What money has become is.. a substitute for trust. It has now become our primary source of security in the world and what I am trying to do personally is to find my primary source of security in the friendships I have and in my local community and my relationship with earth. Because most countries, such as Argentina and Indonesia and currently Zimbabwe have experienced this hyperinflation and you can have a million dollars in the bank. One day with devaluation, it can almost be worthless. No matter how badly I behave, my friend’s don’t devalue me that quickly. And I think real security comes in our relationships, whether to it be with our planet or whether with our local community. I think what we all can do is build a bit more diversity in how we meet our needs and to not be so reliant on cash.

You can get the full interview at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TTBOOK/~3/X009WjbiqB0/tbk120205a.mp3. Segment with Mark starts at ~42 min.

You know.. funny thing about work, it has to get done!!

The guys were discussing about how their wives don’t understand the pressures of work .

Innovation doesn’t come out of love, but from hate

- Penn & Teller.

Brian Brushwood, quoting Penn and Teller in the 327th episode of TWIT (~1:21 hour timeframe). He goes on to say how, if you love something, you can only create a pale imitation of it (say a show or piece of art). But if you hate something, you create something that is better than the object you hate.

Profound

A human institution designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty

In other words, you don’t really need to work at a startup or out of a garage to be an entrepreneur. You can do the same thing in a typical corporate setting.

BTW.. check out this very cool conversation between Leo Laporte and Eric at 

You used to be a medium, when you started working here!!

And I was given a large..

Ouch ..

More tiers means more tears..

Keep it simple .

We decreased the execution times for our orders from 1.5 seconds to 5 milliseconds

This from an executive managing the technology organization for a large trading company. Imagine the geekiness in accomplishing this .

For every 450 smartphones that get activated a server is added to support them

This from an Intel executive. So if there are 500000 android phones being activated every day.. that’s around 1111 servers being added just to serve the android fans .

1 in 4 servers currently runs Linux

This from a Redhat executive. If anyone doubts that Linux is mainstream.. they are living under a rock

We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are

I believe this a famous quote.. don’t know who the original author is. But wanted to note, since it is a pretty deep .

I highly recommend Mark and his partner Mike’s podcast “Manager Tools” and “Career Tools” to every professional. Well worth the time.

Think of a 16 year old working part time at a retailer. She is just working to earn money to buy some lipstick or perfume. Think how you can motivate her to work on a thanksgiving weekend!!