More than a living

So, I’m watching some gangster flick the other night. Basically any gangster flick. Pick one.
At some point in the movie, someone will go and do something dumb. And then the heavy will decide to spare the idiot’s life but revoke all of his “privileges” for a certain town.
Take Marsellus Wallace and Butch Coolidge from Pulp […]

In the second of a semi-regular interview series on people who love their jobs, I spoke with Kevin Rasmussen and Vivian Su, a husband and wife team running their own small architecture firm. They have worked to create a lifestyle that blends doing what they love, with caring for their two small children in a […]

if your company found out you were blogging at work? (This link was live, but apperas to have been pulled.) What if you found out your employees were blogging or reading blogs. Instead of doing their work?
Would you get iFired?

For many of us, working from home holds a great deal more appeal than sitting in a noisy–or worse yet, deathly silent–cube farm, day-in, day-out.
I know that I’m more productive here than I ever was in the office. And I hear many folks echoing the same sentiment. And when you cut the commute down from […]

When Toby and I started scribbling the ideas that became More than a living, we were trying to find a way to describe the business ennui in which we both found ourselves seemingly irrevocably ensconced.
Part of that cathartic process was giving our goal a name. That concept was “more than a living.” That’s what we […]

If you haven’t heard of CultureRx, it’s worth a peek.
This consultancy, which came out of Best Buy, works to put focus on the results of work efforts for professionals instead of measuring the sum of hours that are spent by employees in the trenches. Called “ROWE” for Results-Only Work Effort, this group is evangelizing […]

This single sentence at itzBig Blog really got me up and running this Saturday morning:
“There was a time when people had the opportunity to spend the majority of their lives working in one industry or even working with one company.”
Do you really want your father’s job? Or your grandfather’s? I can’t say that I do, […]

And apparently into the cafe.
Web Worker Daily points us to a growing trend for startups.
For those of you with that entrepreneurial bent, rejoice! You are no longer relegated to the garage. No more secret startup. Now, you can be out in the open in your favorite Starbucks, rattling off your overly-caffeinated ideas among the […]

(Hat tip to Kathy Sierra for Creating Passionate Users: Rhythm method)
One of the problems with driven employees is that they think they should be working–all of the time. I know, because I think I should be working all the time.
But here’s the thing: there are going to be down times. Times when no work gets […]

I was reading my first monthly magazine from Investment Advisor, a subscription offer that had peaked my interest, though I sit outside their target market. (Since I think about one’s career as perhaps their core asset in their investment portfolio, it made perfect sense to take a look at this magazine that targets the advising […]