Here’s for a merry, peaceful Christmas with your closest ones!
Big thanks for making 2008 special, and see you again in 2009! (It will come sooner than you’d expect…)
- Jarkko
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The field of media is changing. And it is doing so on multiple levels at once:
Old media, such as newspapers and magazines, are quickly losing ground to the Internet as a whole. It’s not doing so without a fight.
At the same time, blogs are winning ground from the old kind of non-blog Internet content. But the web sites (such as the sites created by traditional media companies) are not giving in without a fight.
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It has been almost two months since my previous post on this blog, so I thought it’s about time to make an update and talk about what’s been going on during that time. A lot has happened, both online and inside my head. And even more is about to happen as time goes and I get all my plans put into action.
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When sitting inside my safe four walls, working on my blog posts, I often forget that not everyone is this fortunate. When I share my dreams, I forget that there are people who couldn’t even imagine dreaming of such things. When I lament on my busy schedule and not being able to spend as much time home with my kid as I’d like to, I forget that there are kids out there who need to work days far longer than my eight hours.
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I have tried to predict the future many times. And looking back at my success rate it’s rather clear that predicting is not something I’m very good at. (Luckily, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I’m not the only one — you suck at predicting just as much as I do!)
Predicting the future is hard. It’s pretty much beyond the capability of the human mind. But still, we love to do it.
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Just a bit over a year ago, Glen Allsopp was an 18-year old guy from England, working in a job he hated, doing college courses that bored him to death, and running his own business part-time. In my books, that’s already quite an achievement for someone that young.
But it wasn’t enough for Glen, who wanted to plug into his real identity and live his life to the max. So, he took a job in South Africa, left his old life behind and moved to a whole new country far away from everything he knew.
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Right after posting my previous batch of insanely interesting links, I found out that Glen Allsop had founded his blog. Because he’s a great guy, I promised that in my next update, I would link to him.
Well, it wasn’t really because of that. Sure, he is a great guy, but his blog also speaks for itself. His posts truly deserve every promotion they get. Well, now it’s the time for that update.
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What do you do if you are a fanatic blogger and athlete who wants to use those talents to leave the world a bit better than it was when you got it?
When faced with the question, Mark Hayward decided to go ahead and start a non-profit project to combines these interests: “Getting fit + social media + blogging = social good.”
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I have all these serious posts planned out. They have nice titles, I’m doing some heavy research on them, and I hope they will make a difference in some of our lives.
But today, I don’t feel like working on any of them.
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Do you know why it’s so hard for a sushi cook to start a new restaurant that mixes sushi with Russian blinis? According to The Medici Effect, it’s mostly because of association barriers inside the chef’s mind: he is just too used to looking at the world through his specialized sushi master eyes to see the opportunity.
It could also be that sushi and blinis don’t match. But that’s a different story.
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Hi, and welcome to my blog.
This is a temporary version that allows me to post my thoughts with more ease than the previous one, while I'm working on a completely new JarkkoLaine.com (to be launched in early 2009)
Don't forget to check out Insanely Interested for my longer, in-depth articles about curiosity, creativity, and being a Jack of all Trades.
