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November 22, 2002
End of the week
Well it's the end of the week. Things have been alright, I've recovered from some serious drain that happened last week. Still pretty busy at work. Started a Human Resources Management class and Cluetrain immediately started to come to mind. In particular, the way companies treat their employees.
If any of you are unfamiliar with Cluetrain, go check out the cluetrain manifesto.
Here's item 11 from the manifesto: People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. So much for corporate rhetoric about adding value to commoditized products.
One of the best things I think Cluetrain does is help people realize that you can't BS forever. In fact people/companies etc who don't BS will have the upper hand in everything because human's desire genuine interaction, not fluffed-PR-fake-warm-fuzzy speak.
During the evenings, I either listen to music in the bedroom, work on the computer and listen to trance or just plain work. The trance music is definately relaxing and not distracting. I love listening to Ani Difranco, Dave Matthews, Linkin Park, or Thai rock music but it's not something to listen to if you have to concentrate on something else.
Last night in class we did some pretty interesting things. If you want to try one of them, take a piece of paper and draw on it a circle, triangle and 2 squares. Divide the circle in half, divide the triangle into 3 equal pieces, divide the first square into four equal pieces. Now on the last square, split it into 5 parts.
If you want to see something interesting, stop here and go do the exercise. When you're done come back.
Ok well if you did or didn't do it, what I noticed is that on the last square, we tend to pause and scratch our heads. The reason is because we're using to things that revolve around the center of something and the simple lesson is: Keep an open mind, you never know what situations you'll encounter on a given day which can easily be solved just as long as you keep an open mind.
Posted by beamz at November 22, 2002 12:57 PM