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Today's interesting Contrarian idea of the day:Fast Company | If It's Urgent, Ignore It
"Smart organizations ignore the urgent. Smart organizations understand that important issues are the ones to deal with. If you focus on the important stuff, the urgent will take care of itself."
CIO magazine is running an AT&T wireless autopsy
Software catastrophies are always entertaining. It is amazing how dependant we are on software.
If you have a high speed interenet connection, I would highly recomend you buy a router... Having a router elimiates a sizable portion of the common security risks people can exploit to highjack or pillage your computer.
I have recomended this practice for quite some time, but this article at broadbandreports.com gives an idea when a router is not enough.
I have been enjoying reading Mark Cuban's Blog lately. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and made a substantial amount of money in the internet boom.
His Blog is very straight-shooting, and brings up points that most people overlook. Anyway I found his piece about how the stock market works today quite interesting. Read it!
Okay, another radical management method:Fast Company | Here's a Radical Idea - Tell the Truth!
Funny how all of the Radical ways to manage your company and your career can be found in the bible.
Perhaps we will have a steep rise in entrepenuership in the next few years. This is a very interesting article: USATODAY.com - Firms will pay when workers make escape
I really enjoy reading about people who break away from the norm and live differently than everyone else. This Roundhouse is a good example. I love the idea of being self sufficient, and living off the land. I am a big fan of Home Power magazine.
The reason that I am so drawn to these folks is because of the creativity that they demonstrate in living their lives. They ignore the fact that all of the convieniences are readily available at the local hardware store, and build a solution to life's simplest problems from scratch.
Often by ignoring the socially accepted norm, they find a solution that is quite a bit better than what you can buy of the hardware store shelf.
Saturday, I went down to Pullman to visit the new TKE colony that is starting up there. They seem like a good group of young men. Rebuilding a fraternity is very hard work, but the impact that their work will have on young men for generations to come are pretty profound.
I find it quite interesting to work with college communities. The college world ends after 4-9 years. Each student has the opportunity to leave a legacy within that short window of time, much as we all have the opportune to leave a legacy over the course of our life here in the 'real' world. It seems that the accelerated timeline makes the consequences of our decisions more profound. The consequences of or decisions in college seem to play out in an accelerated fashion compared to the rest of or our life decisions. We are exposed to every temptation in college, and either resist or we don't. Reputations are established quickly, We learn to swim or we sink. Our successes and failures in the college world shape the way that we make decisions for the rest of our life.
Anyway, It is interesting too look back at my college days, think about who influenced me back then, and what impact they had on the rest of my life. It is also interesting to wonder what impact I had on other classmate's lives over the course of time that I spent in college. We are so impressionable that at that point of our life that even when we disagree with somebody, our disagreement can form part of our identity for the rest of our lives. Weird.
We got to go to the hospital today! Julia got shoved off of the slide at Riverfront park and bonked her face on the slide rail. Then fell off of the slide and hit the ground. Andee thought she was okay, but then she got the dazed and confused look that Wiley Cayote always had on the Roadrunner show.
Of course by the time she got checked into the ER, she was all healed up. The nice thing is that we have spent so much time at the hospital with our kids that it doesn't seem too foreign to us. My parking spot always seems to be open in the parking garage.
Set a record at work last month. Took 756 calls (That is a lot).
I am cutting down on my sugar intake. I was drinking 3-4 12 oz cans of Dr. Pepper along with a 32-44 oz pop with my lunch. I figure that is most of the reason I am fat. Now I am limiting myself to 24 oz per day . Perhaps someday I will ween myself completely.