Same thing here, so maybe my 2 cents can help;
Make three broad stages for every project (research & design, implementation, knowledge transfer & communication) and then undertake each phase as one project with its own challenges; that way I fool myself into finishing it.
In a "normal" situation then, youll get that someone whos always wanted the job as the first pick to fill it, wich makes the randomnized promotions all that much desirable.
Also, the stickness of the promotion in your comment, sounds pretty random too.
In the end, the proposition of "... using random processes to mitigate the pathological effects of deterministic models is extremely solid..." seems to hold.
What i wanted to know more about is (and i do now thanks to you): what does someone can sell, what does a business needs so bad that it reaches an outsider and pays him to get.
Also interesting, your take on the "consulting ladder", when i think about doing consulting, i try to find what could i offer, but i wasnt seeing it as a process to find your place.
Thanks a lot Daniel, as usual i got to learn something of what you say.
Very dense, the kind of book that a book geek writes.
When i read The DaVinci Code years later, it feeled like a very decaffeinated (really "de-lots of things") version of Foucaults Pendulum. It also feels like it spawned this sort of genre of history-mystery-conspiracy-airport-and-beach-novel.
What you mean by high-end? im asking because im looking into consulting as a career option, and want to know what people's doing.
Any hindsight will be appreciated.
Borges its great, i find his tales super-concentrated: one tale mentions people or stories that can spawn hundreds of other tales or biographies, and that leaves me wishing to read more of him to see if that story is told somewhere else.
I will. I took GEB and leave it 200 pages from the end, it is great but i keep feeling im not getting something. Im starting over now. And "le ton..." would be next.
These sporadic hn memes put a half-a-smile in me face.
The almost abscence of jokes its great for the noise ratio, but these outbreaks are great fun.
Thanks guys.
When my little girl was about 8 months old, she got her first baby doll (she only had fur animals) and her reaction was impresive: she hughed it, kissed it and nursed it.
I used to think we're born a blank slate until I saw that.
I listen to podcasts, Humanities courses found in TunesU, or French lessons also via podcast, depending on my mood.
Search for older threads here, theres great recommendations there;
A couple from my ipod: Hardcore History, The History of Rome, Philosophy Bites, French Cafe.
I've been eating mostly "primal" for a year; im down one pant size, im able to better focus at work, and a lot of other nice things, just by erradicating carbs.
Also, its the only "diet" that makes sense to me.
I get to him by his Silicon Valley histories, and read ALL of his blog in a couple of days.
Besides him being a great storyteller, he has something valuable to tell, even if its not your field.
Thats sounds shallow. If I have a great meal or watch a good play in a theather or any other "high" art, and im able to pay atention and find interesting stuff in the work,I engage with the sensitive side and that alone, makes me a better person.
Agree. Last week I was discussing with a friend about the significance of certain writer (wich I read in highschool and havent reread again) and I was surprised I could come up with some significant hindsigths about his work.
I guess I internalized and talking about it years later, at the ligth of many other things I have read and received, I was able to articulate about it.
Yes they do. I constantly find blocked sites (latest google translator).
I think in a knowledge economy, blockin your knowledge workers access to the greatest repository of knowledge mankind has created, its at best, dumb.
I've found that being able to learn quickly has given me an edge in various enviroments, so cripling that capability only criples an organization.