SubscribeSo are there any real qualifications for this job? I’ve thought about it quite a bit over the last few weeks. And the only clear almost un-negotiable one I could come up with is that you have to be a guyNice.
My superpower is getting things done. I am The Producer.WOW what a unique skill set! Of course, since she has a set of rich and well connected friends she'll probably have no trouble getting a job. Fried Wilson, a well known venture capitalist has said he'd hire someone with a "Seth Godin MBA", for example.
I like to create things. I have a whole closet full of fabric. I own crayons. I have every color of paint they make. I am good at matching.
And the only clear almost un-negotiable one I could come up with is that you have to be a guy. A guy who’s been in a serious and stable relationship for a significant period of time. That’s it. Every boss I’ve worked with well has met that criterion. Weird, huh?What a ridiculous criteria. If she were actually hiring someone, rather then looking for a job, this would of course be completely illegal, both on the gender (obviously) and possibly the relationship requirement.
Can anyone tell me how the memory of these people is served by taking the land from the owners to build the memorial? It's an irony that the people on Flight 93 died trying to protect others, but the land owners find themselves entirely without protection as the park service makes a land grab.Talk about making a category error.
The best part? (Outside of getting to hang with Seth for six months, that is.) - The part where Seth says this is going to be about practical application of (drum roll) stuff I'm actually interested in!! I work with accountants right now. I've tried to read books on financial reports and corporate finance. Just can't make it through because that's not where my passion lies. I want to dream big. I want to grow our firm's internal community. I want to find new places to share my thoughts.This falls perfectly in line with her critique of Google judging applicants based on their GPAs. Her passion doesn't lie with stuff like learning how things work - she wants to hurry up and tackle those big, vague-ass dreams. I think you'll have a hard time attaining what you want if you don't have a clear idea what that is, though, and getting there usually involves learning some mundane, time-consuming details. Sucks, yeah, but oh well. You can always write self-help books.
"I am guilty of being impatient with the journey. I want to be there already. I'm still pushing for a four-day work week in our office. So I love the idea of something short and intense so we get to where we're actually using what we learn."
Great for Google for setting standards for hiring. But a GPA requirement for anyone not straight out of school (and maybe even then) slices your pool of potential employees down to those who are good at school, spent college with no social life or under-challenged themselves...(For the record, I meet the requirement on both of my degrees. I am very good at school.)It's a new world now. Google imposes a GPA requirement in tandem with a school requirement. No offense, but while you may be New Mexico State University good at school, I'm not sure if you are 4.0-at-MIT-or-Stanford-in-a-hard-science good at school.
Bio: Fulfilling my generation's mission to question everything. Heavy doses of questions, social media, books, marketing, quilting, indignation and Squidoo.Seth Godin is a cancer.
The best part? (Outside of getting to hang with Seth for six months, that is.) - The part where Seth says this is going to be about practical application of (drum roll) stuff I'm actually interested in!! I work with accountants right now. I've tried to read books on financial reports and corporate finance. Just can't make it through because that's not where my passion lies. I want to dream big. I want to grow our firm's internal community. I want to find new places to share my thoughts.So, she couldn't be bothered to learn finance even though that was related to whatever it was she was doing at the time? Or no she couldn't make it through the material, but not because she was dumb but because it wasn't where her passion lay.
Having said that, I seriously doubt the Google application reads "Name:_______ GPA:____" and that's it, so I don't understand why she singles out asking for a data point that many, many companies have asked for over the years.From what I hear Google is pretty anal about GPAs even long after you've graduated. I've heard stories about Marissa Mayer turning people down for promotions because of GPAs they earned long ago. Kind of ridiculous. I'm sure if you do something amaznig, like start a company they buy that would probably work too. But everything I've heard is that they are very GPA focused and prefer to hire from "top" schools like Stanford, Yale, etc. (even though, ironically those ivy-league schools are more likely to suffer from grade inflation, or so I've heard).
Next, don't try to control the power in your job search. That's sounds empowering and all, but really it's bullshit and we know it to be so. You have no power because you need someone else's money.It really depends on the economy and the field. And who you are. Look at the happycog "application" to hire them. It looks like it would take hours to fill out and you don't hear back for two weeks.
Marketing is a science, like finance, economics, chemistry and physics.Bullshit. Name scientific fact in marketing. What repeatable experiments can you do?
The only difference is that the science of marketing has the error rates of 18th century physics.And what was the "error rate" of 18th century physics, exactly? And by the way, back then physics was a part of "natural philosophy" and the word science simply meant systematic knowledge; it didn't refer to any kind of specific methodology. There was no "scientific method". Of course, a lot of what we now as science was being hashed out by 18th century Natural Philosophers. But still. Marketing is not a science.
"Her unique skill is getting things done, and she wants a place where she can exercise that power to the fullest."I don't know if I should laugh, or cry. Oh, wait a minute. Bwahaha.
I don't know if there are facts, but you can run multiple version of an ad and determine which one gets the best click-through rate. You can measure campaign spend over time and compare results versus costs.When I said "scientific fact" and "repeatable experiment" I was referring to the same thing. A Scientific Fact means "If you do experiment X you will always get the result Y". That's the same thing as a repeatable experiment ("If you repeat this experiment, you will get Y").
Fifteen years ago, someone coined the term, Eternal September. Because each September sees an entire crop of freshman showing up at college, you need to assume that you have to start teaching protocols all over again. Once a year, it's a whole new audience, and they need to learn the ropes.And all I can think, looking at this, is "Dude, you are part of the Eternal September." Because I am a nerd who was hanging out on the proto-Internet long before AOL connected to the Net, and September never ended.
In 1998, Godin sold Yoyodyne to Yahoo! for $30 million[5] and became its vice president of direct marketing, a position he held until 2000.Ah! No wonder he gives me the jibbles; no wonder the site of one of his proteges kinda creeps me out! Marketing.
Without the producer, the executive producer is just holding meetings with people, but no movies are made. Without the producer, the director has nowhere to shoot, no film and no costumes. Without the producer, the actors never get scripts and have no trailers to crash in.And yeah, this is true. I worked in the animation world, I saw what happens when you have an ineffective producer. But there's one thing Susan's missing: all the really effective producers were there because they gave a shit about the medium, and wanted to be involved in making awesome cartoons - even though they couldn't draw to save their lives. Susan just wants to do... stuff. If she has any goals of her own they've been totally subsumed to "making something - anything - happen!!!".
The producer gets things done. Without the producer, there is no movie.
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