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Overqualified image from Teacher Training“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” -Yogi Berra How can you truly convince someone that you’re overqualified for a job? Consistently get the job done as efficiently as possible and over-deliver on whatever is asked. If you’re asked to build 10 widgets, [...] Proper Napping Position from Worst Case ScenariosIf you haven’t heard the term Boreout before, the best article I could find describing the topic is this one: Forget burnout, Boreout is the new office disease A typical “ideal” job is the intersection of the 3 circles “What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a [...] Several of my friends and I were frequently referred to as the “best of the best” the John Molson School of Business had to offer. This was typically said either in the context of our school’s coop program or business case competitions. Our university was even recently ranked as the top Canadian school in terms [...] New site on the blog roll: Freakonomics I remember reading Freakonomics while in Jamaica. If you’ve read the book, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the blog! Freakonomics makes you consider fascinating correlations as well as cause and effect situations that you may or may not have previously thought about. The most controversial one is most likely The [...] Earlier, I’ve mentioned that one of the things I enjoy the most about blogs and blogging is the interaction readers can have with the writer via comments. This is why I don’t moderate my comments and make an effort to respond to all of them. I’ve linked my blog to my Facebook profile, so my posts [...] It has come to my attention that because my Gmail account is connected to this blogger account all my posts (and now, comments) are signed as “Ian Selvarajah” rather than the1truecoolguy. I thought back to when RD discussed my choice of a nickname a while ago in this post: “I have spent way too much time wondering [...] Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keep leading us down new paths. -Walt Disney This weekend, I watched Disney’s Meet the Robinsons with my sisters. The movie ends with the quote above. The Robinson family’s motto was: “Keep [...] Obviously I’m late on this as the video already has well over 6 million views…but I had to share in case some of you haven’t seen it! I love how the older brother is so polite!! “Charlie! That really hurt!”Found via Heather’s blog Happy Valentine’s day!!! Given the day, the following incident is very appropriate. Thinking back to my post a while ago about lame pick-up lines, someone actually wrote the following via IM to one of my colleagues: “you should be in front of 10,000 cameras projected to millions of viewers, so that viewers can stand in awe of [...] |
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