…is one of those memes that keep popping up here and there that people quickly take to heart.
Maybe ‘loving what we do’ first and then ‘doing what we love,’ when we’ve actually figured out what that might be, is a more useful strategy.
Another meme and constant exhortation is to be authentic. Seth Godin has mentioned that a person needs to be professional, not authentic. One doesn’t want, for example, one’s dentist to be authentic while performing a root canal. One wants him/her/them to be professional.
We can be authentic with our friends but maybe our colleagues deserve us to be professional when engaging.
These memes and rules of thumb are great generalizers that maybe need slightly more scrutiny than we usually give them.
Written while listening to Ludovico Einaudi
Best thing I came across over the last week.
“It’s easy to blame the ability of technology to replace human labour for declining wages and increased wealth inequality. But technology is being used for cost reduction rather than to empower people and to reach for the stars not because that is what technology wants, but because it is what the legal and financial system we have built demands.”
Tim O’Reilly, WTF, What’s The Future and Why It’s Up To Us
William Kerr And associates 