Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Some folks apparently didn’t understand my many references to this personality in the thread about Mary getting busted six ways from Sunday after she ‘fessed up to gutterballing the job interviews of applicants for technical positions.
We need to synchronize on our terms, since if you’re missing this you’re missing a lot. And, of course, it’s funny as all holy hell.
A reasonable debate can be had about whether the goal is really to keep Nick Burns out of your organization. That could be what it’s all about…the talking points seem to suggest this…but they don’t say this outright, word-for-word. That always makes me suspicious.
My whole beef is — if you’re going to avoid these altercations by “template-ing” your personnel, so that everybody behaves more or less the same way within a given situation, you’re probably exacerbating the problem. Interacting with people who aren’t exactly like us, is what makes us as mature and as socially capable as we are — necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. And, of course, IT is a special case because IT is where you need to fix what’s busted, especially if what’s busted is part of a new system in your organization that doesn’t have a robust support mechanism in place, and that’s exactly where this cookie-cutter corporate personality template really starts to hurt. You get a toughie that three or four of your best have already tried to solve and it’s still going unsolved, you’re probably going to want to increase the odds that the fifth guy who takes a peek at it has a shot at cracking it. Well, that’s a no-go if everyone’s been selected for common interests, common behaviors and common backgrounds. Can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.
“Rogue” IT types, Mary called ’em…feh. We could benefit from some discussion about what exactly that is supposed to mean. I’ll bet the people who think like Mary, wouldn’t want that to be subject to any debate, or definition, at all. Their preference would be to keep slinging that term around, without defining it. That’s my guess, and I’ll bet a lot of money on it.
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