longer available) and it being a Web Worker Daily production made me interested. I’ve for the past 20 years been thinking, practising and experimenting with new ways of working thanks to emerging technology.
In 1995 I sent the first SMS on top of a mountain and later that year travelled across Europe working from London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan and other wonderful cities. Nokia had just released their first PCMCIA card (i.e. a 9,600 baud mobile modem) that I just had to try out. Today’s Edge network is about 40 times faster than my old modem just as a comparison. If that doesn’t impress, just think about that Internet (20MM worldwide) and cellphone usage was considered early, early adoption. Hell, it was even before the majority of the world had ever heard of the web.
Anywho, the book is really good. I expected the usual mobile work / telecommuting utopia / drivel but these guys have done their homework. The essential premise is that by leveraging the web the way you work can and will change - for the better. The difference between corporate busy work and independent bursty work rings very true. But it’s also about working smarter not harder, focus on quality and not quantity, and exploding your career.
It’s a great practical and philosophical guide to the future of work!
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- perhakansson
- date:
- Jan 29, 2010 (a Friday)
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- 12:27:00 (1 month ago)
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