morsels 03.28.09 – the Allan sickness; jobs are the new assets
* There’s been an increasing number of people I meet along office hallways who tell me that they read the site. It’s both refreshing and unnerving at the same time — refreshing because I get to associate faces to my fairly invisible reader base, unnerving because I tend to want to remember all the rubbish I’ve been publishing that this person may have read.
* I’m feeling terribly under the weather these past few days. This is a chronic illness that I’ve had to bear every so often, and had reoccurred in intervals over the past few years — the latest one in November last year when I was in Cebu. The condition has earned much infamy with my friends that it’s even got a name: the “Allan sickness“, as Wilson calls it. Boo.
* A few weeks ago I chanced upon a Time magazine article, 10 Ideas Changing the World Now, declaring foremost that jobs are the new assets. While I have other thoughts about the subject, I have to say that my experience gets me to mostly agree with it.
“..the flagging economy has finally set us straight on how valuable our
work is. Too bad it has also made work that much harder to come by. So
often we don’t know the true value of what we have until it’s gone.”
Read the full article here.
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