My wife bought me Rework Hardcover from Kinokuniya over the weekend. Its a wonderful gift and I’m really thankful. You see this is not a normal business book, some of its concepts are turning traditional business processes on its head and being a bestseller in US and UK you know there is something exceptional there.
Like its title, Work as we know, is getting Reworked.
I’m managing a Projects team in a Digital Agency in Singapore and intrinsically, projects processes also weighs on my shoulder. Having been a designer and a coder, I know that high during uninterrupted blissful productivity. Now I’m on the otherside of the fence, on the managing and client facing side of things, activities are very different and I do miss those highs.
Jason Fried, Author of Rework and co-founder and President of 37signals recently presented at Ted and its a wonderful 15 mins worth of provocative business / management sharing that everyone should sit thru.
I think the future of how we work is going to be different, very different, especially in our internet industry. People will be highly skilled and be able to pick up new skills very quickly simply by searching online. Efficiency and productivity will be so high via mobile devices that we can either do a lot more wherever or choose to spend a lot more time on other things. I’m so excited.
Jeff Brenman did a set of beautiful slides which predicts the future of Work. I think its super accurate and hope for this future to happen now.
In Genesis 32:22-31 of the Bible, it talks about Jacob going thru the transformation from am average person to become the person whom he was destined to be (father of Israel).
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.†~ Genesis 32:28
A sincere encouragement to all those who are struggling out there. Fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith.
The movie is super fast paced. It starts with brilliant scriptwriting and darts around several parallel story lines.
The movie gives a good feel of how it was like back in the dorm days when Zuckerberg was coding the very first Facebook website. He coded like mad and school was like an obligation. When a cool idea would spark off in his mind or when he hears someone saying something that would be brilliant to add to the mix of the Facebook soup of features, he would dart off only to code more to make Facebook more like Facebook. I will not go into the whole law suit who was right and wrong thing, there are enough debate of it online already.
I think what the movie did really well was that there were so many parts that tech people can relate to. The whole I-need-to-fix-this-bug-and-lost-track-of-time thing, the whole I-only-feel-physically-tired-when-my-mind-have-achieved-its-focused-goal. The whole time, the movie was groggy.
Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention? Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No. Gage: Do you think I deserve it? Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What? Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention? Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don’t want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no. Gage: Okay – no. You don’t think I deserve your attention. Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try – but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
[pauses] Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
The official site have loads of nice stuff, so do check out the global site and also the local Singapore site for official trailers and goodies.
After watching the show, I naturally went to do some research and reading up. The few links below were the main ones I read up on. So if you’ve not seen the movie, bookmark this post, go watch the movie, then come back and check out the links below.
Back in 2006, I told a friend that Facebook should be the final Social Networking site and so far I’m still correct. However, plagued with many privacy issues and like the movies tag line “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”, there are people who hate Facebook. But is there enough hate to bring facebook down or support something else that might take over facebook?
The 2 projects that I know of that are contending with Facebook are:
Diaspora which is an open-source distributed social networking service and the cool thing is Zuckerberg actually donated money to it.
MyCube founded by Johan Staël von Holstein aims to give you privacy, ownership and control of your digital life. read about it here. They also presented at the Social Media World Forum Asia this year. I was personally involved in this project from Dec 2009 till sometime around Mar/April 2010 so do hope that It will work as planned and cause a ripple online, but its really technically challenging to pull it off from what I can see. Sign up on their site to check out their progress.
Go watch The Social Network
The kids stayed at home
If Mark Zuckerberg is worth US$6.9 billion and if you are just 1% as brilliant as him, you would still be worth US$6.9 million. Wah… the movie really make you want to go something…
It seems like just yesterday that we found out Pearl was pregnant with #3, how time flies, Clara is now one month old.
To celebrate, we held a big BBQ for the family on 10 Oct 2010. I think there were about 80 of us at the BBQ.
BBQ for Clara
That sunday was also the first day Cleo got off her training wheels.
Yo!
Clara have been sleeping alot (like all babies do), been getting breast fed alot, pooping ALOT and interestingly GRUNTING alot especially at night when she is asleep. She keeps on stretching herself as if like she is suppose to transform or something. Really don’t understand as Clié and Cleo both did not make such strange noises.
Clara is in Da House!
When she is awake, she is quite passive and stares at things alot. You can really tell that she can’t focus yet and don’t know what is in front of her. She is constantly in a daze.
Sleepy Girl
When she sleeps, sometimes she pouts her lips and its super cute. She does it very often, so not too difficult to catch it on camera. Maybe she is dreaming of being breast fed.
Tiny Hands
Her hands are oh so tiny.
Tiny Feet
So are her feet.
Sleepy Head
Sometimes she sleeps in this position and she can be gone for several hours. It really looks super comfortable. It reminds me of the time when Clié was found sleeping in our walk-in cupboard.
Watcha lookin at!
But most of the time, Clara is in a daze. She is high on mommy’s goodness every 2 hours or so.
Waiting for the barf
I wonder what will Clara be like when she grows up. As parents we really don’t know what to expect, only time will tell. All we can do is to provide her the best environment we can.
