Maxing out your love-growth-cash triangle

"Get it all" is a nice/noble/useful/cool sentiment, but I think this usage overloads an established metaphor.

The whole point of the triangular metaphor (as a visualisation) is to communicate a compromise situation - e.g. I'm working on a project, you can have Quality, Cost, Time as dimensions - you can't max out one without compromising another.

It's more important to do what is right then what you love. Sometimes they're one in the same.

This is a brilliant way to visualise how much you're getting out of a job vs. another.

Which begs the question... what else can be brilliantly visualised using radar charts like this?

Reminds me of the TOP model: Talent - Organizational Needs - Passion.

While growth - cash - love model helps decide self picked projects, TOP advises employer - employee equilibrium in assigning resources to projects.

At any point of time an employer has to ensure that at least 2 of these are valid in a resource assignment for any task/project.

is this only newsworthy because of the pretty charts?

I was just thinking about the same thing, although my attributes were: Time, Money, Passion (the things which a job should reward you with / what you will invest in a job).

2 out of 3 is what you should be aiming for.

Really like that guy's blog design. The yellow up at the top is slick.

nice post - deep thoughts, but presented in a simple format