This has been my hunch, too. People respond poorly to financial incentives for creative and innovative and challenging success. In other words, you can't pay me to do a great job unless I love what I do.
I also really appreciate the three motivators: autonomy, mastery, and progress. I watched TV in the 80s so it is fair for me to use the most appropriate word I know: DUH! Prior bosses who either hovered and nit-picked or performed very poorly while making more money, now you know why you were unsuccessful.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Peanut Butter & Jelly - Don't look back
It is Especially Dangerous to be Conscious of Oneself
by Jeff Alessandrelli
And supposing tomorrow we are finally rich
against the morning, the streets
scrubbed clean of concrete, asphalt and tar,
property lines extended skyward,
limbs no longer
indebted to our bodies
but splayed further, distant,
not a glass or plastic jar in sight
but still an abundance of peanut butter,
guilt-free boysenberry jam,
and then believing all this only
to consider what the percentage is
in closing your eyes
and turning around,
desperately looking back.
Taking Enviro-Art to a New Level
Whoa: a word someone once tried to read out-loud to me as "who-a". Confusing visually, unless you've got the context. What, indeed, will archaeologists of the future think of physically accurate human statues covered in corals? Likely they'll just look it up on the internet. Unless some crazy wack-job right-wing religiously fanatical nutcase who shall not be named is right and the world-as-we-know-it is coming to an end. Isn't this world changing every day, by now? Things have been changing faster and faster anyway.
Somebody re-read Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino and tell me what it was like before:
"At one time, according to Sir George H. Darwin, the Moon was very close to the Earth. Then the tides gradually pushed her far away: the tides that the Moon herself causes in the Earth's waters, where the Earth slowly loses energy...
"...Orbit? Oh, elliptical, of course: for a while it would huddle agains us and then it would take flight for a while. The tides, when the Moon swung closer, rose so high nobody could hold them back. There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair's breadth; well, let's say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up."
Now that is something you can't find on the internet. Well, now you can. See a book for the rest.
Somebody re-read Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino and tell me what it was like before:
"At one time, according to Sir George H. Darwin, the Moon was very close to the Earth. Then the tides gradually pushed her far away: the tides that the Moon herself causes in the Earth's waters, where the Earth slowly loses energy...
"...Orbit? Oh, elliptical, of course: for a while it would huddle agains us and then it would take flight for a while. The tides, when the Moon swung closer, rose so high nobody could hold them back. There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair's breadth; well, let's say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up."
Now that is something you can't find on the internet. Well, now you can. See a book for the rest.
The Knife
Music and making fun of you and me:
Ask yourself these questions:
1. When was this video made?
2. When did this band form?
3. Are the people in the video the people in the band?
4. If you close your eyes and pretend you never saw the video, do you like the music more or less or the same as before?
5. How many videos can you watch by The Knife?
Ask yourself these questions:
1. When was this video made?
2. When did this band form?
3. Are the people in the video the people in the band?
4. If you close your eyes and pretend you never saw the video, do you like the music more or less or the same as before?
5. How many videos can you watch by The Knife?
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Soundtrack for Atavistic Anxiety
Listening to this while reading this.
Fascinating. Big fears, lots of words, and I can walk away feeling happier than usual. Although I don't know what it's like to be neurotic, I've known neuroses and the people afflicted by them. Sometimes they may come from some far away, long ago, ancestral need for safety - be it safety of body or mind - but some people are simply traumatized by their past or their surroundings. Others need the attention of their mother, and get that attention by acting out like children. I am not trying to be critical, don't take it personally.
So what about the soundtrack? Music is powerful. The music linked above makes some people neurotic, and for others it signals release - in the body or mind. Music can be used as a drug; uppers from those untarnished by the popstocracy or subtle depressants inspired by the emoversity educated. Or maybe the sad songs make you happy, which is the category I find myself in today. On other days a sad song will just make me cry.
But oh well, happiness is overrated.
Fascinating. Big fears, lots of words, and I can walk away feeling happier than usual. Although I don't know what it's like to be neurotic, I've known neuroses and the people afflicted by them. Sometimes they may come from some far away, long ago, ancestral need for safety - be it safety of body or mind - but some people are simply traumatized by their past or their surroundings. Others need the attention of their mother, and get that attention by acting out like children. I am not trying to be critical, don't take it personally.
So what about the soundtrack? Music is powerful. The music linked above makes some people neurotic, and for others it signals release - in the body or mind. Music can be used as a drug; uppers from those untarnished by the popstocracy or subtle depressants inspired by the emoversity educated. Or maybe the sad songs make you happy, which is the category I find myself in today. On other days a sad song will just make me cry.
But oh well, happiness is overrated.
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