I'm an addict - need support !!

I am an addicting and trying to quit. I am micro blogging my de-tox experience on Friend Feed.

Kindly drop by and support my recovery :)-

The animal in me- will always LUV U !!

This is an awesome clip. I remember my old dog did the same thing, when I visited her after 2 years. Check it out.

True love begets true love !




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Rocket Boom Sold !!

This is news,  in it's most precise, concise and in pristine condition :)-

"Printed, signed, notarized, scanned, emailed, countersigned, received, printed, filed." - Andrew Baron

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Who am I and what I do ?

Funny, this statement of Hugh's  seriously caught me off balance.

" @peterdawson I've ben seeing you around for about 4 years. Besides obsessing about A-Listers, I'm not sure what it is you actualy do."

First response..just google me. But, on second thought its totally like me.  My life is a partially opened book. Additional info of me can be garnished from [ My Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin | MyWiki ]  Oh yes don't forget to Google me (PeterDawson)  for more information !! . :)-

Methinks, if you really wanted to something about what I do or who I am, you would have at least done some due diligence research on your part too.

What I actually do, is nobodies business and mine alone. If I wanted to share something in the social web it would be out there. Just because we chat on Twitter, friendfeed and other  media, does not mean that I need to open my professional and personal stuff to the world and to you.

Respect and Trust is earned and not freely given. Thats a philosophy of mine. So there, what's the next question ? 

A Shel vs Loren classic !

This comes from this thread.  It pretty much puts the whole kruffle in order !

"remember high school when the bully started mocking one of the academic team and the guy on the academic team decided to not ignore it, but kept bringing it up, so the bully kept on going? Same diff. Just keep walking down the hall and pretend you see nothing. - Cyndy

A Shel vs Loren classic !

This comes from this thread.  It pretty much puts the whole kruffle in order !

"remember high school when the bully started mocking one of the academic team and the guy on the academic team decided to not ignore it, but kept bringing it up, so the bully kept on going? Same diff. Just keep walking down the hall and pretend you see nothing. - Cyndy

Time well wasted - I cuss Hugh Macleod

I Don't believe this, I did it again !!

Ok somewhere in 2004/05 Hugh Macleod posted his "HOW TO BE CREATIVE" manifestio on Changethis.com. I had downloaded, printed a copy and read it in one sitting. Thereafter, I must have kept this copy and during my last move had placed it into a box for storage.  This afternoon, while cleaning up, I found this buried within a box of my hard copies  amongst the Tom Peters (TIB series), Seth Godin copies and a bunch of other hard copies.

Trust me, in the middle of packing, cleaning the last thing on my mind is reading his Manifesto. But guess what, "Its ok to be a sheep , as long as you are a  cool sheep"  cartoon catches my eye.  Oh well, darn Hugh, I get hooked once over again.  I spent like an hour once browsing thru the book again !!

Now me calls this TIME WELL WASTED by  Hugh Macleod. Refreshing read.   Can't wait for his new book !!

Ok back to the grind :)-

11 things kids will not learn in school

Oh this is good wisdom that  Steve ,  (a Black Ops' man for MSFT)  posts on Bill Gates and things that kids will never learn in school

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault; so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 :  Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

I still remember reading his book about and very few people realize that he finally got awarded his Harvard degree in 2007. Thats a long way off from the fall of 1973. Here's an infonuggut - While Microsoft was growing, in the first five years, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit. :)-

Failing is inevitable !!

I got this classic pointer from Niniane post.

"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." .

Take time to read J K Rowling commencement speech: "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. 

Medical Humor - US vs Rest of World !!

With this sort of medical breakthroughs I wonder how long our human race can survive!!!!!

An Israeli doctor says "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says "That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.

A Russian doctor says "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another,and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says "You guys are way behind, we recently took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House for eight years, and now half the country is looking for work."

black swan effect -mortgage crisis !

Francine has a wonderful  post about her friend. Scott Coles was one of the largest private lender in the Arizona mortgage  market space.

Due to the pressure of the  the mortgage crisis , he apparently committed suicide yesterday.  May he rest in Peace. My heart goes out to his wife and three children.

As he was a a high profile CEO, this gets a lot of news and traction in the blogs. This made me think- how many other's out there are doing the same thing, but just because  they are a  common person, it may go unreported and will not have this amount of exposure.  Think of about it,  10-15% of the American Population is going thru this crisis.

The Amercian dream has become  nightmare. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg.