Individuality

Its easy to get caught up in what others or society thinks is important/positive/successful/cool. I think the truth is its important to do things that make sense to you, regardless of whether or not they are true for others. This sponsors innovation, creativity, peace, and maybe social change. Who knows you might be happier bucking the trend, creating a new or breaking an old stereotype. Someone has to set the trend, why not it be you? But not for trend's sake, for your sake, and perhaps others will enjoy it too... Not always easy to find friends/family/employers that support this. "Too much creativity gets in the way of productivity." Organizations should ideally maximize creativity, minimize organizational structure, while still meeting and exceeding the end goal. I think this makes any organization's solutions more robust. Tried, tested, from all angles and walks of life. Structure allows you to manage/monitor quality and performance. How do you ensure quality and productivity without organizational structure? Trust. When hiring, you have to trust that a person is motivated. Trust that they can produce. Make fit a more prominent goal. Create an employee satisfaction department. Serve the employee and they will serve you. Make there no reason not to produce in every sense. Go beyond company environment into personal and private environments if necessary and welcomed. Is there a company so good that someone would never want to leave? Can there be a company that can serve the employee in all aspects so that they don't have a desire to leave? Perhaps companies can facilitate a person's calling? It would be a win for everyone- company eliminates inefficient, lower productive or less ambitious employees, employees find professions where they ARE all of those things. The other company gets a great new employee, and society benefits from more innovation or better service. I think the next level on quality improvement is people. Improving the quality of people working for you- not necessarily educating them, but finding the right ones, and removing obstacles for them. The productivity and innovation potential of cultivating more Einstein's or Newtons, or Welches, or Gates is enormous. I believe there is greater good in helping more people achieve thier potential in everyway. No education program can match the power of enabling or motivating young stars to reach thier potential. Theoretically it is impossible. You can only teach as much as is currently known. But helping a person unleash the drive, the creativity, the motivation and the way, allows you to blow the cap off of possibilities. If we could measure the rate of innovation, implement a plan to focus on removing barriers to success (every kind and combination) and see how much the rate of innovation increases would be phenomenal. It may come down to changing culture. A culture of happiness, individuality, creativity, benevolence, equality has an insane amount of potential in changing the world. There are too many obstacles, many of them dealing with culture and individual circumstances that prevent people from acheiving thier potential. There is no value in homogeneity. Heterogeneity allows people to compare, contrast, and improve ideas, and technology. Diversity is an asset in anything. For example say Google is a great company, and they indeed happen to have all of the smartest most innovative thinkers there are. Products might be great, but the lack of market competition would hinder innovation in other areas such as price, or even technology. Lack of reasources creates innovation to benefit the greater good. From necesity is born innovation. Diversity is natural and it will always exist. The best thing to do is to use it and support it. It makes for happy people. Happy because you are useful, and happy because your individual beliefs are supported. Organizations and Countries should be more organic and have fewer barriers. This is all dependent on trust. The more trust in the benevolence of people, the more we can accomplish to benefit oursevles. We are wasting time fighting, whatever it is that each of us fight...

Music

Its good and underated.

How do you find it?
Anyone?

Fuckit

I think there are a legion of people who would benefit from using this title as thier motto.
really? its probably not worth it. Rather than drugs (prescribed pill kind), i propose fuckit clubs
not necessarily fucking but come to think of it, fucking wouldnt be bad either
but i mean a group of people who get together, bullshit, complain, and collectively decide to-- fuckit
not necessarily endorsing drugs
like:
-oh tommy, life is so hard man
-tom, dude, just fuckit
-pfffeewww, here, take some...
well come to think of it, that might not be bad either
so as long as the group's second motto is moderation
everything in moderation
givin up is cool
givin up may give you second wind man
tho thats a trickly road
anyway
fuckinit gives you clarity
perspective
release
and renew-tion
no, still not really talking about actually fuckin but fuckinit
do what you want
when you want
believing this, atleast wont make you mad
may fuck you in other areas, but honestly, those areas might not matter the most
if ppl cant get over stupid shit you do, then fuckit
dont need em
lifes all about stupid shit
society makes it wrong
nature makes it reality
and theres nothin wrong with the au-naturaal

Clear

Last night for some reason i had thoughts that i thought were pretty big. It felt i was figuring stuff out and things were becoming clearer. Haven't felt like that since i got high back in undergrad. Anyway, right before going to sleep, i was thinking about how i got to sleep (watching tv, or with comp in bed, many things going on around me). I think watching tv makes you think less. I would bet that the brain waves are real low when ppl watch tv. I think that helps me to shut off my mind (at least from traditional thinking). Without tv, my mind just keeps on going (sorta like it did last night). I think about work, my life, the temperature, what to do tomorrow, deep thoughts, annoying thoughts, any thoughts. Its as if i now need to fill in empty space to keep from thinking. I think thats why im hooked on tv before bed. Its like a mental addiction similar addiction to any other drug, except potentially not as directly chemically based. Perhaps people who are able to fall asleep without any distraction are more mentally fit. Things are are peace in thier mind, or they are just used to being able to "turn off" when needed. Thats impressive. I think i'd be more mentally fit if i didnt have distractions like tv and internet. Force me to deal with thoughts maybe? Talk to real people, have real fun? I imagine living life in india in my village- not that you cant get tv or internet there, but we didnt have it in our house. Makes you kinda live a traditional people interactive life... Anyway, it would be interesting to talk to a sleep doctor and see what goes on in making people fall asleep. I bet tv for me induces the same drugs to be let into my brain as the ones that are prescribed as sleep pills. At least i would hope so. If not, the sleep pills are making you sleep in a round about potentially harmful way (think alcohol induced coma- ha). Anyway, i had another thought, but it was closer to me falling asleep so i cant remember it. It was good though.

The Case

With work being so dagone stressful, and me being at work at the moment I probably shouldnt be blogging.

The is a man however, on our floor (maybe) who is down right nasty. He leaves monstrous dumps, with toilet paper everywhere. On the floors, on the seat, in the bowl, on the handle, everywhere- and doesnt even flush or clean up. Some other guys on the floor (not in my office) decided to write him a note- basically calling him out and tellin him to clean the shit up. Very next day the note is ripped up, and a stinging fresh new deposit with 30 trees worth of toilet paper is back- even worse than before. Lately its been good- no poops, no papers. But recently (yesterday) i was in there when a man came in the stall next to me (the same one of the dirty pooper)- 5 minutes of lining the seat with TP go by and say to myself, I GOT HIM! I will wait out this bastered and find his identity. I'll be the Hero of our floor- we can drive him out- banish him forever. better yet, not tell him we know its him, but rather give him dirty looks on the elevator and in the halls. make comments to drive him crazy- you know amelie like. i stayed in there, devoted to the cause
but then...
the light goes out
we were in there so long, the automatic timer on the light went out!
i sit
he sits
no words
whos gonna bail
after a while i couldnt take the uncomfortableness
i clean up in the dark, wash my hands and get out
he should thank me for letting him poop in light
but i dont give up
fortunately the back door to our office (haha) is in a direct line of the mens bathroom
i go in, and leave it cracked
peeking to see who it is
wait
wait
wait,
then finally the bhais comes out- its a jewish guy from the copy machine company
i got him!
I GOT HIM!
i go back to check the damage
but...
nothing
clean
not crystal clean, but clean
flushed
no TP
nothing
though he did break the paper towel dispenser and throw it in the trash
(i could hear that from all the way down the hall)
he might have seen me peaking but i dont care
but other than that..
Nothing!
a dead end
all that work just flushed down the toilet
it was pretty dissapointing
but i still have my suspicions
maybe it was him
but he knew i was on to him
so he behaved
maybe it was someone else
originally my suspicion was someone not on our floor
just didnt want to believe someone on our floor could be such an ass
this guys behavior (throwing the paper towel dispenser- well, half of it- into the trash) is pretty pro nasty pooper
either way, if he knows i know
im glad
i'll be watching him
and if he acts up again
i'll give him a swirly he'll never forget