Ascending Peculiarity

Relational being constructs of thought

4th of July (Got your Teabag handy?)

Ok now without the comments on the new teabagging scheme,  What are your thoughts on this?

One of the things I despise about  the bailouts was that it thrust business behavior into the spotlight as if we own the companies.  Now, we can debate the taxpayer/gov't help/bailout/takeover business until we're blue in the face and put XX company "paid how much for toilet paper" in headlines, but that seems to me to be just what some folks would want.   I don't know if I buy all of what Bob is selling there, but that is an interesting take on limiting the benefits of the seats in Washington.   That's got me thinking...    

Your multitasking mind

Lately, there seems to be a trend in business where folks are go back to the thought that if you focus on something specifically instead of trying to juggle many things at once things get done better/faster.   It's interesting to me that out of context it's odd how obvious that sounds.  So, do you think at some point the folks out there Ideating will apply some "Get-R-Done" philosophy so that IBM will stop making commercials making fun of them, and the folks flailing away at more than they can shake a stick at will find a way to focus in on roughly one thing at a time?   Have you found a happy middle ground?   Or is this just more of a deal where procrastination has risen to new levels with things where they are right now (Yeah, I'm looking at you Twitter, Facebook, ehm... Posterous) and when push comes to shove we have more deadlines converging at the same time?    

This will be a good week to test some of that out...

The article that started this thought:
http://xr.com/MTBrain
A bit short on references...

Success

On my way to practice last night a couple of talk radio hosts were talking about Michael Jackson, comparing his success to Elvis.  The host's basis of comparison was the number of records sold by each.  Man, even if you generalize that up to professional success that's a really small slice of what those two and hopefully all of us are about.   Think about all the different things you are to people. Each has a completely unique idea of who you are.  Now, maybe not everyone has a favorable opinion about you, but hopefully it'd be based on more than just one thing.  
Some folks say that being able to form an opinion by taking into account more and more observations is the true measure of intelligence.   Aplying that to our interpersonal relationships will certainly improve the impressions we have of folks we're around every day.
 
What do you think?
 
 
FTR: I don't think you can compare artists on the level of art or success.  They just are, and the work is everlasting.  You can relate your preference for them, but much more than that things quickly become an apples to oranges comparison.  It'd be like asking someone to rate baseball's leading batters of all time or compare the NFL's 1972 Dolphins' 14 win season to a team trying to accomplish it today.   The differences can be debated, but there is no direct comparison.  But that, as they say, is another story.