Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear

One of our favorites, Hugh MacLeod (author of Ignore Everybody), is coming out with a new book: Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear.

Just added it to our to-read list.

What’s on your to-read list?

Summer Reading Booklist

Fend off ”brain drain” this summer with our recommended summer reading booklist.

What we’re reading this summer - 

Sandra’s Summer Booklist

Lisa’s Summer Booklist

The Secret to Job Security

After reading Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod, I subscribed to his gapingvoid daily cartoon emails. Saw this one recently about job security.

Stuff happens. Budgets get cut. Companies and organizations close down. Pink slips are given out.
The secret to job security: there is no job security.

At the end of the day, it’s about your skills, knowledge and experience. It’s also about people – who you know and who knows you. It’s about your network. 

And we’ve got some stories that demonstrate the power of the network –

• A colleague told us she landed a job through a connection on LinkedIn, shortly after an informational interview with someone from the organization of interest.
• Someone contacted me about a potential job opportunity through a conference program proposal that I had submitted.

What’s your story? 

Ignore Everybody

 

Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod is inspirational for anybody in a creativity rut or feeling zapped of ideas. Filled with illustrations and sound bites of sage advice, MacLeod keeps it short and sweet.