If you had to sell your Ferrari within 6 months of getting it, it might have been a bad decision to get it. That’s all I am saying! 
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I love Google Reader. If I was the King of England, I would have considered an en-masse knighthood for the team that integrated Reader with Gears.
That said, any fair analysis of my RSS addiction will show that my usage has tailed-off in an inverse-hockey-stick pattern over the past few months. I suffer from an extreme case “BS Fatigue”; 487 blogs are a lot to keep up with and when most of them are trying to fill you in with the latest and greatest in design inspiration, best practices in strategic planning, game-changing management advice, low-cost ‘lifehacking’, high performance marketing, “web x.0″ to the newest concepts in resource management, your head begins to spin and you can no longer find value in all the information that is pushed in as structured XML.
I had a great conversation over lunch with a friend who equated RSS( and all information attained without having worked for it!) to cheating; he thought all this easy information kept him from having pure experiences anymore, he wants to screw up and then fix things, not do them right the first time, like the guy who did them best. I’m personally more sensible about these things but I see his point: how about not knowing something already?
People who follow Guy Kawasaki on Twitter might relate to this – calling him loud would be rude, but he is in a manner of saying, extremely enthusiastic about telling you everything about everything in the universe. Most of the stuff that Guy and his team tweet about is interesting but the question remains, is it essential?
I’ve decided to conduct a small social experiment: I’m trimming my feeds to topics of non-professional interest and to blogs belonging to personal friends only. I’ll keep it this way for a month and see if I still have cracking stories to tell when we wait for our meetings to start!
I fear my friend might have scarred me for life with his ‘knowledge is cheating’ hypothesis! Do you see his point?!
Confession: I follow Gul Panag (the movie-star?) on Twitter. I don’t know her personally.
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This guy has what you would call, a personality!
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revised: 12/18/09
Suggestions that might help you cheer up someone feeling a little badly at work.
1. Get him a Wall-E toy.
2. Get him to read Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena speech. Chances are he’ll get inspired by it. This passage is laced with caffeine!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue seems like a fun place to be these days. Here’s NBC’s neatly edited behind-the-scenes look at the Obama White House.
The executive offices seemed a little cramped. I do think Rahm could treat Geithner a little better!
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There have been a few bigtime changes in the engine room, let’s just say that ‘Plan B’ is now go!
Details soon!
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My blogging break will continue for a while yet.
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ACL transplant surgeries hurt and that is just the way it is.
In hindsight, the quick single in that Project Management vs. IT Servces cricket match seems like a silly idea.
A year ago the key takeaways from my ‘prep’ talk at the surgeon’s office were not encouraging:
- The ACL does not forgive!
- A three hour surgery with some bespoke tunneling between my femur and the tibia, an autograft transplant and a bunch of resistance screws to hold everything together, should do it!
- I’ll be walking in four months, playing squash again, next year.
Happy to report that I’m walking now, mostly without pain.
My beef with ACL transplant surgery: I still can’t play squash. And, the darned metal detectors have started beeping near my knee!!! :-)
It will be a quiet celebration; a cake, a candle and some painkillers!
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The photoblog post for 26/03/2009 is now up, here!
Taken at Shalom, New Delhi. (Shalom is Peace in Hebrew)
Thanks guys for some wonderful messages on the posts yesterday, I’m still going through my email and will write to all of you individually
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When you meet someone, you need to have a super power. If you don’t, you’re just another handshake. Don’t say, “Hi, I’m Don, I’m from Cleveland.” Instead, try, “Hi, I’m Don, I tell stories that spread.” It’s not about touting yourself or coming on too strong. It’s about making the introduction meaningful. If I don’t know your superpower, then I don’t know how you can help me (or I can help you).
via Seth’s
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