Category Archives: Personal Development

Your Job Is Obsolete

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The job that a lot of people who read my blog do, didn’t exist yesterday.

I’m amazed when I think my job didn’t really exist thirty years ago (video game developer) and I’m working with people (social network community managers) whose job didn’t exist three years ago.

Next year there will be jobs and job titles that do not exist today.

Flip that around.

How long until your job no longer exists (again)?

What would you do if you knew your job was going to disappear in three years?

I don’t mean you are going to be laid off, or fired, or just quit. Whatever it is you do for a living, and hopefully know how to do really well, what would you do if the world no longer wanted that?

Quick Reality Check

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How do I know the nonsense you are peddling isn’t real?

There’s two simple tests that I can perform to find out.

The National Geographic Monks in a Monastery Test

Has National Geographic done an expose about a group of Tibetan monks living in a remote monastery somewhere concerning whatever mysticism you’re pushing on me? No? Then it probably isn’t true.

The Idiots On Youtube Test

Are there any videos posted on Youtube with one or more teenage idiots using whatever the mystical nonsense is to cause other people grief or causing themselves to be injured? No? Then it most likely isn’t true.

If whatever it is you are telling me fails both of these tests, I can say with a good degree of certainty that it’s bullshit.