Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Chchchchanges

Heyo, today a new mother was talking about the way her kid said heyo instead of hello thats so cute it melts my heart like a butterpuppy* anyway you may have noticed my blog is changed, and I've been posting regularly, even daily when was the last time that happened? why when I was supposed to be writing Episode 5. And now it's Episode 6 time. So yeah it's procrastination, but I bet the majority of people reading this haven't even lifted a finger to work on something they dream of or care about.
Scripts are good and vaulted away and been getting approval from everyone I need approval from and then some, some that I hate getting approval from and feel I'm in the same league as prop comics.
Anyway I set myself an unrealistic deadline to finish this episode and I have some pretty good ideas so I'll be getting plenty sleep deprived and not because I'm having sexiness with beautiful ladies.
I booked a time with my best friend today. That's a milestone. I wonder if I'll look back on these years and think about how productive my life was that I had to book something in that wasn't Dancing with the Stars? Infact right now the busy man dreams of domestic bliss.
Bryce works hard, he has a full schedule, he has to go to pointless meetings to make useless contacts just to find the few that will get him ahead. He has to do a lot of other work, and inject energy and shit.
I have to do three people's work and craftily argue with customers all day while getting random tasks from managers and people think I'm lazy including me because I do waste a lot of time at work. I only have four productive hours a day of real work, the rest is answering stupid questions and attending meetings and paperwork and copying.
I cultivated this image to try and get people to think more about flexible hours and lifestyle and to defy presenteeism. Because after hours I do volunteer work and have managed in just a year to get myself overcommitted. I got three organisations going on now all of which are linked to your left. (Although rew activities is just a shitty website for ESL school, the activities part get's no mention at all).
And FLN I'm volunteering in three facets of the organisation. So whilst I only work 3-4 hours productively a day (more than most) you then head to another organisation and do some more productive work because you never have enough time for productivity there. Then I have to cram, script writing and socialising into the days left in the week.
But I already shat on about how much my bleeding heart yearns for the loving that only television can give, what you should check out is this linked article on flying solo it's good, and people need to start believing in the four hour day.
Most of all industry is based on assumptions. Innovation is there to be had, but the biggest challange in the way of innovation is realising there's an opportunity to innovate. Not coming up with Einstein level physics proofs to make life more manageable and enjoyable.
Take the evolution of software for example. Most companies come out with a leading edge software package (like windows as a PC graphical interface software package) and over the years it get's improved by redisigning bits of the original and cutting things out, like michael jackson's evolution from black to white. Until it becomes an outmoded hideous monstrosity. Then someone in the industry just starts from first principles and builds something new. Like Eminem, I mean 'why even start with a black guy?' was the process innovation there. Similarly I hear Microsoft is starting from the ground up with the next evolution of windows.
So business and education and government and law all often work the same way, built on assumptions made by the previous model they will always carry irrelevant recessive genes through to the next incarnation. Like overtime in business, homework in education, campaign media in government and penetention in the legal system. You could ask why we do all that shit for each case and probably drastically innovate your world view at the same time.
So if you are at work reading this. Click over to the article linked above and start asking questions.
Thinking is not illegal yet.

*not to be confused with a butterdog, that is the dog used in some japanese porno** to lick butter off a naked girl. A butter dog is innocent and melty.

**I see a lot of dissapointed google hoppers finding this post now.

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