It seems like every famous person has some how codified the rules by which they live their life. In the next couple of days i’m going to start writing again, and i’ll attempt to do the same for me. I’ll probably take one post of laying them all out, and then following them up with more elaborate explanations of each.
And i’m giving up soda and a crappy diet.
I guess the person best fit for ‘management’ in the utopian sense is technically proficient and altruistic towards the business/customer for which he works.
I have a lot of ideas that people tell me are terrible, but I like them so I’ve decided to share twohere.
1. Pizza Hut is missing out on an amazing opportunity. Currently they pay drivers to make small, local trips. rarely a high way in use. What other market has people making local drives, and fear of highways? New Drivers. Pizza hut driving school would allow for cheap labor (free) while providing a useful service to the rest of the community. I like the idea of the pizza guy giving my pizza and being so happy he made it here alive he cannot complain about the minuscule tip i am about to give him. Let’s make this work, people.
2. This one has legs. And more importantly, blatant and vicious honesty. It’s essentially a phone bank where people can call in and leave a message and a number for the operators to call. We then call that number and give them the message. Sure it could be used as a go-between for drug deals and other scams, but it can also b used to say things that people are afraid to say. With the advent of the internet, people everywhere have become used to passive communication. No longer can one tell a friend he has bad breath or body odor. Or even break up with a person without a text message. This way, people can have an intermediary give the bad news and remain completely anonymous.
Yes this could be used against certain people, if someone calls in for you and tells the operator to confess to cheating on a wife, for example, that would suck. But i’m thinking of the money making possibilities. Make these people call in and listen to advertisements before getting the news. Have it tailored to their issue… can’t last in bed? How about viagra or some numbing lotion. Bad breath? Listerine would love this target demographic.
Like I said, this idea has legs… I say we run with it.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more
This morning my roommate said “I’m so glad Gangl is back” and I have to agree with this.
The past few days have been a lot of fun, and it’s something that i really needed. I went through some rough times recently, as evidenced by my recent posts. Maybe i was a bit dramatic about it all, but some talks with a few friends of mine made a huge difference.
I asked a friend of mine what makes her happy. Her response was fairly honest, and it was spiritual in nature, but the way i asked the question made the conversation more itneresting and more revealing to me. I asked her what made her happy in a solitary way, that friends and family were a given, but what did she do that made her happy on her own. After she responded, i was telling her how i wasn’t very happy lately, and that i wasn’t sure what that meant for me or for anyone around me. I felt as if I was getting hapiness from my group of friends, but i wasn’t bringing anything to the table.
She was quick to point out that I’ve been myself lately, and that our friends have really enjoyed it. But most importantly she mentioned that she’s thankful for our friends and her family, and that it’s not a “given” as i so callously put it. This is about the time that I was struck by how awesome my friends are. It’s like those stories in which a group of people go looking for treasure, and the real treasure they found were the memories they were creating. Cliche shit like that, that’s about how obvious my revelation was, but you need it from time to time.
Quick note, I think those Nutrisystem meal programs which are advertised on ESPN now use the pot roast line as a joke. Mike Golic can’t possibly be that excited about pot roast. In fact, I think it’s the most forgettable meal in the history of meals.. what the hell?
Along the commercial lines, the Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich commercial showing a man throughout his life enjoying the sandwich goes about one decade too far. There was absolutely no reason to make him bald at the end there, i’m not sure if he’s normally bald, or if they did that specifically for the age effect, but it’s ridiculous.
And I cannot get enough of Rise Against right now. Obviously the title is there, referencing Audience of One, but I think they have about 6-7 songs on my favorite list, a list which i can listen to everysong on it and not be tired of it. Ok, maybe there is one by Audioslave that i’m getting tired of, but it’s still good.