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		<title>Each Day &#8211; Day 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Restore Facebook settings!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[trevorpercy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just jokes, kids. There&#8217;s no way to make Facebook look like it did before. Would you like to know why? Because they figured out a new way to design the site that accomplishes one, maybe two goals. The second goal is to make a better user experience. A better user experience according to them &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just jokes, kids. There&#8217;s no way to make Facebook look like it did before.</p>
<p>Would you like to know why? Because they figured out a new way to design the site that accomplishes one, maybe two goals.</p>
<p>The second goal is to make a better user experience. A better user experience according to them &#8211; because it&#8217;s their site. And they can do that because it helps goal number one.</p>
<p>Goal number one is making money. A subgoal of goal number one is making even more money. It&#8217;s important to to remember that you use Facebook for &#8216;free&#8217; because Facebook is selling your information to advertisers. Shocking, right? No.</p>
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<p>Love,</p>
<p>Trevor</p>
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		<title>Since You&#8217;re Gone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[trevorpercy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So Weezer has covered a great song by The Cars for Pixar&#8217;s Cars 2. (both parts are a big deal in my house right now). And it made me think of my favourite song by The Cars. For the record, if you don&#8217;t like the cars, you&#8217;re probably doing it wrong. There are both psychological [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>And it made me think of my favourite song by The Cars. For the record, if you don&#8217;t like the cars, you&#8217;re probably doing it wrong.</p>
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		<title>No one likes a control freak, Darth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Darth Vader, I totally get that you wish you would have been a little more hands-on with the construction of the Death Star. Especially at the end. My guess is that you feel like if you didn&#8217;t take your eyes off the prize, things would have been different. Probably a lot different. I totally [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Darth Vader,</p>
<p>I totally get that you wish you would have been a little more hands-on with the construction of the Death Star. Especially at the end. My guess is that you feel like if you didn&#8217;t take your eyes off the prize, things would have been different. Probably a lot different. I totally get that.</p>
<p>So now we find you here, personally supervising over half the construction of your Lego fleet. And with those angry eyes? No one wants to work like that, nor should they have to.</p>
<p>Admit it. It&#8217;s sad. Not just for you, but for everyone. What&#8217;s happened to you, Darth?</p>
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<p>If you want to get back to the way things were, you have to trust people. Just a little. No one likes a micro manager, Darth. No one like a control freak.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome.</p>
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		<title>Be Resourceful</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[trevorpercy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[August long weekend. Always a lot of fun. Sometimes you have to fend for yourself though. I&#8217;ve been around for long enough that I&#8217;m not company anymore. And sometimes I get thirsty. For beer. So here&#8217;s a collection of tools I used to open beer that weekend. Tada.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>August long weekend. Always a lot of fun. Sometimes you have to fend for yourself though. I&#8217;ve been around for long enough that I&#8217;m not company anymore.</p>
<p>And sometimes I get thirsty. For beer.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s a collection of tools I used to open beer that weekend. Tada.</p>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m self-employed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[trevorpercy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m self-employed. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about two reasons that I really love being self-employed. Years ago, I worked in an office that had an Open House to show people the new building that we had moved to. So we were setting up for guests to arrive and the radio was on. Wham&#8217;s Careless [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m self-employed. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about two reasons that I really love being self-employed.</p>
<p>Years ago, I worked in an office that had an Open House to show people the new building that we had moved to. So we were setting up for guests to arrive and the radio was on. Wham&#8217;s <em>Careless Whisper</em> came on so I did what any sane person would do: I cartwheeled across the office to turn the radio off. As I turned it off, my boss stopped me. Here&#8217;s the conversation that took place:</p>
<p>Boss: What are you doing?<br />
Me: Uh, turning the radio off. <em>Careless Whisper</em> was on.<br />
Boss: TURN IT BACK ON. That&#8217;s my favourite song.<br />
Me: <em>Careless Whisper</em>. That&#8217;s your favourite song?<br />
Boss: Yes.<br />
Me: Favourite song. Ever. <em>Careless Whisper</em>. Really?<br />
Boss: Yes.<br />
Me: You mean the Wham song. With the long sax solo. Favourite song ever?<br />
Boss: Yes.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>I realized that I couldn&#8217;t work for someone whose favourite song was <em>Careless Whisper</em>. I also realized that I couldn&#8217;t really trust any other humans enough to work for them. Not if these were the kind of choices they&#8217;d make. I couldn&#8217;t risk it.</p>
<p>So the second reason is also music related I just realized.</p>
<p>The year was two thousand and one and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkvpuOebd88" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Madonna&#8217;s video for American Pie</a> (I linked to it, but it&#8217;s sure not good) was released. For me it&#8217;s an awful video for a really awful song. And let&#8217;s be clear: Madonna has made some crazy good music for decades. <em>Decades, yo</em>. Not many people have made crazy good music for decades.</p>
<p>From the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia entry</a> on the song, Madonna is quoted as saying:</p>
<p>&#8220;It was something a certain record company executive twisted my arm into doing&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Madonna. Forced to record a cover of Don McLean&#8217;s masterpiece. And cover it by making a truly terrible pop version that she didn&#8217;t want to do.</p>
<p>Okay, if MADONNA can be made to do stuff she doesn&#8217;t want to do, what chance to any of us really have.</p>
<p>For me, I once had a position that included looking after the six-or-so websites in the company I worked for. I had a conversation with the vice-president that I reported to where he said that websites weren&#8217;t really important and they never really resulted in getting any work. So you&#8217;re thinking &#8216;so this was in 1997, maybe that made sense then.&#8217; No, this happened in 2008 web-friends. And a few months later I left that job. Not that surprising looking back.</p>
<p>Not completely sure what the point is here other than this: if you can and want to work for yourself, do it. You can&#8217;t really trust people if they&#8217;re going to love <em>Careless Whisper</em> and deny that websites are good to have.</p>
<p>Next time your boss tells you to do something that goes against the part of your brain that wants you to do creative work, when they talk, just imagine that sax solo coming from their mouth. See how fast you can type a resignation letter.</p>
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		<title>A lot of syrup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I took this when visiting family. There are two people in the house. Two people. Five bottles of syrup. Adam Smith. Where&#8217;s your invisible hand now my friend? Not slipping into this fridge, is it?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I took this when visiting family.</p>
<p>There are two people in the house.</p>
<p>Two people. Five bottles of syrup.</p>
<p>Adam Smith. Where&#8217;s your invisible hand now my friend? Not slipping into this fridge, is it?</p>
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