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21 Least-Clickable Internet Headlines

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These Very-Safe-For-Work Photos Of Accountants Will Not Blow Your Mind

Who Is Hollywood’s Most Mature Couple?

10 Insurance Adjusters Leave For Work: You’ll Believe What Happens Next

This Turnip Doesn’t Look Like Anything

Find Out What You’re Average At – In 12 Complex Graphs

What Vowels Have To Tell Us About Consonants

These Photos Of Airport Tarmacs Look Pretty Much As You’d Expect

12 Bus Stop Locations Last Week And Now

These Arial Shots Of Houston Traffic Are Incredibly Grainy

16 Songs That Mean More Or Less What You Think They Mean

10 Things You Already Knew About Mayonnaise

5 Pairs Of Twins Who Were Never Separated At Birth

What Guys Aren’t Secretly Thinking

10 Things Your Doctor Won’t Tell You Because They’re Untrue

Watch A Man Crack An Egg With Two Hands

5 Uneventful Airplane Trips In A Single GIF

Which Character From Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” Should You Hook Up With?

This Karaoke Version Of “Crazy” Is Just Like Every Other

Woman Reunited With Her Birth Mother After Trip To Costo

British TV Host Asks Perfectly Reasonable Question On Pre-Recorded TV

20 Climate Scientists Whose Initials Form Two-Letter Word

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Perfection: The Enemy Of The Better

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I enjoy minimalism. I’m also an advocate of it when it comes to personal growth – a little bit better at something or other over the course of your entire life and you’re doing pretty darn good.

Many people are impatient with small improvements over time because they have a perfectionist inside them whispering “If I can’t do a thing perfectly right now, what’s the point?” Whether the issue is saving enough money for retirement or getting married, the attitude is “It’s far too late for me”. And then a decade passes and you look at a photo of yourself from the present and think “Man, I looked great. If only…”

Perfectionism is ultimately a form of nihilism which allows it’s practitioners to say “What difference does it make?” And so your blog goes unattended for weeks (or months), you fail to finish anything you start, etc.

In a post-internet world in which the appetite for new information is constant, the costs of stinking up the place on a regular basis have never been lower. The world isn’t even riding on your success. That the world doesn’t care about your failures is a great consolation.

So you wrote what might be the worst serious attempt at a blog post in the history of the internet. (Consider describing it as such and posting it to Tumblr). So what? Life – and your work – go on.

When America’s Got Talent! invited me on their show I thought “Sure, why not?” I did entirely on my own terms, what more could I ask? The audience at the taping seemed to be mostly 13-year old girls. Not exactly in my wheelhouse. I went on to become the only performer on the history of the show to be buzzed off by merely describing my act.

The point is I don’t regret it: I don’t have time to.

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The Mills Of The Gods Grind Slowly, If Ever So Fine

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Imagine for a moment that you are the best in the world at what you do. So good, in fact, that employers don’t choose you, you choose them. After several years with a particular company (in which you brought it unprecedented success), you decide to leave the company in order to test opportunities elsewhere.

Then something unexpected happens: your boss publishes on the company website an angry, highly-personal letter condemning your decision, the manner in which you made it, and you personally. (You are called, among other things, a “former hero”).

Six years pass. Your former boss becomes aware that you are again seeking to bring your unparalleled expertise elsewhere and, despite the anger expressed in the letter (which inscrutably remains on the company website), passions have since cooled and – perhaps more importantly –  your former boss is keen on retaining your services once again.

Then another ten days pass before the letter is finally taken down from the company’s website.

What would you think of your former boss? Would you be inclined to return to your former employer? Even after the letter is taken down? Despite the blatantly cynical (if incredibly tardy) reason it was taken down?

More to the point: does your boss think you’re some kind of primitive to fail to see through your ploy?

Welcome to the world of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and his former-employee, LeBron James.

On June 25 of this year, LeBron James declared free agency (from the Miami Heat). On July 7 – six years after publishing the letter and ten days after LeBron again declared free-agency, Gilbert began to see the importance of taking down the angry, resentful, highly-personal letter. 

If you were in LeBron’s powerful position, would you inclined to return to your former employer? Do Dan Gilbert’s actions exhibit the qualities one seeks in a franchise owner such as prudence, maturity and foresight? (Note that Gilbert has made no apology for the letter).

It just goes to show you that being highly successful doesn’t mean you know a damn thing about the internet, social media or public relations, let alone screen-capture technology. More importantly, being successful doesn’t mean you understand that what goes around comes around.

It’s said that the mills of the gods grind slowly, but ever so fine. It’s a lesson Dan Gilbert will soon learn when LeBron chooses his next employer.

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