I’m reading Made to Stick. The timing is excellent….

We need to make information simple.

We need to listen and organize and purge.

We need to be patient with those around us who adapt at different rates.

We need to revisit our approach.

I just watched this “Web 2.0″ video again.  It is information overload.  Yet, it also is about managing external perception.  It is about social networking and Twitter and blogs and hyperlinks and sharing information.  (It’s also linked with several other FAQ related videos, right here on this blog.)

The Machine is Us/ing Us

We need to slow down.  We do not need to speed up.

We need to stop multi-tasking.  We need to say no.

We need to say less, spend more time being the expert, and less time marketing.

I’ve said “we” a lot here.  That’s because “I” think “I” have some ideas that “I” think will help make other people’s lives more enjoyable, more simple, more balanced, more about what “we” want our lives to be about.

Stay tuned!

I’m going back to watching physics lectures.

Am I missing anything?  Is there a batch of reasons why I (or anyone for that matter) might not want that?  The only thing that I can think of is that there may be some sort of profit motive for a certain platform.  Other than that, why would platform restricted be desirable?

I work with SharePoint, a lot.  I like it when it works everywhere.  I don’t like it when it doesn’t.  It’s painful when I try to do training and studying and the web sites I’m using are not available and do not render correctly – (or don’t let me check out and pay for the things I just shopped for… yes, that’s what spurred this post) – because they’re not supported on various platforms (iPhone, Mac, PC, Windows Mobile, TV, DVR, set top box, in car navigation, mall kiosk, seat back touch screens in airplanes and busses, touch screens in the kitchen or on whatever wall I’m near and need a display, etc.).

This isn’t about the technical challenges.  This is about actually desiring versus not desiring to have ubiquitous, platform agnostic living.  Maybe, if we start to think that way, we’ll start to design and build and live that way.  Maybe.  One thing is certain.  If we do not think that way, we will not get there.

[HT: Clint Covington]

Notice my URL… now.

I found this video via this post.

It’s particularly interesting to me because I just had a discussion with a good friend.  That discussion was directly about this topic and how we have different viewpoints and different aspects of this topic in our lives.

I’m listening.

I’m thinking.

dross

patience

quagmire

drivel

adroit

tepid

Today is World Storytelling Day!

Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor – an American efficiency expert.  We share the same bent towards that.  We share the same middle initial.  If he was alive today, he would be 152 years old today.  We don’t share that.

I am still around, and today is my birthday!  I’m 36 today. 

Here’s lookin’ at you, kid!  Cheers!

UPDATE: I think good things are going to happen this year.  To start off, I’m going to add, awesome ways to start 002.

“Ghost Rider, this is Strike. We have unknown aircraft inbound Mustang. Your vector zero-nine-zero for bogey.”

“Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin’, “Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area” ’cause they don’t give a shit. It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn’t them when their number got called, ’cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some kid from Southie takin’ shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ’cause he’ll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin’ play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain’t too long ’til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy’s out of work and he can’t afford to drive, so he’s got to walk to the fuckin’ job interviews, which sucks ’cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he’s starvin’ ’cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they’re servin’ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I’m holdin’ out for somethin’ better. I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.”

Good Will Hunting (1997) – Memorable quotes