Recently I watched a video that blew my mind. The speaker Ricardo Semler runs a Brazilian company that makes hundreds of millions of dollars and yet has almost no rules at all – no set hours, location, holiday time, management structure, or business plan. Want to go to the beach or to see a film on a […]
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Ditch the boring people!
Posted by John on April 15th, 2014
I had some pretty cool jobs in my former career – special effects developer, European internet consultant, and others. And then I joined a well known global corporation but while the job sounded very impressive I wasn’t happy. Part of the problem was the people. Nothing wrong with them, many of them were very smart. […]
Are you ready for the death of the job?
Posted by John on January 29th, 2014
Last week, Google chairman, Eric Schmidt, issued a stern warning at the World Economic Forum. He said that the jobs problem will be “the defining one” for the next two to three decades because the constant development of new technology will mean more and more middle class workers losing their jobs. And as several other experts have stated, […]
Can you help me with my new book?
Posted by John on December 12th, 2011
When I was writing my first book Screw Work Let’s Play, I knew I loved writing it, I knew it felt like play, I knew I was doing the best job I could on it, and I knew I was writing about ideas that I thought were worth spreading. But I really didn’t know if […]
Postcard from Bali
Posted by John on June 15th, 2011
This is a copy of my email newsletter sent at the end of a month living and working in Bali. The wonderful thing about creating your own business today is that you can design it to be portable. All you need is a laptop computer, a mobile phone, and a WiFi connection, and you can […]
Mythbusting: “I’ll get lonely working for myself”
Posted by Allison McCafferty on August 23rd, 2010
This is a guest post from Marianne Cantwell of Free Range Humans who is collaborating with me on some very exciting projects around Screw Work Let’s Play to be revealed soon. Why working for yourself doesn’t mean working by yourself You’re a people person. You don’t want to be holed up at home everyday, with […]
