Don’t Be Cool
Love this: Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. More great life/creative ideas at the W+K London blog
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Quote of the day: Dan Wieden
March 2, 2012
Just do the things you love. Do what turns you on, say what you wish somebody else would say.
You Say Failure, I Say Evolution
December 17, 2011
Over at Harvard Business Review Jeff Stibel writes about embracing failure. His office is home to a “failure wall” where employees are encouraged to: “(1) describe a time when you failed, (2) state what you learned, and (3) sign your name.” He concludes by saying: “If we hadn’t hired people who cherish failures, my entries… [Read more…]
Squidoo Rocks!
December 1, 2011
I dig Squidoo. It’s a clever online platform that lets you project your life through a ‘lens’ Check out my first lens: a snapshot of my project management experience on Rock Chic.
The Value of Mistakes
November 18, 2011
My friend works for an American company and observed that her Yankee counterparts are “terrified of making mistakes.” How do you figure? I asked. Shit, look at Iraq. Then I thought about it. The American government is a dog-and-pony show of what not to do when left in charge but ordinary citizens? Different story. America… [Read more…]
Dear Prospective Employer – I’d Kill for a Job
November 10, 2011
I look as if I’ve just killed someone with my bare hands. It’s only paint but the dark brownish-red dots splotches on my palms and nails ringed in non-cosmetic scarlet are suggestive. Part of me wishes it were true. It would open up a range of new employment opportunities. Bodyguard. Assassin. Ninja. Gun for hire.… [Read more…]
Food for Thought
June 20, 2010
Posted by Cila Warncke After managing to avoid waitressing for, oh, 15 years, I have tumbled into restaurant-work like a full pint glass pitching off a wobbly tray. Catastrophe, right? Yet, like the sound of smashing glass, strangely satisfying. It’s going to be messy. I’m going to hate myself, my colleagues and my customers on… [Read more…]
What Are You Writing For?
April 18, 2010
Posted by Cila Warncke This is one of my favourite Bill Hicks clips. I love the way his face conveys astonishment, scorn, outrage, and despair all bundled together so seamless-awkwardly it can’t help being hilarious. He doesn’t have to clap hand to forehead; the words make the motion for him. “What are you reading for?”… [Read more…]
Writing is like Fucking…
March 5, 2009
Posted by Cila Warncke Writing for a Living: a Joy or a Chore? the Guardian asks, and famous novelists answer. Literary navel-gazing amuses me because nobody gives a goddamn what writers think about writing, apart from other writers. And they only to scroll through the words to see whose neurosis most closely match their own.… [Read more…]
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