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| that i'm really enjoying justin timberlake's singles? i want to get the album. pitchfork gave it 8 stars out of 10 so i don't feel too foolish. but still, justin timberlake? well, if i'm not above gwen stefani i am not above JT. pop rulezzzz.
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| Hello, do any of you have suggestions as to where to buy an eco-friendly wallet? Mine ripped a hole and I lost a stack of cards, including my drivers license. I am considering any recycled leather wallets or vegan (but not hemp) wallets. Stiffness required.
On other topics, I now have a tan. Judging by the progress, I can still get a few shades darker, which is easy as I will be swimming, cycling, and running outdoors this weekend. I just learned "Chi-running" today in which you extract the essence of Tai-chi into your running technique. I was going fast! But I'm still hurtin' afterward, so I better watch it or else I will be too injured to race.
I've also sat in on a bunch of M&A lawyer-to-lawyer negotiation sessions. Minnie, they are fierce! Lots of fist shaking and table pounding. Figuratively. Seems like the more heated things got, the more complex their sentence structures became.
I also asked for a promotion. It's a little premature, but I thought there would be no harm in asking. So, now I wait.
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| Fulfilling my vision of being an international jet-setter, I am flying to Scandinavia this Sunday for work. Other than the dreadful flight (albeit business class), I really can't wait. Ok, I guess I'm also looking forward to the warm bread rolls in business class, served on white china.
I met up with a high school friend today who is doing film. I am inspired. He is following a dream, and he has a plan and plenty of self confidence. I envision the pursuit of dreams as a path paved with frustration and self-doubt, with periods of stagnation and complacency, but it doesn't have to be (as evidenced by Shawn). First, you need to be focused. How many aspiring writer-directors end up frustrated and taking easier jobs like props assistant, then gets promoted to props lead, starts to make a reasonably comfortable life, gets old? It's the same handcuffs as in the business path. You exchange your dreams for more structure, money, and marginal validation. In addition to focus, it helps tremendously to have skills of persuasion. Not everyone is a Pi3rre (founder of eB@y) who just programs a website and has it take off on its own. It helps to be like a L@rry or Serg3i who gets rejected by multiple VC firms but manages to persuade one of them to invest and the rest is history.
Persuasion is one of the best skills to have (in addition to basic survival skills like food scavenging), though I'm trying to think how it is exercised in the context of activism of any kind. The basics of persuasion is you convince the other party that they have something to gain by doing what you suggest they do, or believing what you want them to believe, and I can see clear examples in business (prospect of money) and politics (favor exchanges, prospects of getting rules / legislatures relevant to you passed), but how do you use persuasion to deal with ignorance, indifference, and hate? I think outrage and doing outlandish things to get attention (PETA activists) are common, but in general non-angry people don't like listening to angry people. There must be a better way to play the game.
Blip on triathlon: Eating like a mofo and feeling pretty darn great.
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