SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
“I had a period after I left a restaurant I was working at,” Redzepi said, “where everyone treated me as if I was a stranger to them. *Leave. Stay away. Now we’re competitors.*That kind of thing. And it was a terrible experience. It was just a terrible experience. And I promised myself never to be that. Never to create that experience for anyone el
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It’s funny we don’t think of employment experiences as UX, but they are, and perhaps the most important of UX experiences.
The writer Jorge Luis Borges said, “A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose…All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape ou
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Long before he made movies, after he dropped out of community college, Cameron spent about ten years working low-wage manual labor jobs. He was a truck driver, a school bus mechanic, a high school janitor, a precision tool and die machinist, and so on. “It was a long period of frustration for me in this kind of blue-collar life,” he said. “I was fr
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The more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.