Brad Bollenbach (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bbollenbach) wrote,@ 2007-05-31 10:44:00 |
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Not Hiring
90% of people live at 10% of their potential, choosing to work at jobs that drain their life force, choosing to be pulled along by the inertia of a bad relationship, choosing to pursue the degree their parents want, choosing to daydream up excuses for not taking action, choosing to zone out to "Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer" on CNN.
I've spent the last two weeks working on an application that, I hope, will help change that. I will have a first version out by July 1, at the latest, but hopefully much sooner. I left one of my main contracts this morning, while sipping on a latte in a Vancouver café, to free up time to work on this.
My vision for the kind of company I want to run has, for quite a while, been one of leading a small, one- or two-pizza team, design-centered, nimble, purpose-built for responding to change, radiating our culture of contribution and connectedness to an energetic and social user base. I guess that's a mouthful.
But I now realize that my ideal world company is one with no employees at all. The most important thing in life, to me, is the liberty to live how I want, and that kind of liberty is a function of time, mobility, and income. I don't want to manage or be managed. Authenticity and subordination, as Jean Baker Miller said, are totally incompatible.
90% of people live at 10% of their potential, choosing to work at jobs that drain their life force, choosing to be pulled along by the inertia of a bad relationship, choosing to pursue the degree their parents want, choosing to daydream up excuses for not taking action, choosing to zone out to "Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer" on CNN.
I've spent the last two weeks working on an application that, I hope, will help change that. I will have a first version out by July 1, at the latest, but hopefully much sooner. I left one of my main contracts this morning, while sipping on a latte in a Vancouver café, to free up time to work on this.
My vision for the kind of company I want to run has, for quite a while, been one of leading a small, one- or two-pizza team, design-centered, nimble, purpose-built for responding to change, radiating our culture of contribution and connectedness to an energetic and social user base. I guess that's a mouthful.
But I now realize that my ideal world company is one with no employees at all. The most important thing in life, to me, is the liberty to live how I want, and that kind of liberty is a function of time, mobility, and income. I don't want to manage or be managed. Authenticity and subordination, as Jean Baker Miller said, are totally incompatible.
