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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

February 21, 2008 – 9:31 am

Any economics 101 student or 1980’s middle manager can tell you about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Simple put, theres a stack of stuck of stuff, and unless you have the items in the stack below you, you’re unlikely to be happy. It’s a way of modelling ways of motivating people. Giving me [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in randomosity | Comments (6)

Deligating your life

February 18, 2008 – 10:45 am

Capitalist society puhed you to make enough money to have other people do things for you.  At the very lowest level, most people don’t grow their own food, they pay somebody for it.  They don’t make their own clothes either, they buy them.  Once you move up the food chain (the financial food chain) a [...]

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Look up people

February 18, 2008 – 9:27 am

Sitting on the train this morning, reading the news and catching up on my inbox (pre-7:30am – get me), I looked up, and my mouth fell open, as I watched the firey peach ball of sun burning off the layer of mist which was caught agains the frozen ground.  It was breathtaking, magnificent, almost too [...]

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Implicit feedback loop

February 15, 2008 – 5:20 pm

If you’re having trouble fitting the diagram onto a page, or to not let Visio mess up your alignments, then the solution you’re trying to design is too complex.
Paraphrased: If it wouldn’t fit on the back of a fag packet, you shouldn’t even think about it.

By coldclimate | Posted in business, ideas | Comments (0)

Messages to the corporate world

February 13, 2008 – 8:34 am

As I give what I’m doing with my life far too much through at the moment, I enjoyed both these articles, “Open letter to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world” and it’s follow “Open letter to employees across the corporate world“, both of which makes some very good points.
This morning I [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in business | Comments (0)

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