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Frustration Friday: Another Reason People Hate The Unemployed

May 13, 2011 by Steven Savage

Yep, it's back to one of my Favorite Frustration Friday's (triple F) subjects – people who hate the unemployed. For those of you who haven't followed my previous rants, I'm very annoyed that some people are down on the unemployed. So now and then I take time to sound off on it for both personal reasons and to stimulate conversation.

It annoys me. It galls me. People need our help in these tough times, and yet many folks that are more mouth than brain seem to spend their time dissing them, not helping them. Having seen a lot of good people unemployed for bad reasons, this annoys me.

And this time I think I came up with another reason people seem to hate the unemployed – the unemployed are reminders that Things Are Not Well.

Weirdness Validates Itself

April 27, 2011 by Steven Savage

One of my favorites parts of the story of the Buddha is when, deep in meditation and approaching enlightenment, Mara, spirit of deception, who asks him simply:

“What gives you the right to do this?”

The Buddha then reached forth his hand, touched the earth, and the earth herself bore witness.

Innovation Is What You Don’t Do

April 11, 2011 by Steven Savage

Let's face it, my professional geeks, we love it. We also need it – hey, how many of us work to push the envelope or even get beyond envelopes entirely (we must not bow to the envelopes). For that matter, these days, innovation is needed both in a changing world and to deal with old ways of thinking and producing.

We are all about innovation.

The problem is innovation is often about leaving things behind.