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First off, let’s make one thing clear: I don’t for a second believe that there is a conspiracy of metrosexuals, nor that metrosexuals are a front for any other conspiracy. I’m just in a “what if” kind of mood, is all. So here are my theories. Continue reading The Metrosexual Conspiracy  Employers of the world, your prospective employees are not idiots. You wouldn’t be considering hiring them if they were (unless you were looking to hire drug mules or something). They can read subtext as well as, if not better than you can. So you might want to consider a little more closely how the way you handle hiring new staff makes you look. Here are a few suggestions to get you started: Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m way out of line on this one. I’m wrong. I’m over-thinking it. The thing is, I’m not. If you’re defending surprise parties, you’re under-thinking it. Let me tell you why: The man known only as “Sir” – singer, songwriter, legend of the silver guitar – was the founding member of the Replacements, the world’s finest They Might Be Giants cover band. But TMBG material doesn’t work very well with just one guy on the guitar. You need, at very least, an accordionist and a backing singer. Drums, bass and a second guitar are also nice. Back to the eternal question: Apple or Other? (It used to be Mac or PC, but now that the Smartphone front of the war has opened up, it makes more sense just to say Apple or Other.) Continue reading Comparing Intolerable Smugness apps for iPhone and Android Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas, and James Joyce, author of Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, share precisely one thing in common other than their surnames. Their differences, on the other hand, are myriad:
These two disparate scions of the Joyce lineage do have one thing in common, though: neither of them would piss on the other if he was on fire. (Although in fairness to Alan Joyce, it should be pointed out that he would in fact happily piss on anyone, whether they were on fire or not, but only in the event that he had already negotiated generous renumeration for doing so.) But sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. There was a headline on last night’s MX letterpage that asked “Wit gives you the right to be cruel?” The letter it related to was a plea for people to be nicer to celebrities like Amy Winehouse, so that we have fewer celebrity depressions and so on. It got me wondering, admittedly at something of tangent, whether wit does give you the right to be cruel. There’s two levels on which to review the Trust30 thing, and I want to address both of them here. The first level is the simple blogging of it. It was very handy to me to have a simple structure for each day of the month, with someone else have to devise the topics and ideas for me. That part was easy and successful. I will definitely be looking for more blogging challenges like this, although I promise that I won’t do one just for the sake of doing one. The second level is the more personal level, and on this level, I confess to being a little more disappointed. In myself, that is – too many of my answers were glib, or consisted of me saying I’d need to think about it more (and then not doing so). All in all, I think that the self-examination prompted by the Trust30 month was a good thing, and that I gained valuable insights from it. But I can’t help wishing that I’d gained more. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of all the things that are not working in your life. That job you don’t like, that relationship that’s not working, those friends that annoy you. Now turn them all on you. Imagine that everything that’s not working in your life, is your fault. How would you approach it? What would you work on to change your life to the state that you want it to be? Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Mess up your hair. If you are wearing makeup – smudge it. If you have a pair of pants that dont really fit you – put them on. Put on a top that doesn’t go with those pants. Go to your sock drawer. Pull out two socks that don’t match. Different lengths, materials, colors, elasticity. Now two shoes. You know the drill. Need to add more? Ties? Hair clips? Stick your gut out? I trust you to go further. Take a picture. Get ready to post it online. Are you feeling dread? Excitement? Is this not the image you have of yourself? Write about the fear or the thrill that this raises in you? Who do you need to look good for and what story does it tell about you? Or why don’t you care? Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagine your future self, ie, you 10 years from now. If he/she were to send you a tweet or text message, 1) what would it say and 2) how would that transform your life or change something you’re doing, thinking, believing or saying today? Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Write down a major life goal you have yet to achieve or even begin to take action on. For each goal, write down three uncertainties (read: fears) you have relating to each goal. Break it down further, and write down three reasons for each uncertainty. When you have three reasons for your fear, you’ll be able to start processing the change because you know where the fear stems from. Now you’ll be able to make a smaller changes that push you towards your larger goal. So begins the process of “trusting yourself.” |
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