It’s a time of unprecedented change. Our houses and careers aren’t sources of security anymore. The traditional job, for a lot of us, and for a lot of people in the future, is a dinosaur. And if you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in starting, growing, or saving your business, or one of several, and [...]
The 3 Biggest Cultural Changes that Affect Your Business Development, Marketing, and Work Culture
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What Successful Democratic Movements and Healthy Businesses Have in Common
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Occupy (Wall Street) movement is as much about the destruction of the job market as anything and, as such, has the earmarks of a workers movement – perhaps less obvious because so much of the US is out of work. In essence, the Occupy movement is a strike called against the culture as it [...]
Why Coworking Will Free You From Hassles to Get Your Work Done
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you’re not aware of coworking, makerspaces, hackerspaces, etc. – these are collaborative coops that provide you space to work in an environment where other people are also working in a creative and independent way. The coop part of it gets you a chair, deskspace or table space, wifi internet, lights, electricity, a bathroom, and [...]
Vocation versus Fate, Magic, and Heredity
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Watching the latest revision of Robin Hood, one is invited to disgust with the way Americans keep consuming stories that alleviate the responsibility to innovate, to create, to contribute – to be extraordinary. Latent in it one finds work without significance, for the vast majority of people – just contented drudgery relieved by dancing, screwing, [...]
Say No to a Bailout for the Jobless — Playing Robin Hood Will Enrich Government – not Job Seekers
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the pseudo issues that we’re instructed to be talking about now is whether to tax capital gains – and now everyone is quoting Warren Buffet. Partly, this relies on the average person not understanding how corporate taxes work vs. personal taxes – something Buffet understands very well. But when you and I are [...]
The meaning of work
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“All work is an act of philosophy.” – Ayn Rand
Baby Contractors and the Neighbor Kid Who Mows Your Lawn
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’m not going to say that I’m in favor of not giving kids any money, or shelling out a measely allowance, but I think fewer kids than ever are learning to work for money at an early age – that too many kids are getting 100% of their needs met by asking parents for cash. [...]
Obessive Possessiveness – A Eulogy for Stuff after a Garage Sale
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I had a garage sale recently, designed to reduce possessions to only those things we need and are using. It was wildly effective, and what I didn’t sell, I donated. The result is an empty garage and a home that finally echoes again, and feels big. When I sell things, I interact a lot – [...]
Current Schooling Leads to Yesterday’s Work
September 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I really like it when someone correctly identifies the nexus between work and schooling. We spend all this effort talking about how the world of work has become unacceptable, as we’ve conceived it, but very little on the fact that traditional schooling is the mechanism for creating precisely this world of work, and for conditioning [...]
Having Clients in Order to Work
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build… Those who want me will come to me.” – Howard Roark It’s so easy to look at a business and think it’s primary purpose is to gather clientelle. And there are plenty of businesses like that [...]
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