I could not let the one millisecond anniversary of my not posting here — or the one year mark of my posting last, as you like it — pass without some remark. Call me sentimental, I don’t care.
Since my last writing I have started, stopped and abandoned one post too many. Among my tomes of “unpublished rhyme” I have a fair bit that reflect on time and such things. For example:
I have drafts on everything ranging from my recollections of reading Time–The Next Source of Competitive Advantage years ago when working at NYNEX to a napkin-manuscript titled “No time like the present.” After laying around for a while, that draft ultimately fulfilled its intended purpose. It was used to clean up baby-slobber and, I might add, at the very moment it was needed most. Ah, fulfilled and unfulfilled all in the same instance — priceless, ain’t it?
I have been toying with the idea of “making time” to post here. But of course, time is never really the issue, is it? How easy it is to confuse the continuum of time with how we should prioritize our being — at once and at the same time — a part of it and apart from it.
Second thing: Recent conversations with all sorts of people who lament the problems they have implementing things 2.0 in their organizations’ thinking and practice.
Particularly disappointing was Scoble’s self-confessed, web-enabled obsessive-compulsiveness and apparent delight at finding new ways to feed it. Rather than seek help for what most would consider a disorder it appears he finds all the solace he needs in a similarly unhealthy physical attachment to his computer. I could be wrong but it just struck me that way, very odd.
If you want to cut to the chase, here’s the video…
I guess these days I am easily distracted as evidenced by this post, one thing leading to another…
On researching cognitive bias I came across Enemies of Reason by Professor Richard Dawkins. The program originally aired on Channel 4. This discovery coincided with my browsing around on YouTube this time researching, um, YouTube. As a result I now know how to create a playlist and have the series of five YouTube clips roll in one continuous play. Another coincidence perhaps, but this could be what I was looking for for another project of mine. My God, that’s it! Eureka!
If I had a dollar for every time I quoted from the book: “It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission,” or warned a friend, “You don’t want to trigger the ‘corporate immune system,’ Bud,” I would be quite a few dollars better off than I am this morning. Of course, it would hardly be as I had billed it then, free advice!
Comebacks…