The activity of our souls is all-consuming, and the work of our hands comes from that source, like fire from a furnace. It’s like picking up the Wall Street Journal – it’s got some of everything, because everything matters. The full-length caveman video for Three Doors Down: “Let Me Be Myself” was designated the offical [...]
1-Click Refurbish Your Business PC
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As we talked about in an earlier post, you can’t afford technology slow-downs (let alone melt-downs) with the equipment you use for work. There are three tools that are superb for keeping it lean, mean, and screaming faster than the day you bought it. What all of these do is clean your registry which, if [...]
Backing up in a Blaze of Boring
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve tried nearly all of them, and settled on Backblaze. Jungle Drive: I found it impossible to set up. Too many separate logins and setting up the connection between the software and the storage servers, albeit rock solid amazon servers, threw several hurdles at me. After a couple of hours, including forum entries, I gave [...]
Today Only: Business Phone Under $25 – SIM ready – No Contract
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve reviewed this phone before, and now it’s available cheaper than ever (information courtesy of edealinfo.com): Motorola F3 Slim Unlocked GSM Basic Phone » only $23.99 One Day Only J&R is carrying this Unlocked Cell Phone for $23.99 This item receives Free Shipping Final Price: $23.99 + Free Shipping
Technology: The Sword between Personal and Corporate Life
November 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The contrast is startling. Average of 5mb/sec internet connections in the US – average of 60mb/sec in Japan [source] for about $25/month. South Korea, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Portugal… basically most countries that might deserve the term “wired” have faster, better internet.The US, birthplace of the personal computer and the internet, now ranks 28th in [...]
Freedom Wears a Watchcap
November 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What is home-worker fashion? One of the things I’m curious about, for those of you who work from home all or part of the time is: what do you wear for working? Pajamas? Overalls? Tuxedo? A speedo? Image via Wikipedia One of the wonderful things about working from home is that you can eat what [...]
Sell more than you save
November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Rule of Work: If you must choose, sell more rather than save more. Both are good, but it’s a matter of priorities. As I contemplate “quitting the day job” (OK, so I’m not quitting – the project is at completion and I’ve finished – but I’m referring to not replacing it with another one), I [...]
The Unseen Light
November 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
You know, the agonizing thing about knowing you can build a business, knowing you have the courage, the intelligence, the talent, is not having the right idea. Don’t get me wrong, I have a business, and it’s the right idea, and it has been, for where I was, where I am, and for a while [...]
Designated Theme Video
November 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
[This video] has been chosen as the official theme video of the Rules of Work blog. Steve Pruneau added the following: It taps into everything you ever thought, felt and said about not “fitting in” when employed by a company. This video makes me think about… People who are smart but don’t do well in a [...]
Fear, Loathing, Escaping the Cube
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So when I first started building my business, I took a ‘day’ job. It was partly fear. It was. It’s hard to turn down a steady paycheck, healthcare, and the lascivious knowledge that somehow society supports your decision, where they seem to be bewildered by people who break away from corporate life. It wasn’t a [...]
Social Compact for Work Changes
November 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Frankly, I find it hard to think of a recession only in terms of the numbers that matter to the people that got us into one. It’s still a recession, or worse (we don’t like the word depression), if people are hunting for jobs for 16months, qualified people with degrees are still losing their houses [...]
Contractors vs. Corporations
November 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The trend is corporations increasingly substituting contractors for full time employees. Besides not having to pay benefits, there is no unemployment security, fewer rights (e.g. medical Leave of Absence), and diminished job security. Use them and drop them – that’s the new mantra. It’s not just the economy, either, as though it’s coming back. There’s [...]
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