[p2p-research] Order .. is boring

[Michel Bauwens]

in my experience, this is how high-paid consultants work, lots of free time
and permanent learning to be able to zoom in once there is a contract, with
one day paying for five ... this is partly why they are so expensive, the
other reason is that each consultant can rely on a staff of assistants

Michel

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:36 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> For a long while now, maybe several years or even decades, I lost track, I
> have lived in relative self-enforced chaos simply because I get very bored
> with predictability and routine.
>
> Obviously, to get paid (the kind of money I used to get paid) I leveraged
> my expertise living in chaos to launch creative transformations at the
> companies I worked for.
>
> But at some point I could no longer take it anymore and decided to live for
> the moment .. .and during that transition I wasnt working for anyone for a
> couple of years and eventually found myself homeless and now back working
> for someone although with more freedom at lower pay
>
> I find myself spending 80% of my time thinking out loud, debating, and
> expressing myself through the things, ideas, music, etc that I find funny,
> interesting, odd, awful, etc
>
> And yet I find that what I do in the rest of my time (the 20%) is
> infinitely more magical (in this case iPhone development, working on several
> apps at once) in that the time I supposedly "waste" allows me to make huge
> evolutionary leaps in the design and ideas
>
> So it's the opposite of what Google allows their employees to do (they let
> them dedicate 20% of their time on their own projects - or at least they
> used to) ... I think letting employees dedicate 80% of their time to
> whatever they want to do and 20% to the task they sign up for AND then
> giving them full freedom in designing the product or solving whatever
> problem AND have their salary be based in large part on the success of the
> product/solution in the market then they would have breakthroughs every
> single day, IMO.
>
> If I ever was to get funded again and build an R&D team that's exactly the
> approach I would take.
>
> It makes sense to me. I'm not sure it makes sense to anyone else.
>
> Just wanted to share it and see if anyone else is living in the same state.
>
> --
>
> Marc Fawzi
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