Acland Brierty has a great post on his blog about the difference between talent vs. skills & experience. He does a demonstration that I think hammers home why it’s so important to get talented people rather than the ones with the most skills, experience, or the fancy degrees.

My favorite quote:

Just yesterday I met a marketing lady for a large public company who ridiculed blogging as a marketing concept and pointed out that she had 10 years experience and had never heard of blogging… I pointed out that maybe she had just one year experience in marketing and had done it 10 times. My point was her degree and experience doesn’t necessarily mean she has a talent for marketing.

Classic.

It’s actually starting to look finished.

I just got a Logitech Harmony 676 remote. It was up and running my multi-brand home theater system in about 25 minutes from opening the extra-difficult-to-open plastic package.

I especially like the activity buttons on this thing. Press the “Watch TV” button and it sets the TV to the right input, the reciever to the right input and turns everything I need to watch TV on while shutting everything off. Hit the “Watch a Movie” button and it switches the inputs for the DVD changer and turns the TiVo off.

Best part, no macros to program. The Harmony software does it all for you.

Very nice.

So, today I took the PDPWorks survey for my employer. The spiel is it’s going to tell me what my inner and outer selves are like and uncover everything from my leadership style to what color underwear looks best on me… (kidding about the underwear thing).

In any case, I tend to view these psychological thingymajigs with some degree of skepticism.

Well, at the end of asking you to rate a bunch of atttributes about how you view yourself and how you think others view you (or something like that), this thing spits out a long report that has a bunch of nifty graphs. The weird part?

It’s pretty damn accurate.

Some of the things it said:

• I’m dominant.
• I like people and being around them
• I communicate fluently and succinctly
• I’m driven and I like to pull people along with me
• I get really frustrated when process seems to get in the way of progress

And a lot more… but that’s the gist. It also says I should be successful at what I choose to do.

Maybe it’s time to work on Big Max…

I don’t watch this show. Maybe I should. I’ve watched this video five times and I laugh my ass off every time.

http://www.fox.com/tradingspouses/

Click on “video.”

“She’s NOT A CHRISTIAAAAAAAN”