No takers?
July 4th, 2006No one cares to guess why I chose a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday schedule for blogging, starting this summer? I thought ONE member would immediately know.
I’ll keep waiting.
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July 4th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Mark:
I know you travel a lot. My wife was once a flight attendant and thus I can appreciate the demands of traveling for a living. So, I’m going to suggest your work requires you to travel on Sundays, Mondays and Fridays, the heavist travel days of the week for business travel. Therefore, your schedule allows you the most time to write on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. This would also give you ideas for topics to write about since you will have spent these days (at least Tuesdays and Thursdays) meeting with clients. You can provide M-T “real time” discussions based on your activities with managers you’ve interacted with on these days.
July 4th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
If it’s not Sex in the City reruns on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sunday (just joking) - is it football (watch on TV mon), Fri (you live in Texas so football again ie Friday night lights), Sun. Church. I can’t work out the Wed?
July 4th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Football/baseball season ??….Just a guess…..
July 4th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Does this have anything to do with the Star Trek project by MacIntosh in 1992 1993? There was going to be a Star Trek version of MacIntosh. I just can’t figure what the other “T” stands for….
July 4th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Ok,
Here’s another stab at this. If the Other Way Works just Fine, How about Star Trek Trilogy (S T T) is just done backwards.
July 5th, 2006 at 11:28 am
I’m going with you’re a Jimmy Buffett fan…
G.
July 5th, 2006 at 11:51 am
[…] I also note on their site that Mark Horstman, who’s management writings I learn a lot from, has posted that he’ll be posting more regularly - specifically, on “Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays”. THE first thought through my mind, I must confess, was “Buffett fan?”. Mark wrote a post yesterday commenting that no-one had guessed the reason he picked that blogging schedule - I’ve just left my “guess” there. I guess we’ll see. […]
July 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
There you go Gary! I’m a Buffett fan. HUGE Parrothead.
For those of you who don’t know, Jimmy Buffett (who is famous for “Margaritaville”, only tours in the summer, and he plays on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. It’s so much ingrained into his fans that he named one of his live albums after the schedule.
Of course, one thing I’ve learned is that stuff like this doesn’t travel well internationally, and I’ll have to be more careful. Kudos to Shiva for guessing!!!
Nice work, Gary.
Mark
July 5th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Okay, now for the Star Trek reference.
From the Startrek.com website:
As the U.S.S. Enterprise prepares to leave the area without finding the missing shuttle, the Galileo (shuttle) manages an unsteady orbit around the planet, but is unable to pull away from its gravitational pull. Knowing it will send them crashing to the planet’s surface if his plan fails, Spock ignites the remaining fuel (by turning on the power TOWARDS the planet). The U.S.S. Enterprise sees the meteor-like flare of the burning fuel and beams the crew aboard as the Galileo disintegrates in the planet’s atmosphere. Later, Spock stubbornly insists that his desperate act was not a human instinct to gamble, but a logical Vulcan approach to their problem…
Essentially, Spock does something that appears illogical, but if all else has failed, illogical things “become” logical, or at least worth trying.
Rest assured, I don’t know any other episodes…but the guy who sent it to me made a big impression on me.
The point being, we’re not paid to be logical, or illogical. We’re paid to achieve results. If what you’re doing is not working - and in this case that’s true for me - try doing something that doesn’t make sense.
Probably a little out there as far as a reference… but give me a break. I’m doing this new blogging learning in real time. I hope my candor sends a message about manager’s needs to have a little more “open kimono” thinking, rather than the standard “I only tell you what you absolutely need to know” mentality.
It’s sort of like Horstman’s Law #3!
Mark
July 6th, 2006 at 2:06 am
Nice Work Gary. It’s time for a Margarita
July 6th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Thank you, thank you
I stop /just/ short of being a Parrothead; but Buffett’s stuff is pretty much always on my playlist. I /can’t/ work to it though - it just makes me want to head out into the sun!
July 7th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
I know why and have listened myself. Pretty Cool!! Time for a margarita H?
July 7th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
It’s ALWAYS time for a margarita!!! Thanks for being a member Sparky!!!