Todd Sattersten of 800CEORead is growing out his facial hair until the book he and Jack Covert are working on is turned in to the publishers. He posted a picture of himself in his current condition. Unable to mark directly on the photo at the CEORead blog, I've done the next best thing...I think.
Last night Todd Sattersten dragged me over to 20 x 2. Here's the blurb from the schedule of events:
Tambaleo (302 Bowie St)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Here's tonight's recipe for fun. Take twenty designers, writers, musicians and bon vivants. Give each two minutes and the same question to answer, and turn them loose before a live audience. That's the equation for 20x2, which celebrates its sixth SXSW. Join us as participants answer the question "What's the Secret?"
I know it said two minutes, but this video of Jory des Jardins answering the question runs a little longer than that.
I'll tell you what I don't know. I don't know what this blog is all about...yet. And after having read Heather Armstrong's blog today celebrating her blog's 5th birthday and telling how she didn't know where she was going, well, it makes me feel a little better. I know I want this to go somewhere. Work? Play? Pictures? Words? Videos? So in the meantime I recently read in a book that it takes 21 days to form a habit. True? I don't know. Something else I don't know, but willing to believe it. So, I'd like writing in here to become habitual. Or at least posting. Maybe it isn't always writing. Anyway, I've already got some gaps, so I don't know if it's habit-forming yet or not. And off to a skiing break later this week in Alta, Utah. Staying at the Peruvian. Big ole dormitory-type lodge at the base of the mountain. They call it rustic. But they do have wi-fi. So. No excuse. I just looked at their site. There's a bar there. I was there last year and I never made it to the bar. There's no excuse for having missed the bar either.
The most depressing line from the Blogs to Riches story in this week's New York magazine is from David Hauslaib of Jossip.com: "You gotta have something posted before people get to work," he explains, "because my audience is people who hate their work." Who's got time to hate their work? But I suppose it is true. Dilbert is still very popular after all. I was just hoping—naively, obviously—that people were more connected to their work.
In my work with Tom Peters we're trying to spread the message of bringing passion to work and doing work that matters. Our viewpoint is that any job can be turned into a great job. Or at least an opportunity to launch into something else better. But to be at work and hate what you're doing seems such a huge waste of time and talent and energy. Oh well. Here's hoping for better.
