Thursday, May 07, 2009 - Posts

Thursday, May 07, 2009

a day in a life 2009.05.07

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:
  • 2009.05.07 19:27: @jdhunt
    Even if you love your job and feel pretty secure, you never know when you may need to send it out.
    i've been telling people that for fifteen years
  • 2009.05.07 19:43: @craigg75
    http://snurl.com/hjpb0 A trillion dollars in defense spending and we run from a pirate skiff? wtf?!
    if we had a self-contained economy etc., we could act with impunity. but then, why would we bother ?
  • 2009.05.07 20:16: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    Even if you love your job and feel pretty secure, you never know when you may need to send it out.
    i've been telling people that for fifteen years
    Yeah, I know you've said it to me several times. - and I listened. Mine has been mostly updated the past few years.
    of course, you realize that i haven't kept mine updated, right? ;-p i've seen too many resumes which were just another way to lie
  • 2009.05.07 20:39: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    Even if you love your job and feel pretty secure, you never know when you may need to send it out.
    i've been telling people that for fifteen years
    Yeah, I know you've said it to me several times. - and I listened. Mine has been mostly updated the past few years.
    of course, you realize that i haven't kept mine updated, right? ;-p i've seen too many resumes which were just another way to lie
    Just use Twitter as your resume. Post it 140 characters at a time. That would work great!
    resumes are best for mid-career; almost useless for entry level, and worse than useless for very experienced. but hr has its for ...
  • 2009.05.07 20:42: twitter stupidness (of many, i know): 140 characters - but if you use 141+, the last four are replaced with " ..." for 136 total. morons.
  • 2009.05.07 23:03: wtf is a "reefer" truck? http://tmblr.com see what typo's get ya...
  • 2009.05.07 23:23: trial follow of @Wadester23 & @ShadowShaman; bit heavy on the post frequencies, but interesting phenomenolgy stuff; early for followfriday
  • 2009.05.08 00:00: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    Even if you love your job and feel pretty secure, you never know when you may need to send it out.
    i've been telling people that for fifteen years
    Yeah, I know you've said it to me several times. - and I listened. Mine has been mostly updated the past few years.
    of course, you realize that i haven't kept mine updated, right? ;-p i've seen too many resumes which were just another way to lie
    Just use Twitter as your resume. Post it 140 characters at a time. That would work great!
    resumes are best for mid-career; almost useless for entry level, and worse than useless for very experienced. but hr has its for ...
    I agree they are useless for entry level. What would very experienced use? HR types need something to "quantify" experience
    fundamentally? references, demonstrable work product, interview by hiring mgrs. more like hiring a vendor, not an employee.
  • 2009.05.08 00:02: e.g., i'd prefer not to work with anyone who wants me to talk to hr droids first
  • 2009.05.08 00:03: this is probably why i see that happen to people passing mid-career. they seem to naturally become indie consultants
  • 2009.05.08 00:04: often, the jobs find them, not the other way around
  • 2009.05.08 00:04: yeah, a solid professional network is needed too
  • 2009.05.08 00:06: demands breadth of experience in many senses - single-cog-mindedness won't evolve
  • 2009.05.08 00:07: e.g. "programmer" v. "software developer" (with all its sub-disciplines)
  • 2009.05.08 00:08: i would prefer to provide prosspective customers with a collection of case studies, than, say, a c.v.
  • 2009.05.08 00:09: oh - and also, one's participation in the wider professional community - forums, blogs, whatever one's personal style is
  • 2009.05.08 00:10: sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
  • 2009.05.08 00:11: the goal should not eb "candidates who make hr's job easier"
  • 2009.05.08 00:12: i've seen what that leads to
  • 2009.05.08 00:14: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
    Smells like a blog post
    hey, i've said it before, twitter is just a conduit, this all lands on my blog nightly ;-p
  • 2009.05.08 00:14: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
    Sure, all of that is much better than a life-less resume. Sometimes bypassing droids is harder than it seems.
    yup; i've run into that. if the $$$'s not critical, i disqualify those
  • 2009.05.08 00:15: bottomline is there's ideals, then there's sucking it up
  • 2009.05.08 00:17: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
    Smells like a blog post
    hey, i've said it before, twitter is just a conduit, this all lands on my blog nightly ;-p
    So Twitter is your glorified notebook. Hey whatever works.
    sort of. on trial for the last couple of months. plus other reasons. there's a bog post that explains...
  • 2009.05.08 00:20: [stupid xo keyboard]
  • 2009.05.08 00:30: commentary on twitter: http://bit.ly/1600Qo ; and bits & pieces here & there in other posts
  • 2009.05.08 00:31: also, recently speculated on twiter's usefulness in looking at comm. phenomena in terms of emergence
  • 2009.05.08 00:34: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
    Smells like a blog post
    hey, i've said it before, twitter is just a conduit, this all lands on my blog nightly ;-p
    So Twitter is your glorified notebook. Hey whatever works.
    e.g., here's what a day on twitter turns into: http://bit.ly/nOuOS
  • 2009.05.08 00:35: eh, too much verbosity - back to vegging in front of the tube
  • 2009.05.08 00:50: @jdhunt
    Hope the rain holds off tomorrow. I'm itching to play ball.
    careful how you word that ;-)
  • 2009.05.08 01:08: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    sure, this is less amenable to droid-auto-handling, but that's the point - droid compatibility is a negative indicator
    Smells like a blog post
    hey, i've said it before, twitter is just a conduit, this all lands on my blog nightly ;-p
    So Twitter is your glorified notebook. Hey whatever works.
    e.g., here's what a day on twitter turns into: http://bit.ly/nOuOS
    That does have me wondering if a twitter client can be written that shows things as a threaded discussion.
    i got the rendering concept from tumblr.com
(pulled direct from twitter via custom job)
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