Same thing here, so maybe my 2 cents can help;
Make three broad stages for every project (research & design, implementation, knowledge transfer & communication) and then undertake each phase as one project with its own challenges; that way I fool myself into finishing it.
In a "normal" situation then, youll get that someone whos always wanted the job as the first pick to fill it, wich makes the randomnized promotions all that much desirable.
Also, the stickness of the promotion in your comment, sounds pretty random too.
In the end, the proposition of "... using random processes to mitigate the pathological effects of deterministic models is extremely solid..." seems to hold.
What i wanted to know more about is (and i do now thanks to you): what does someone can sell, what does a business needs so bad that it reaches an outsider and pays him to get.
Also interesting, your take on the "consulting ladder", when i think about doing consulting, i try to find what could i offer, but i wasnt seeing it as a process to find your place.
Thanks a lot Daniel, as usual i got to learn something of what you say.
Very dense, the kind of book that a book geek writes.
When i read The DaVinci Code years later, it feeled like a very decaffeinated (really "de-lots of things") version of Foucaults Pendulum. It also feels like it spawned this sort of genre of history-mystery-conspiracy-airport-and-beach-novel.
What you mean by high-end? im asking because im looking into consulting as a career option, and want to know what people's doing.
Any hindsight will be appreciated.
Borges its great, i find his tales super-concentrated: one tale mentions people or stories that can spawn hundreds of other tales or biographies, and that leaves me wishing to read more of him to see if that story is told somewhere else.
I will. I took GEB and leave it 200 pages from the end, it is great but i keep feeling im not getting something. Im starting over now. And "le ton..." would be next.
These sporadic hn memes put a half-a-smile in me face.
The almost abscence of jokes its great for the noise ratio, but these outbreaks are great fun.
Thanks guys.