You Can’t Do Your Job if You Don’t Sleep – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.
I’m going to be more productive today. I’m taking a nap.
Thought For Today
Steven Pressfield – The Lunch Pail Manifesto
The Lunch Pail Manifesto
- We must find the work that brings our lives meaning.
- We must strive to make our work purposeful, truthful, and authentic, a pure offering to our Muse and fellow human beings.
- We must wage a lifelong war with Resistance and accept that instant gratification is an oxymoron.
- We must not speak of our work with false modesty or braggadocio.
- We must not debase our work for short term gain nor elevate it above its rightful station to inflate our ego.
- We must not covet the fruits of our work, or the fruits of others’ work.
- We must respect others’ work and offer aid to fellow professional laborers.
- We must accept that our work will never be perfect.
- We must accept that our work will never be without merit.
- We must accept that our work will never cease.
via Standing 8 Count | Black Irish Books | Get In the Ring!.
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis – Real World Deflation Defined
Neither money supply nor the CPI can adequately explain interest rates, housing prices, lack of jobs, and numerous other real-world phenomena. In the real-world, in a credit-based economy, it is credit that matters.
Good point!
Go Do – How Hard Can It Be?
Change This – Go Do: How Hard Can It Be?.
If you work hard and love what you do you will find success. Common sense tells us we all become pretty skilled at things we love to do. Conversely, you will never get good at things you hate to do.
Hard work alone is not a guarantee of success. The lack of hard work guarantees failure.
Failure leads to success. You must fail to learn how to succeed.
Do or not do. There is no try.
Yoda
Your WTF moment for the day. You have to read the whole post. Priceless.
I often wonder why, when so many TV shows and movies are made here in Hollywood North, more celebrities don’t just buy houses and live here? Say you were a fairly affluent star and had around $3-3.5 million to spend on a place to crash…
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Tracking the Trackers – Video on TED.com
As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil — personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it’s your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life.
via Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers | Video on TED.com.
George Orwell was right.
What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life – HBR
A few years ago, DisneyWorld executives were wondering what most captured the attention of toddlers and infants at their theme park and hotels in Orlando, Florida. So they hired me and a cultural anthropologist to observe them as they passed by all the costumed cast members, animated creatures, twirling rides, sweet-smelling snacks, and colorful toys. But after a couple of hours of close observation, we realized that what most captured the young children’s attention wasn’t Disney-conjured magic. Instead it was their parents’ cell phones, especially when the parents were using them.
via What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life – Kare Anderson – Harvard Business Review.
How many people are not really where they are but someplace else?
How to Be Happier at Work – Start Something!
Start something. More specifically, start something outside of work.
Before you get mad at me take note of where this article comes from. Harvard Business Review Blog Network is the source of this article. This article reminds me of what I did several years ago. I started something.
When I started something I had no clue what it was I started. What I thought I started was not what I am doing today. In other words, my original plan failed but ultimately my little business succeeded.
Take a risk. Start something!
What are you avoiding doing that you know needs to be done?” We seem to have a talent for burying the truth, covering it up, distracting ourselves from it… When was the last time you took a risk in the direction of your dance?
Laurie Beth Jones
Fugu or Not to Fugu?
Tetrodotoxin poisoning
- Numbness around the mouth followed by paralysis and death by respiratory failure – the victim remaining conscious throughout
- First recorded case found in the logs of Captain Cook in 1774, after crew members ate the fish
- Tetrodotoxin is named after the Tetraodontiformes order of fish, which includes blowfish
- It is also found in blue-ringed octopuses, some toads, newts and other animals
via BBC News – Dicing death: The fish more poisonous than cyanide.
I refuse to eat sushi in Oklahoma. I doubt I’ll ever eat Fugu.
One of the scariest charts I’ve seen.
This is what you get when a society allows financial oligarchs to take over the economy and rape and pillage at will with zero repercussions.
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