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Re: Champagne Candy

rmpenguino — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:19:02 -0000

Mostly heard really good research and methodology coming out of the positive psychology field. Actually have been drawn to the positive psychology paradigm of researching what makes us happy and healthy, instead of the typical psychological working model based on maladjustment alone. Obviously more reading and research is in question, what books and researchers provide better comparison and evaluate positive psychology against more established subfields?

Re: Save Your Job – How To Be Proactive About An Unstable Work Situation

rmpenguino — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:02:50 -0000

Your advice is very prescient about the thoroughness with which one should approach the hiring process. Been applying the first three steps, but kinda neglected mastering the industry even through it is a natural growth of the previous items. Seems to me mastering the industry is the last step inoculation to job loss, consolidation of one as a resource. Fortunately or unfortunately networking might still hold more sway than any other step. Perhaps that is why starting a blog appeals to me, as you point out it gives me a platform to host conversations and by proxy expand the networking opportunities. Of course the hardest part will indeed be deciding the focus of my blog, and what part of my interests or corporate persona to project. Will definitely keep an eye out for what you and others in similar situations are doing to best realize our dreams. Thanks for the advice and personal response. Wish you the best.

Re: Job-Hunt Challenges Felt First-Hand: After 37 Interviews I Gave Up (AJC)

rmpenguino — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:25:56 -0000

Insightful article because it points to what will probably be a future trend, more contract and freelance employees. Been through the interview ringer and luckily found something before savings really started to take a hit. Noticed through the whole process that it was more about mentioning the right keywords, and fitting in with the culture than actual experience. Ironically actually working for Turner right now and in similar uncertain future. Me thinks this might be the time to make myself more invaluable, but also start venturing into personal entrepreneurship. Now in the last year of college this out of pocket investment is kinda uncertain because corporate work is less stable and rewarding. Would be nice to hear how successful you become in your private ventures, if perhaps it is more rewarding than fulltime corporate work or at least more educational than what you would have been getting in the college classroom.

Re: To Obama: I'm not an ATM (Scripting News)

rmpenguino — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:06:55 -0000

Hopefully these examples from politics and public radio are behavior patterns from the last century. Believing that citizens, customers, users, etc only need to vet your legitimacy through whatever applicable means, falls short of fully engaging them in the process. Politically it trivializes supporter involvement, as though those people in the campaign or cabinet are the only ones worth listening. Because activists, thinkers and trendsetters are passively involved or sidestepped altogether the control remains centralized, but so does the influence and scope of personal engagement. Although supporting Obama and public radio as well, it truly is sad to rarely, if ever, feel genuine engagement and ownership with those causes. Perhaps what we both want are candidates and public services that ask for more than just money. Perhaps what we all want are causes and presidents that ask more of us than just to dig into our pockets and shop. Perhaps what we all want is just to for once truly participate and belong to those causes we make our own.

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

rmpenguino — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:20:12 -0000

Tom Watson at http://tincorporated.com already made a similar home brew solution for himself incorporating several services. Seems like these API hooks into the services are decentralizing assets on Delicious, Flickr, Twitter, etc so if either side ever failed there is a backup. Perhaps a step further would be a peer-to-peer architecture hosting all these assets. So if your comments went down, the conversation could still continue throughout the blogosphere in a decentralized Disqus. Right now Disqus has decentralized the conversation, a step further would be the hosting.