Wenn Leute sich an der Kasse mit ihrem vollen Wagen noch schnell vor mich und meine 2 Teile drängeln, weil ich noch kurz nen Schritt zum anderen Kassenregal gemacht habe, reg ich mich nicht auf, sondern freu mich einfach, dass ich nicht so bin.
>> The alternative to your [journalism] CV
We’re entering a world that rewards guts, action, execution, total commitment, responsibility and initiative over work placements and qualifications.
>> Microsoft’s Biggest Miss
minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss.
Like the curtain finally falling from the Wizard of Oz to find just a small, frail, man pretending to be far more powerful and relevant than he really was. Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done. Or anything done, really.
>> All or something
37signals.com/svn/posts/3106-all-or-something.
The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much less than the first. The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.
This is of course nothing new. We’ve been playing this bongo drum for years. But every time I see people crumble and quit from the crunch-mode pressure cooker, I think what a shame, it didn’t have to be like that. It’s the same when I read yet another story about someone who won the startup lottery, and the stereotypical startup role model is glorified and cemented again.
>> Planettigkeiten, Austausch von
Das ist mir mehr noch beim Lesen der Kommentare als beim eigentlichen Text von Peter Breuer selbst aufgefallen. Ja, Problem erkannt – aber die Eigenverantwortung mal ganz schnell von sich weisen. Immer die anderen.