May 16, 2007 by phillip.

Do you… Jaiku?
I’m an addict of the internet. I do it so that I’ll have great things to bring you. I’m on Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Frappr, Digg, etc, etc, etc. Now, I just joined a site called Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter in that you can get constant information on where your friends are and what they are doing if they type it on the computer or on their cell phone.

Let’s start by saying, I’m not a very secretive guy. However, the thought of putting so much about me out there to everyone seemed silly to me just a little while ago. How does the internet end up stripping this ideal of protected information from our minds? Do we all just need one more “friend” on Myspace to be comfortable? Maybe if you tell me you’re having fun at a party on Twitter I will be validated because you thought to write.
I liken it to riot mentality. Normal people that are usually civil are found to be in the middle of riots. They will burn down buildings and trash cars like all the others. Why? Like a river all the molecules of water start working together and form a perfect object. What will this riot mentality body of Internet users become?

I don’t know but I want you to be my friend. Instant Message me on AIM, be my friend on Myspace, link me to what sites your looking at on Del.icio.us or tell me what you’re doing on Jaiku. After this site I’m truly done. I will truly feel complete!!!

On second thought let me check Plaxo and see if I’m in this all alone. Jaiku me soon (I love weird names like that).

Posted in Cool Net Tricks, Life Lessons | 2 Comments »

May 16, 2007 by phillip.

I found inspiration today in a note I’d received 10 years ago.

When I was a young little buck in my career (actually I’d been doing it for some years already but doesn’t that really take away from that great intro) I worked at a huge company. It was a manufacturing facility that was part of a huge global company. One year all the locations Information Technology (IT) staff met in one city for a big pow wow.

Even though I felt really out of place amongst the “suits” somehow I caught the eye of a couple VP’s and a President that talked to me and pretty much told me they knew I was going places in this world. One took me aside and told me that he got me a book. It was on Stocks and bonds and knowing the market good and told me that it had treated him well in the past so he bought one for me because they all had so much faith in me.

Figuring that this was one of those things that they were pulling everyone aside and doing I mentioned it to some other people later. Needless to say a lot of people were pissed that they didn’t get any person time with the top Execs like I did. So I then looked at the book and treasured it.

Last night (10 years later) I looked at the book again after reading a couple chapters years before. I pulled it out hoping to get back into stocks and investing only to notice the index page for the first time. The chapters were highlighted and the order I should read them was numbered in the column. I was so touched I read the book literally all night last night and still haven’t gone to sleep yet.
Do what you love with passion and people will notice you and want to help. However, at the same time there will be ten times as many that want you to fail. Keep working relentlessly on whatever your direction is. That one in ten is always worth dealing with the other nine.

Posted in Life Lessons | 2 Comments »