A great book by Marshall Goldsmith outlines 20 often-unconscious habits that can damage your relationship with colleagues, family, or people that work with you closely. These traits can often also impact careers and opportunities for promotion as they put you in negative light despite hard work, devotion or talents that could make you [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Thursday, 17th Apr, 2008
One cannot know everything or be able to read everything at once, but if you really try, you can get pretty damn good and being able to find information fast, from the wrong sources…
Posted by: Diana Zink on Sunday, 13th Apr, 2008
Being in the flow of development can be both satisfying and energizing as days and nights of excited work pile into months and series of great projects. Yet getting used to the stress and pressure of oncoming work can seriously limit ones ability to see outside the stream. Just as driving at high speeds narrows one’s focus into a smaller area to boost reflexes and reaction times, sinking into fast paced projects can rarely allow a good view of the big picture.
Posted by: Diana Zink on Wednesday, 9th Apr, 2008
Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, bloggers, YouTube, and many of the other pillars of attention online gain their strength because of tapping several major representations of curiosity online:
1. Need for Attention: seeking of action and reaction. From pokes to blog posts, odd status messages, Video posts, and profile pictures many strive to be noticed. Knowing that [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Saturday, 5th Apr, 2008
Guess what are the three things in common between e-mail, snail mail, blogging, social networking, computer games, games period, tabloids, sports, You Tube, and successful advertising? (Playing Jeopardy tune here)…
Not to keep you guessing for too long, here are the top answers:
1. All of them, worldwide, attract a significant amount of attention
2. All of them, worldwide, suck in enormous amounts of time
3. All of them, worldwide, feed off of our insatiable curiosity and need for feedback
Now, even though we all know curiosity has nothing to do with dead cats (most of the time), it has everything to do with wastes of time and making of money. That is why this article strives to unveil some of the origins and applications of the above-mentioned phenomenon.
Posted by: Diana Zink on Saturday, 5th Apr, 2008
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