Turns out I was bored at a few jobs. Well worth the read:
Rands: Bored People Quit
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I mentioned a few posts ago that I’ve been busy. With what you ask?
• Being a father to a wonder 10 month old daughter.
• Exploring iPhone development
Yes, that can take up a ton of time.. well, all my free time. 
Ignore sunk costs
(Via Seth’s Blog.)
This is one of the hardest concepts to understand and put into practice – I remember many great discussions in my MBA classes where people were reminded not to consider those sunk costs when making decisions, or analyzing a company’s decision.
Think about your personal life. How often have you said “well, we better do this because we’ve already paid for it”. Perhaps that isn’t the wisest course of action.
How Do You Feel About the Economy? – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
Snap Of A NYTimes feature, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.
This is a very cool feature by the NYTimes – people can drop by and enter one word a day on how they feel about the economy.
Check it out, and enter your word:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/30/business/economy/2009-economy-words.html
I entered ‘optimistic’ today.
Slow-growing trees
(Via Manton Reece.)
If you procrastinate forever, just because you won’t see results anytime soon, you’ll find yourself looking back 10 years later and wishing if only I had just planted that tree / started that new software project, it would have been done by now.
In other words, don’t let the weight of potential work stop you from doing the right thing.
Funds are being limited to higher education institutions..
And you wonder how the idiots in congress and all the idiots in America who don’t understand how modern finances work could screw things up? Go read this:
Bank Limits Fund Access by Colleges, Inciting Fears
In a move suggesting how the credit crisis could disrupt American higher education, Wachovia Bank has limited the access of nearly 1,000 colleges to $9.3 billion the bank has held for them in a short-term investment fund, raising worries on some campuses about meeting payrolls and other obligations.
Why Real Networks is doomed…
Why Rob Glaser Wants to Annoy Hollywood
When your CEO says this, you have to worry:
“The amount of money we make is still better than a sharp stick in the eye,” Mr. Glaser said. “But the real value is having another successful software product.”
Risk
My every other friday post at the Extensis blog is about risk. Let me know what you think.
(Via Manage This.)
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation – This is a great article from the Harvard Business Review on how to motivate employees. Lots of really good practical advice on managing and helping people.
(Via inluminent.)
Martha Stewart Apprentice Business Lesson
My dirty little secret is I watch Martha Stewart Apprentice.. tonight she said something interesting, that if you don’t agree with something the project manager is doing, you should speak up, get vocal and excited, vs what the team did tonight, which was say “well, I don’t support you with that, but I will help”.
Often people in their jobs get complacent and don’t care, or are scared, and don’t want to challenge people who have more power than them. Ideally we would work at a place that would value our opinion, allow us to argue the decisions vocally and with excitement. Keep that in mind at your positions tomorrow, or in those meetings you are a part of.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled non cancelled tv show now.