Michele Pasin / Quotes

Creating a startup

Setting aside for the moment that the dream and the reality of running a startup are very different things and that many of those "ideas" are likely terrible, there is clearly a significant barrier that prevents millions of people from just walking out on their day job and launching a new company. And while there are veritable armies of entrepreneurial cheerleaders banging a drum and chanting "take-the-leap!" to any aspiring entrepreneurs who will listen, I believe that there are only a handful of situations in which it actually makes sense to walk away from a decent job to launch a startup. Having zero data to back this up and having made no attempt to find any, the following sources are what I believe to be the richest sources of legitimate startups. If you don’t find yourself in one (or more) of these categories then my money would be on you keeping your day job. Startups are hard… don't jump into one unless you really mean it.

Saved 26 February 2013 / www.siliconprairienews.com ↗

#jobs

Big Data and the bureaucratization of life

As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #big-data #technology #jobs #work

Career change: move forward not away

We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #beliefs #thought #jobs #situation #managers

Data science as a way out of academia

The most accessible job to a typical physicist cum programmer goes by the job title Data Scientist. It's also one of the more high paying jobs in technology…

How To Leave Academia #programmers #data-scientists #machine-learning #learning #jobs

Dopo il licenziamento, il demansionamento

Il problema di essere mandati via da un’azienda è spinoso. A trent’anni non è grave, si è giovani, si può trovare un’altra occupazione con relativa facilità…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #work #career #companies #jobs

Good jobs go to the proactive

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #proactivity #jobs #career

LSD and rejecting traditional mores

LSD influenced users to embrace the new counter-culture and reject traditional mores, jobs, and relationships.

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #counterculture #jobs #relationship