Easy Green Bean Recipes
October 21st 2008 08:40
How's this for a nicely poetic phrase: easy green bean recipes? Doesn't it have a ring to it?
Don't ask me what it has to do with anything in the area of work, except, I suppose that it takes a bit of work to de-shell green beans. If you consider that necessary at all.
Actually this particular post is merely an excuse to inform people who read this blog but not my other Orble one, that there is another Orble blog. It's supposedly focused on things related to the Net, but like this one it strays from its primary focus not infrequently.
I've begun reading Seth Godin's blog (which brings me back to the topic of the other blog - Webitz.net - but not to this one. Except that Seth Godin works, so I suppose that's kinda relevant. (Let me know if I'm boring you here.)
Seth had something interesting to say about blogging in a recent post. (He was blogging in the post, but that isn't what I meant. In a recent post, Seth had something interesting to say about blogging. That's better.)
I quote:
That blog you've built, the one with a lot of traffic... perhaps it can't be monetized.
That non-profit you work with, the one where you are able to change lives... perhaps turning it into a career will ruin it.
That passion you have for art... perhaps making your painting commercial enough to sell will squeeze the joy out of it.
When what you do is what you love, you're able to invest more effort and care and time. That means you're more likely to win, to gain share, to profit. On the other hand, poets don't get paid. Even worse, poets that try to get paid end up writing jingles and failing and hating it at the same time.
What he goes on to say is that if you love something do it. Don't necessarily try and make money out of it. (As it happens, I do make some money out of blogging, though not quite the six figures some would have you believe is possible. The money I do make pays the odd bill, pays for books I buy via Paypal and so on. What's wrong with that? Nothing. )
Anyway, to leave Mr Godin and his musings behind, and return to green beans. Check out 'green beans' in the images section of Google. You'll be amazed at the number of
wonderful photographs there are. Obviously green beans are exceptionally photogenic. Here's one example I picked up off flickr.com. It's by 'unrulybadger.'
Don't ask me what it has to do with anything in the area of work, except, I suppose that it takes a bit of work to de-shell green beans. If you consider that necessary at all.
Actually this particular post is merely an excuse to inform people who read this blog but not my other Orble one, that there is another Orble blog. It's supposedly focused on things related to the Net, but like this one it strays from its primary focus not infrequently.
I've begun reading Seth Godin's blog (which brings me back to the topic of the other blog - Webitz.net - but not to this one. Except that Seth Godin works, so I suppose that's kinda relevant. (Let me know if I'm boring you here.)
Seth had something interesting to say about blogging in a recent post. (He was blogging in the post, but that isn't what I meant. In a recent post, Seth had something interesting to say about blogging. That's better.)
I quote:
That blog you've built, the one with a lot of traffic... perhaps it can't be monetized.
That non-profit you work with, the one where you are able to change lives... perhaps turning it into a career will ruin it.
That passion you have for art... perhaps making your painting commercial enough to sell will squeeze the joy out of it.
When what you do is what you love, you're able to invest more effort and care and time. That means you're more likely to win, to gain share, to profit. On the other hand, poets don't get paid. Even worse, poets that try to get paid end up writing jingles and failing and hating it at the same time.
What he goes on to say is that if you love something do it. Don't necessarily try and make money out of it. (As it happens, I do make some money out of blogging, though not quite the six figures some would have you believe is possible. The money I do make pays the odd bill, pays for books I buy via Paypal and so on. What's wrong with that? Nothing. )
Anyway, to leave Mr Godin and his musings behind, and return to green beans. Check out 'green beans' in the images section of Google. You'll be amazed at the number of
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