Do you ever get lost in the World Wide Web? Early Saturday morning before going shopping you decide to find a recipe for breakfast soufflé and the next thing you know you’ve visited 37 sites and watched half a dozen TED videos, and now it is past lunchtime and you’re starving and so you searchContinue reading “Treat the Whole Wide World like the World Wide Web”
Category Archives: Philosophy of Life
To get a job, write your story instead of a resume
by Brooke Allen I am 61 years old and I have been doing paid work since I was 16. I’ve been a grocery clerk, camp counselor, film projectionist, sound man, light man, cameraman, freight loader, computer programmer, teacher, operations research analyst, manager, salesman, writer, consultant, and for the last 30 years I’ve been a securitiesContinue reading “To get a job, write your story instead of a resume”
Want passion? Look for something that makes you angry.
Whenever I speak at colleges I begin by asking, “Why are you here?” This catches the students off guard and after batting the question around for a bit someone says, “To find my passion.” The rest agree and they imagine they are done with the topic. But I am not done with them. I ask them toContinue reading “Want passion? Look for something that makes you angry.”
How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire.
Ask yourself this question, “What do employers owe the people they do not hire?” I asked myself that question more than a decade ago and it changed my life forever. On Sunday, January 18, 2004, I ran a help-wanted ad in the New York Times that read in its entirety, “Programmer – Will train, enjoyment ofContinue reading “How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire.”
URGENT: Help Make Work More Fun
Over Super Bowl Weekend (Feb 1-2) some friends and I will be attending an Education Start-UP Weekend to develop tools that will help people bring more fun to work. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Here is how you can help us: 1) Tell us your stories: How did you or someone you know make an onerous taskContinue reading “URGENT: Help Make Work More Fun”
What questions should we ask ourselves?
Researchers have shown that it if you want to do something it is better to ask yourself questions rather than to tell yourself things. Ask, don’t tell by Brooke Allen If you want to exercise today then it is not a good idea to get up in the morning and say, “I will exercise today.”Continue reading “What questions should we ask ourselves?”
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