Managing oneself 27 maj 2008

Often when I try to understand my actions I find myself going back to an article by Peter Drucker once published in Harvard Business Review: Managing oneself.

There are so many great concepts on self management in that one article. Over the years it has become the foundation of my self grasp. I find myself going back and rereading it at least once or twice a year.

For instance I've come to learn that I'm a reader not a listener, as well as being a talker, not a writer. It's about how you efficiently recieve and convey information to and from the world around you.

I warmly recommend you to read it. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it as much as I have.

Would you hire me? 22 maj 2008

I read this blog post on job hopping.

It hits home. I've held five jobs in 12 years, and I've finished three educations while attending four. I'm most certainly a job hopper. But, I'm also a person with a great resume, and you'll get very good descriptions from my past bosses. I'm eager, productive, creative, hard working, not your usual nine-to-five'r, thoughful, supportive teamplayer. Hehe... No but seriously. I'm the kind of guy you want around when shit hits the fan, because I'll remain focused and pull through. I'll even clean up with a smile. :-)

So, would you hire me? I sure hope so. And I've not been having any trouble getting interesting jobs so far.

My thought is that this is more of a "am I fit for a big corporate structure" kind of question. I know I'm not. But job hopping is probably the way of the future, even for large corporations. So Suits, listen up! Get used to it. We're the new generation and we're going to play it our way, wheather you like it or not.

That's all folks, thank you and good night. :-)

Where is the new TechCrunch?

I was amazed today when I noticed TechCrunch has 947 000 daily RSS subscribers. When I started reading TC it had less than 100K daily subscribers through RSS. ( < 78K if I remember correctly).

But it also got me thinking. Way back TC was the subculture club for tech geeks and entrepreneurs (wannabees?).

Has TechCrunch gone mainstream? I'm not sure, but a million readers would suggest so.

So where is the buzz now? Within million readers is a large number of sub niches that alone could create greats blog themselves. Is TechCrunch getting too wide/broad?

As usual I suspect I'm a little ahead of the game. However, I'm sure there are changes coming.

... and... Any tips for niche tech-blogs I should read?

stumbled upon 16 maj 2008

I was gonna rant on something very trivial... But fuck it. My colleague Mikael is having a baby! Everlastning cheers and happiness for him!

I'm very envious. I hope you can tell.

A documentary you should see 12 maj 2008

In the wee morning hours I finished watching A Crude Awakening (?). It's a documentary about the human society's dependancy on oil. It covers the implications of reaching peak oil production and what it means to our very existance.

It's a very scary movie. It delivers a stunningly depressive message. Even though this may sound like a bad review I strongly urge you to take 90 minutes of your time to see this movie. It's important that you do so.

If you can't find a screening or afford the DVD, there are other ways.

I've spent a lot of time the last 24 hours thinking of how a society should quickly adapt to face a challenge of this proportion. Maybe, if I can find the time, I'll blog about that later.

Until then, you know what you have to do.