Getting people to work as hard as I do and do great quality work is really, really hard. People try to do the minimum work to skate by, nickel & dime me on every little thing, and miss deadlines. I have been thinking hard about how to better motivate people to do good work:
You have ideas?
If current technology was used correctly, teachers would become an artifact overnight. Through my personal experience with our educational system and extensive discussions with others about their experiences, I think most people only had 3-4 really good teachers out of approximately 70-100 teachers in K-12.
We have the technology right now to bring the very best teachers in each subject nationwide to each and every student.… read more “Live School Teachers are an Artifact”
Yahoo’s CEO stood up to Michael Arrington of Techcrunch in a powerful way.
I bet Yahoo employees will work that much harder after seeing their CEO stand up for them.… read more “Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: Very, Very Smart”
Five minutes ago a spammer posted a comment on my site entitled “Mom-Son Incest Videos”. I regularly get comments like this on my website that I have to delete. Privacy provides the protective umbrella that allows spammers to operate on the internet with impunity and shields the child molestors who make videos like this from justice.… read more “Change Privacy Laws to Stop Child Abuse & Spam & Criminals”
Yale students & admissions officer put out the following video ostensibly to convince people to come to Yale, but in reality making sure no one but tools and douchebags attend.
This movie goes on and on and on…. 17 minutes of the worst music video ever created. They tried for campy ended up in hell.… read more “A Good Reason Not to Go to Yale”
State & federal government regulation of medicine is utterly ridiculous. Such regulation leads directly to abuse by special interests groups (mostly doctors advocacy organizations like the AMA or insurance interests groups).
Consider the case of chiropractors versus physical therapists. Due to the fact that mainstream medicine shuns chiropractic care (it’s not based on the scientific method and instead claims metaphysical properties), chiropractors have set up their own separate branch of healing that competes with regular doctors. … read more “Government Regulation of Medicine is Ridiculous”
Nick and I are launching a new website, NWMortgageExperts.com today. If you are interested in getting a home loan or mortgage or refinancing your existing loan, contact Nick! Options include:
I am excited about this new site and think that it will bring a lot of value to people in the Seattle, WA area.
The CEO of my company (Dan Vetras) has a great idea for personal/business goal setting: doing it in on a quarterly basis. Every three months at a prescheduled time, he reviews his performance for goals he set 3 months ago and then sets new ones. He told us that he does in his personal life as well as for each division of VT.… read more “3 Month Goal Setting”
The recent proposals to nationalize healthcare have finally galvanized freedom-loving Americans to protest. The last few years have seen so many rights and freedoms taken away from Americans through idiotic programs/policies like Cash for Clunkers, the Stimulus, the bailout, the Patriot Act, and others that I thought most Americans had surrendered entirely to socialism. All of those programs though are much smaller steps to a communist nation than nationalizing the healthcare system.… read more “Rage on Nationalized Healthcare”