“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.”
— Blaise Pascal
A Clear Eye.
On marketplace success
by Tom Asacker
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.”
— Blaise Pascal
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Enough With the Blogging Already. Business is like so not interested. Check it out.
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Tom Ascacker points to Enough with Blogging Already from Darwin Magazine. The author Graeme Thickins pooh poohs blogging, big time. Among Thickin's reasons... Business doesn't do passion; business doesn't like gossip; buisness doesn't like doing public... [Read More]
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I found this article in Darwin a pretty interesting read. Titled, [Read More]
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Hmmm. I hate to say it, but the article reinforced many of my preconceptions about business. Id put it this way... blogging requires (at its best) openness, sincerity, informality, passion, and spontaneity. With a (very few) notable exceptions, business seems to favor secrecy, insincerity ("marketing" and "PR"), formality, hierarchy, control, obedience, and inhibition.
Maybe Im wrong, but that certainly describes every business I have ever worked for. For this reason I despise the word business-- I try to use other words to describe cool friends who are doing interesting things (that may or may not involve an exchange of money).
Cause as soon as those cool things are described as "business", the whole "curse of trade" (to use Thoreau's term) descends on the enterprise and all involved. Authority and control creep in. Greed takes over. Marketing replaces honesty. PR replaces sincerity. Money becomes the goal, the purpose, and the mission.... rather than merely a by-product.
And so business gradually poisons the entire process and all of the people involved.
Posted by: AJ Hoge | April 22, 2005 at 05:49 AM