Guess what: I’m not a mind reader. I have no idea what you’re thinking, and if you don’t tell me, I won’t know what you want. I’m not talking about relationships, here. I’m talking about life. Take business: in business, we have contracts, and these contracts outline the commitments of both parties. Okay, fine… But [...]
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“It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody.” – Bob Dylan You know when you get that request from your boss or a client, and you’re all like “What the f*ck? Really, dude? You need/want me to do that? Are you f*cking retarded?” Well, guess [...]
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So I’m leaving NVI. I’ve been there about 2 years and have had a really good time, but it’s time to move on. No shit, the company has been great to me. The culture there is really down-to-earth and void of a lot of the bullshit office politics you find in so many place. My [...]
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There’s this saying that came out of Second-wave feminism that “the personal is political.” Personally, I’ve never agreed with it, if only because I see politics as an exercise in the collective well-being. I mean, yes, we live in a liberal democracy where individual rights are supposed to be job #1. But politics is about [...]
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Maybe you should stop being so passive-aggressive. Maybe you should stop blowing smoke out of your ass. Maybe you should stop beating around the bush and just tell people what you really think. Maybe you should have the courage of your convictions. Maybe you start calling bullshit on whatever looks and quacks like bullshit. Maybe [...]
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A couple years ago, when I was invited to speak at Nokia OpenLab, I met a guy named Jari Pasanen. He was a VP at Nokia and he delivered the opening keynote. Less than a minute into his keynote, he expressed his gratitude to Nokia for letting him be himself and still climb the ladder. [...]
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Doesn’t saving the world strike you as an odd concept? I mean, there are no super-villains out there that are bent on world destruction, like there are in comic books or James Bond movies. Of course, there are all kinds of groups and organizations we see as threatening the world. During the Cold War it [...]
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I’m not a big guy, but I’m not a small one either. I’m 6’0″ and weigh in somewhere around 175lbs. If I was a boxer, that would make me light heavyweight. As I said: not big, but exactly small. I am big enough that I’ve managed to avoid trouble most of my life. Alexa Clark [...]
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