The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard ShawMan and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
Emerging is when you use a platform to come into your own. Merging is when you sacrifice who you are to become part of something else.
Merging is what the system wants from you. To give up your dreams and your identity to further the goals of the system. Managers push for employees to merge into the organization.
Emerging is what a platform and support and leadership allow you to do. Emerging is what we need from you.
-- Seth Godin
We think we want a lot of choices, but really we want freedom. There’s a difference, and the overwhelming number of choices in our lives these days leads to confusion, paralysis, and unhappiness.
Scarcity choices can be seen as a bad thing, but I see it as liberating. I’m not saying we should have no choices, but fewer is better.
Try narrowing down your choices, in as many ways as you dare. Watch fewer TV shows by picking just three you watch every week. Pick just one book and read that until you’re done. Have a to-do list that’s only three items long each day. Make a weekly menu that only has two or three meals you cook in big batches, and eat those all week. You might worry that you’re making the wrong choices — you’re not.
There are no wrong choices, there’s only the fear of making the wrong choices.
I find limiting my choices to be an opportunity to let go of the worries about making the wrong choices, and to focus on enjoying the choices I do make.
Leo Babauta @ http://zenhabits.net/scarce/#more-8603
Since the modern, scientifically conceived corporation was invented in the early half of the twentieth century, creativity has been sacrificed in favor of forwarding the interests of the “team player.”
Fair enough. There was more money in doing it that way; that’s why they did it.
There’s only one problem. Team players are not very good at creating value on their own. They are not autonomous; they need a team in order to exist.
So now corporations are awash with nonautonomous thinkers.
Creating an economically viable entity where lack of original thought is handsomely rewarded creates a rich, fertile environment for parasites to breed.
And that’s exactly what’s been happening. So now we have millions upon millions of human tapeworms thriving in the Western world, making love to their PowerPoint presentations, feasting on the creativity of others.
-- Hugh MacLeod @ Ignore Everybody
Our parents and grandparents spent their “Cognitive Surplus” watching television. That’s a thing of the past… a historical accident of the old factory-worker age meeting the modern mass-media age. Of course it wouldn’t last forever. We humans as a species were designed to compete, not to sit around on our asses.-- Hugh Macleod @ http://gapingvoid.com/ep/
"Frankly, it beats the hell out of commuting every morning to the corporate glass box in the big city, [...] just so I could make enough money to help me forget that I have to commute every morning to the corporate glass box in the big city."-- Hugh Macleod @ http://gapingvoid.com/ep/
If you're looking for 'how', if you're looking for a map, for a way to industrialize the new era, you've totally missed the point and you will end up disappointed. The nature of the last era was that repetition and management of results increased profits. The nature of this one is the opposite: if someone can tell you precisely what to do, it's too late. Art and novelty and innovation cannot be reliably and successfully industrialized.
-- Seth Godin @ Linchpin (best book ever)
If you’re a programmer today and you’re not employed, you’re not looking or you’re not doing the right things:(A) get involved in open source development(B) learn a development environment that’s hot right now.-- @dhh in Episode #26 of the 37signals Podcast
Every project worth doing comes with constraints. Our natural inclination is to fight them....There's a useful alternative: embrace the constraints you've been given. Use them as assets, as an opportunity to be the one who solved the problem. Once you can thrive in a world filled with constraints, it's ever easier to do well when those constraints are loosened.-- Seth Godin
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content because they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten how it’s done.
-- rands
"Sempre trabalhe como se um novo membro pudesse entrar no projeto a qualquer instante.
O que você prefere?
Sentir orgulho e mostrar código de qualidade ou ter que dar desculpas para cada trecho de código em que o novato puser as mãos?
A qualidade não é negociável."- zehzinho
