Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Many is the time I hear people decry their failure in their careers. They will say they have skills (which they do). They will note they have passion (which they do). They will state they understand an industry (which they indeed do). Yet their careers aren't going anywhere.
When I encounter these situations, there's one question to ask:
"Well, how organized are you?"
You're a progeek, profan, protaku – or want to be. You're working hard your career, you're living your dreams. You're a pinnacle of potential – and perhaps are even realizing it.
Except people don't get it.
You know the drill. You meet people who figure that hobby of yours is useless. You have to explain again and again that you do actually get paid for what you do. You have people wondering why you "waste your time" on the things you love. Yep, it's the usual "how how can that make you a living" routine we're all sick of.
So, let me ask this: Are you going out of the way to communicate with your critics?
Crunchyroll continues to conquer the world, interesting movements in China's search market, and AuroraFeint is on a roll!
Career:
3 tips on formatting your cover letter.
Economics/Geekonomics:
Housing boils down to two strikes against it. Some nice exploration and graphs to keep you on top of things.
Creative class density from Richard Florida. A few surprises as well.
Anime and Manga:
Crunchyroll continues to add title again and again.
The Scanliation Wars continue as Libre serves several sites with notices. Libre apparently is putting titles on the Kindle, suggesting that their electronic presence is the reason for their sudden notices.
Mobile:
One in four adults uses mobile apps. Anything else need to be said? There's a big market there, programmers.
What Nokia's CEO should do. Some thoughts.
Social Media:
Social Media means new trends in Social Good. A bit of psychology and ethics to make you think about what social media is doing to change social good.
Technology:
China's largest phone company is making it's own search engine. This challenges one of it's competitors, Baidu, but also suggests, as we've seen, Chinese companies are working on building strong foundations for their markets. That means other companies may have trouble getting into the market . . .
Video:
Yahoo is putting it's TV widgets on some Toshiba products – We often forget but yes, Yahoo is in the video-internet-gadget market too. A subtle issue people may miss among all the other news.
Video Games:
Aurora Feint launches it's socialized game platform. It appears they're really on a roll – perhaps resume-worthy? Building a strong game presence now in the Android world sounds like a good strategy.
Bigpoint Games is hiring. You know what to do.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is China's Internet market getting locked down?