WORK
I’m almost done with the shed I’ve been building (pictures in the Flickr bar to the left) and I’ll be going back to working on my website project soon. More about that here soon as well. I just noticed that Digg.com got $2.8 million dollars in venture funding which makes me very excited. Whether or not we’re heading into another bubble it’s probably too soon to tell but I don’t think so. I do think we’re seeing the return of huge money to startups, some of which I hope goes in my direction next year. :)
tags: grommes
Second, not everybody has the same ideas about work. If you have a way you like to work, make sure others know that. I like to multi-task; to have a few browser tabs open, 2 different projects, etc. This lets me flip back and forth between things I’m doing if one is in a waiting state or I just need a break from one thing. This works fine for me, I get things done this way. Other people might not have the same opinion about it. Make sure that the way you like to work is okay with your bosses. And believe me, even if they don’t say anything about it, they have opinions and might think something completely different about it. A lot of managers and business owners think they own your brain from the minute you walk in the door and if your way of working makes them think you are being an independent person during work hours, you could have trouble. And if your way of working doesn’t jive with the company you’re with and you can’t get comfortable doing something else, find somewhere else to work. Immediately. That leads to the next realization.
Always trust your instincts. If you smell a rat when you meet a person or feel weird about a company, trust that. Yes you could be wrong and your first impression might be mistaken but usually not. Our brains are nothing but pattern-matching systems and if your brain starts making matches to experiences that give you a funny feeling about something, even if you can’t say exactly what it is, trust it. Our little pattern-matching computers have millions of years of evolution behind them and most likely doing something you feel weirdly about will come back and bite you in the ass.