“If you’re 100 percent qualified, you’re overqualified.” ~ Lisa Panarello
So simple, and so true.
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Transferable Skills
This Tech Bubble Is Different – BusinessWeek
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says. “That sucks.” ~ Jeff Hammerbacher
via businessweek.com
Good perspective on where we stand today with internet-based businesses compared to where we were, and where we might end up. I disagree with the soundbite that I chose to clip, because I think the ad technology industry is at the core of internet innovation for a reason.
Don’t compromise the process
The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
~Yvon Chouinard from the film 180 South°: Conquerors of the Useless
via 2outofthree.com
Great documentary about a couple of guys trying to create their own version of the now infamous 1968 trip of Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The North Face). Worth a watch.
Alex Payne ??? Don’t Be A Hero
Nobody can pull heroic hours for long. Heroes get sick. They get burnt out. Eventually, the hero resents the rest of the team for not pulling their weight, and rightly so: if your team is relying on a hero, they???re not doing their jobs.
via al3x.net
Not a new post, but good perspective on the both-end-candle-burners amongst us.