Devoltion in career

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

--- Robert Louis Stevenson

When one is focusing in one single thing in life, the rest of the things surround him is just the black ground and the the front end that attracts his attention.

If the business is a valuable pursue, the perpetual neglect of many other things may be a worthwhile price one choose to pay...

Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives -
when we give
we receive

- when a business does something good for
somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

   --  Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Having interesting conversations

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally.

And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

-- David Weinberger


If you like the above quotation, you may like to read his book "Everything is miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder."

Some topics in this book I enjoyed are:

* the differences between how we organize and think about physical and digital information (very much a librarian's approach)

* the power of the Internet to let us consume information in unique and customized ways (the free text indexing that public enjoyed)

* the implications of the above for retailing, politics and education (tagging and not classification by call number or control vocabulary etc.)

If you do not have time to read his book, you may like to listen to his interview at:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/06/weinberger_on_e.html


Notes:

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger. Times Books, 2007.