[p2p-research] Order .. is boring

[marc fawzi]

That does make sense, Michel.

I guess I'm in transition to that model.

I always thought that it takes a certain personality for this path to be a
most natural and inevitable one, but maybe it's a much more universally
desired path than I thought.

I'll elaborate on how I ultimately arrived at this model and what I had to
do to get here... that is once I get to the next stage in the transition...

Thanks for this enlightening feedback.

Marc

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
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