Seth Godin is quickly becoming our favorite blogger. He just posted about taking control of your career and life in a short and direct post.
“The alternative is to create a job where you create forward motion, where you do things to the job, not the other way around.”
Seth Godin makes a strong point in this latest blog posting.
“The goal shouldn’t be to have a lot of people to yell at, the goal probably should be to have a lot of people who choose to listen. Don’t need a bullhorn for that.”
I have found a great essay on what a Start Up looks like. I know this year many people’s goal is to start their own company in some way. This is a fantastic starting point on the adventure.
“I didn’t realize I would spend almost every waking moment either working or thinking about our startup. You enter a whole different way of life when it’s your company vs. working for someone else’s company.”
I have an office that is 15 minutes away from my home. I have been debating keeping it because I am on the road and not in the office but several times a month. So I have taken a month to test out being at home. Most of the time it is great and convenient. There are drawbacks to the home office. Today as I rolled out of bed at 9:15 am I couldn’t help but feel plagued by guilt. I realize that even when I worked in a cubicle I would usually not start working until then anyway. I just feel like I should always be working when I am home. I just wanted to start a pro’s and con’s list for having a home office.
Con’s:
1. Less motivation in the morning to get started.
2. Unending guilt to always be working.
3. Less professional dress. I do not have to get dressed up so why should I is my argument?
4. Errands always get in the way. It is easy to make cleaning up a must do chore instead of the phone calls I need to make.
5. Personal and Business life have no boundaries. I was digging through personal tax documents this morning when I should have been working.
6. No sunlight. This is just my office, but I am in the basement and there is no sunlight, this is a long way from the corner office!
Gawker had a reported on the facebook and the privacy issues.
Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we’re blessed with pics of the social network’s young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking plastered.
So at least this whole privacy scandal hasn’t been for naught.
As a result of it, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from sharing very little of his personal Facebook content with the public to sharing a whole lot, True/Slant’s Kashmir Hill has noticed. Where the public could see just one photo of the Facebook co-founder in October, strangers now have access to a cache of 290 shots, including snaps uploaded by Zuckerberg and those uploaded by people who have tagged him in their pics.
This opening may be a result of Facebook’s new default settings; or could be a result of Zuckerberg trying to reverse the PR debacle of the new privacy system by opening up the content himself; or could be a combination of both. In any case, it springs one way or another from the privacy controversy. And as dogged but often frustrated chroniclers of Zuckerberg’s personal side, we’re thrilled. We just knew this new system would be a boon to gossips like ourselves.
We’ve looked at all 290 pics of Zuckerberg, here are our favorites:
After reading an article about a woman in Kansas being ticketed for prostitution on craigslist this is an interesting article about the background of the company. There is never a squeaky clean back story it seems.
One of our favorite Entrepreneur Bloggers, Dr. Jeff Cornwall, has posted this depressing information about optimism among entrepreneurs. We just came from a dinner where we were talking with a business coach, who had previously been in Investment Banking. He seemed to think that optimism was going too. Maybe we should start calling this beast what it is, a Depression.
Somewhere in the last decade we passed into a world of Free, where content is free. Music was the first intellectual property to become a free space, and has been trying to find its way back sense. I used to justify my illegal downloads, but they are just that illegal. Just like the movies and cough cough other things I downloaded. Somewhere we were given content for free. Newspapers are now in a battle just to keep alive. Why are they not charging? Good content should not be free just like my subway ride is never free.
This world of free is exciting and new and boundaries have not been set, but just like the gold rush there will be rules and restrictions the question is who is going to write them?
Somewhere in the world the corporation has lost. Maybe that would be the same one that rewarded the top executives and no the people who build the company everyday. They started to look at only the bottom line. Somewhere in the haze the individual has emerged. Not the individual but the branded individual. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube has created a new kind of corporation, You!
These new brands are growing and striving and taking over older and stronger corporations, but at what cost? At the cost of the family? The brand like a corporation is good until it goes bad. The individual is not a brand, and not something that can be bought or sold. The individual can help something grow and influence decisions, but it is not a brand. Just ask Tiger Woods
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