Work Life Choices - Your Search Advisor
march 2010 by bkerr
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”
- Jack Welch
work
life
- Jack Welch
march 2010 by bkerr
Evolving Web: People You Like are Good Business
february 2010 by bkerr
So this incredibly unscientific equation is saying, work is balanced by income and satisfaction. And we've found that the cost / benefit analysis of working with people we like so far and away outweighs the opportunity costs of making more money with unenjoyable people.
projects
work
customers
february 2010 by bkerr
Vacuum | Lindsay Marshall on Serendipity
may 2007 by bkerr
"We are not ... looking for tools to record our thoughts or to provide them with structure. What we seek is something that leads us to the unforeseen collisions, the copulations that lead to new thoughts, new connections and yet more new meetings."
writing
storage
work
process
text
correspondence
self
discovery
may 2007 by bkerr
ConceptShare | Web-Based Idea and Design Sharing and Collaboration
may 2007 by bkerr
Using this to review some print marketing materials on a project, so far so good.
work
process
design
share
commentary
etc
collaboration
tools
may 2007 by bkerr
Detroit News | Noogler? Zany Google can make you one
march 2007 by bkerr
Friends, countrypersons, it's come to this: "Grady Burnett, head of Google's Ann Arbor operations -- dressed up like a duck."
google
annarbor
work
culture
duck-typing
avian
costumed
employers
sweet-science
more-ridiculous-than-menlo
college-kids-no-last-names
chicka-quack-quack
march 2007 by bkerr
the show with zefrank | 2007-03-12 "bittersweet"
march 2007 by bkerr
"Move from zero to one."
zefrank
theshow
creativity
work
process
zero
one
march 2007 by bkerr
Coghead, Inc | Going Bedouin
march 2007 by bkerr
"Any reduction of distraction or complexity that is due to operational infrastructure is a good thing. The goal of 'going Bedouin' is to create a low inertia business that takes less capital to get started and that can react with greater agility."
coworking
biz
work
design
process
escalation
momentum
network-equals-jellyfish
soft
organization
material-objects-are-overrated
via:vielmetti
march 2007 by bkerr
The Omni Mouth | OmniGraffle for Bureaucracy
march 2007 by bkerr
Hint on using OmniGraffle to fill out poorly-behaved PDF forms.
omnigraffle
bureaucratic
paper
work
process
mac
march 2007 by bkerr
PigPog | Things You Can Be Creative With
march 2007 by bkerr
"In the mood for getting creative, but not sure what to do? Take a look through this list for some inspiration -- you can be creative with anything!" List including computer mice, gummi bears, rocks, sand, urinals.
creativity
human
design
work
process
tools
march 2007 by bkerr
Coworking wiki
january 2007 by bkerr
"Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents."
work
process
openspace
coworking
january 2007 by bkerr
Meatball Wiki: History of SunirShah: Changes (December 5, 2006 12:23 pm c.f. January 4, 2007 2:04 am)
january 2007 by bkerr
"I have used more to do lists, action plans, dependency managers, and spreadsheets than I care to recount ... They're called deadlines because you're supposed to die. It's all about fear, and therefore terrible."
edu
work
process
via:markdilley
january 2007 by bkerr
Concurring Opinions | A Guide to Grading Exams
december 2006 by bkerr
For all you SI students who care about yr gradez: "The purpose of this post is to serve as a guide to young professors about how to perfect their grading skills and as a way for students to learn the mysterious science of how their grades are determined."
edu
work
process
grades
umich
si
fun
via:msittig
december 2006 by bkerr
Monokai | Using Textmate, MTASC and XTrace to build Flash projects in Mac OSX
december 2006 by bkerr
I have a Flash front-end in the somewhat near future :(
textmate
flash
work
process
december 2006 by bkerr
The Art of Complex Problem Solving
november 2006 by bkerr
Kind of overdone visuals -- but I can think of a few processes that would benefit from this kind of display.
visual
display
groups
work
process
via:thedaniel
november 2006 by bkerr
Bruce Eckel | What Questions Would You Ask?
september 2006 by bkerr
"The questions you forget to ask when you are interviewing for a job, but wish you'd asked after taking the job."
work
process
interview
september 2006 by bkerr
Wiki That!
september 2006 by bkerr
Blogging about the "simple, seamless, enjoyable way to communicate for civic and enterprise groups that actually DO stuff."
wiki
work
process
nptech
npwiki
weblogs
via:markdilley
september 2006 by bkerr
cofpractice-biblio
august 2006 by bkerr
"A [wiki] bibliography on communities of practice produced by CPsquare and com-prac."
community
social
humans
work
process
processarts
wiki
bibliography
august 2006 by bkerr
Bill Watterson at Kenyon College Commencement (May 20, 1990)
may 2006 by bkerr
"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."
comics
work
art
etc
via:thedaniel
may 2006 by bkerr
Line56.com | Web 2.0: Ready to Go
may 2006 by bkerr
"A wiki is the voice and platform of the drone, and there are many, many more drones than managers. A wiki is a way for drones to organize themselves and to serve their own needs without waiting for the boss, the manager, or the Encyclopedia Britannica."
wiki
work
labor
may 2006 by bkerr
Coudal Partners | Close Enough
april 2006 by bkerr
"An experiment about working together."
video
group
work
process
fun
april 2006 by bkerr
The Onion | Many Senators Developing Simple Tools For Governing
april 2006 by bkerr
"We noticed about a month ago that an alpha senator and majority-leader silverback named 'Bill' had taken to banging his lectern with a hammer-like implement instead of using his fist or a leg of meat as the others do."
politics
work
process
tools
april 2006 by bkerr
Producing Open Source Software, by Karl Fogel
april 2006 by bkerr
"...is a book about the human side of open source development."
freedom0
work
process
open
development
april 2006 by bkerr
Bureau of Workplace Interruptions
april 2006 by bkerr
"The ruptures we create are temporary spaces for open dialogue, invisible resistance, and general amusement."
work
process
attention
disruption
si502
fun
april 2006 by bkerr
DCist: A Site Announcement
december 2005 by bkerr
Rob steps down from DCist (he got a "real" e.g. extra-blogland gig).
annarbor
umich
alumni
weblogs
work
december 2005 by bkerr
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