When I Thought I Was Smart

http://toyblog.typepad.com/lemon/2008/04/when-i-thought.html

by antiform • 18 years ago

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sophist• 18 years ago

"i still think i'm smart, actually."

Not smart enough to use proper capitalization, it seems...

sdpurtill• 18 years ago

"comfort is the last state of mind before death."

Does this mean that being comfortable at a company that it's about to die? Not sure I understood this one, explain please!

d0mine• 18 years ago

As long as you live you always have something to worry about.

  A possible interpretation along the line: "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Andrew S. Grove

aasarava• 18 years ago

Unfortunately, a lot of those "let's talk about improving the company" retreats do end up being historic wastes of time -- but not necessarily because the meeting itself happened, but because nothing happened afterward. Or more specifically, the people with the power to make changes based on what they are being told rarely take any followup action. For them, the conversation at the retreat is the action.

bprater• 18 years ago

Great stuff. When a committee's job is to make sure that each individual in the room does what is necessary to keep their employeement with the company, the life is ready to be sucked out of out of the company.

When I Thought I Was Smart

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