As Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas by accident, I picked up nuggets of wisdom from others over the week-end for this Monday Work Etiquette # 7.
Let me start with Marc Andreessen ‘s Guide to Career Planning: Part 1: Opportunity.
His first rule is Do not Plan your Career and I like his take on staying put: Standing pat and being unhappy about it has risks of its own, particularly to your happiness. And it is awfully hard to be highly successful in a job or field in which one is unhappy.
If you are looking for inspiration on ways to get out of a rut Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt might do the trick. The 5th edition of these wisdom cards is out.
The way we work is still revolving around the 9 to 5 standard but as Matt of Signal versus Noise reminds us Time is more Flexible than Most of us Think.
Scott Berkun author of The Myths of Innovation suggest we Kill Creative Romance: Every amazing creative thing you’ve ever seen, or idea you’ve ever
heard can be broken down into smaller ideas that existed before.
I entertained the same thoughts a couple of days ago when someone took issue with me on why I did not write different stories on different sites but instead highlighted them.
I was called a spammer when all I was trying to do was first get the word out and second widen my audience.
Is there anything wrong with that?
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To give credit where it’s due I found some inspiration for this story via 5 Ways to Shake up Your Thinking by Anne Zelenka