Venkatesh Rao has become my personal career guru. I’ve written about Ribbon Farm here before, but lately he’s gotten some significant play in the New York Times as well as other blogs about the transcendence to a different model of work and life. His ideas are wonderfully idyllic. But if the momentum from the last few days is any indication, we have the power to manifest tremendous change in our society. There are better days ahead. I can only hope that our professional lives follow suit.
His latest entry plots his development of a new board game (think Chutes & Ladders with a new media twist) that charts the ups and downs of working life in this Web 2.0 working world. If this had been in my arsenal of childhood pastimes (more career coaching, less Barbies), maybe I would have been better equipped to handle the trials and tribulations of my own work life.
Aargh, that’s scary. Way too much responsibility to be somebody’s career guru even as a joke
. I just talk about career/work-life stuff via reflection about my own sit-com of a life.
I suspect I’d be terrible at the helping professions. I don’t know how to make encouraging and soothing noises. If I saw somebody in a bad situation, I think I’d blurt out something inappropriate and unhelpful, like “dude, you’re hosed”
Still, thanks for the booster
Venkat