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I left this on David's Facebook page:
Dave, I saw you speak at the Holy Blossom Temple before the Iraq War.
It was a big night for you. A packed house and Robert Fulford gave you an Incredible introduction and greeting - yet I felt, later, that you misled us with your confidence about Iraq's readiness for change and I've wondered how you felt about what you said after the invasion went awry.
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Audrey Best, ex-wife of former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard died at age 50. She was a flight attendant when she met Bouchard but went to law school in her 30s.
I recall being at a family dinner for Father’s Day when she and Lucien walked by our table. She was strikingly beautiful, like a movie star, and as we said a polite “hello” she turned to the men in our party and stated: “Happy Father’s Day!”
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Today I noticed a blog that provides a full feed of my blog in his. It's called CareerBaron.com and you can see my feed here.
I used to use Newsgator to feed stuff into my blogs but Newsgator ended that function a few years ago. So, I'm wondering what program Justin the Career Baron is using to feed me into him.
Also, what if I publish something he doesn't like? Can he delete a specific posting? I don't think so. For instance, if I called this Justin Mingus is a Content Criminal I don't think he could get rid of it without dumping me from his feed.
Or Justin Mingus is a little mingus. (You have to go to Urban Dictionary to find the meaning of that one - NSFW).
Justin also has a feed of Jason Alba and @Blogging4Jobs and @MeghanMBiro and David Perry and @HRBartender and @ResumeBear and @Ray_anne and @AndyHeadworth and @KevinWGrossman and Joshua Waldman and @CareerSherpa and Ben Eubanks and @JoshTolan and @pamslim and many more.
I guess it's no different from subscribing to all of these blogs on Google Reader and then making it public (if Google Reader lets you do that) but it just kind of rubs you the wrong way.
I mean people can see that the Recruiting Animal wrote his articles but Ben Eubanks is just listed as Ben. No one is going to give any credit to him. Not that anyone reads the CareerBaron but it's just the idea, you know what I'm saying?
Here's an article about Google Reader sharing. And another. And here.
PS: I thought Jason's use of expertize was incorrect spelling but it looks like I'm wrong.
You can reach Justy at <justin.mingus@careerbaron.com> or (614) 285-4626.
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A now zuftig Debbie Harry says she was a drug addict of some sort in the late 1980s.
She was depressed because Blondie's record company dropped the group, their manager quit and they had problems with the Internal Revenue.
She went into rehab with Chris Stein and solved her problem.
It's surprising that they became addicts after their popularity faded. It wasn't a matter of too much celebrating when they were at their peak but more a matter of has-been-itis.
Source: The London Evening Standard
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A few months ago I was interviewed by @HRMargo.
We discussed relationship building and recruiting.
PLAY - Recruiting is not relationship building
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Derived from a posting at the Study Hacks blog.
If you want to be a star it takes a lot of work.
But your level of performance does not merely depend on the number of years of experience you have under your belt.
You need to put in a lot of hours to become exceptional but hours alone won't do it.
The best chess players don't just put in time playing. They study the game for 5000 hours in their first 10 years of serious play. That's five times more than intermediate-level players.
What do they do? They review the past games of better players trying to predict each move in advance.
Deliberate Practice is a techique for skill improvement invented by Anders Ericcson.
It requires a lot of repetition and it's called "deliberate" because you don't go through your actions automatically with your mind on something else but with a conscious effort to improve.
It's a struggle because you are constantly doing something you cannot yet do well.
And you need some way to get feedback to see if your actions are coming closer to your goal or if they need adjustment.
Most people do not spend time on Deliberate Practice. They just try to do their jobs well. Regular work in a specific field will make you better but without deliberate practice it will not make you great.
You'll be an intermediate chess player not a grand master.
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I have made notes about some postings from the Study Hacks blog below. I used the text found on the blog whenever possible but it is too radically changed to be considered a quotation.
He needed to learn about X so he built an annotated bibliography on a web page.
It took two hours of hard work to describe the information in his own words and organize it.
Fight Anxious Rumination (highly edited)
He would notice a flaw in his work and worry that his future would be ruined if he didn't find a solution for it.
He would begin obsessively seeking a fix making relaxation impossible.
To calm down he created a ritual to end his day. He would say "shutdown complete".
Then whenever he started thinking about a fix after work he would say.
“I completed my work today. I trust that I have a way to deal with this problem in the future. Therefore, I’m not worried.”
The key point here is that he didn’t try to ignore the urge to ruminate — which rarely works — but also didn’t engage rumination.
In less than month, the urge to ruminate on these issues had become almost non-existent. So long as he did my shutdown each day his mind had been trained to release work-related anxiety.
Focus intently on developing a small number of valuable skills.
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From: Ron Radosh on Peter Dreier
Dreier, a man I have met personally and who is a good friend of a good friend of mine, sent me a nasty e-mail a few years ago.
He went bananas after I wrote one of my critical articles about Pete Seeger (one of his heroes in the new book) and told me that not only was I one of the worst people on earth, but that he knew that the only thing that got me up in the morning was the desire to drive to Wal-Mart, shop there, and hence oppress the poor.
I responded to him that he should complain to his other great hero, Bruce Springsteen, since just that week the singer had announced that his new CD would be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart!
I then got in my car and, to make myself feel good, drove to Wal-Mart and did some grocery shopping.
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From: Lester Bangs: John Lennon Obit (highly edited)
I don't know what is more pathetic, the people of my generation who refuse to let their 1960s adolescence die a natural death, or the younger ones who will snatch any shred of a dream that was over ten years ago.
The Beatles were a moment and to keep turning the embers of those dreams this way and that in hopes the flame will somehow flicker up again in the eighties is a futile pursuit.
In some of this last interviews, John Lennnon said, "We were the hip ones of the sixties. But the world is not like the sixties. The whole world has changed. Produce your own dream. It's quite possible to do anything."
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From: Barry Rubin
Nothing is stranger than having a normal life and then within a few hours knowing that it might end at almost any moment. That’s what happened to me when I was just diagnosed with what is called inoperable lung cancer.
From: James Kugel, Valley of the Shadow (edited)
The main change in my state of mind was that the background music suddenly stopped. It had always been there, the music of daily life that's constantly going, the music of infinite time and possibilities; and now suddenly it was gone replaced by nothing, just silence.
This was definitely a different perspective. But how could I have ever thought that life would just go on forever? I did, of course; that's what the music does, and everyone is caught up in it.
Willian Saroyan is reported to have said: "I know everyone has to die, but somehow I always thought an exception would be made in my case." It's what we all think.
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