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Pirates of the Caribbean
I’ll be the first to admit, that when I heard a while ago that Disney were planning to make a movie based on one of their Disney World rides, my first thought was “MAN, that’s going to suck.” I would like to announce that I was way wrong: Pirates of the Carribbean: The curse of the black pearl is an excellent movie! Not only is this one of the best action movies of the year, with all the necessary ingredients (lots of action, excellent special effects and a few laughs along the way), it also has that special something that really catches me: An intelligent script, and excellent dialogue.
And then there’s Johnny Depp. I promise you, you’ve never seen a pirate like him. Every scene that he’s in is interesting just because you can never quite figure him out – and because he’s wildly entertaining. Johnny Depp is one of the finest actors in Hollywood right now, and his performance takes this movie to a whole new level.
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Bionic office
Does the way your office look affect the way you feel at work? Of course it does, and Joel Spolsky knows this and has gone all the way in designing an office that is beautiful and functional.
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Photo blog
I don’t want to be the only kid on the block without a photo blog, so here’s mine. The newest couple of images are in the sidebar. It’ll be interesting to see what I can use this for. Just having a phone with a camera in it has already made me take a lot more pictures, as witnessed by this recent post.
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Road graffiti
Poetic, urban and beautiful: Copenhagen autumn road graffiti.
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The cult of the NDA
Frozen North has an excellent piece which argues that a certain level of openness (as opposed to total secrecy) can actually be healthy for startups.
This is right up my alley: I believe that openness and generosity (in many forms) is one of the ways to become happy at work – and to succeed!
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Heaven, I’m in heaven
I’m in book heaven: It seems that all my favourite authors have new books out right now. I just finished Chuck Palahniuks new book Diary, Douglas Couplands Hey Nostradamus! is waiting for me and, wonder of wonders, I walked into a bookstore today and they had Neal Stephensons new book Quicksilver which is a kind of prequel to Cryptonomicon. I’m 50 pages into it already, and it looks excellent – and best of all: There’s still 900 pages to go!
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Ideas needed for book
I need your help: I’m currently writing a book about happiness at work. The book is directed at both managers and employees, and should give the reader a better understanding of what makes people happy at work, as well as a lot of practical tools to use.
If you were reading such a book, what would you like to see in it? Drop me a comment if you have any ideas – good or bad :o)
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More happiness at work
The happiness at work project is really taking off now. We’re working on a lot of interesting things, and the newest development is that customers have actually started calling me up to arrange seminars and workshops. I just looooooove that.
This afternoon I have a workshop with a large european car manufacturer and on tuesday I’m giving a speech to 50 employees at a danish sports school. I’m really excited about this development – I’ve felt, that all we need is a few paying customers and some good references, and now we have just that. I think there are interesting times ahead, and I can’t wait to see’em.
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Pumpkinspiration
I had the pleasure of visiting aarstiderne on monday to see how they achieve happiness at work, and the visit and conversations were extremely inspiring.
For those not in the know, aarstiderne (the seasons, in english) deliver fresh, organic vegetables and other foods straight to peoples homes. Their mission is expressed in one word, “jordforbindelse”, which means grounding or being connected to the earth, and this permeates everything they do, including how they treat employees. Much of what they say on this topic you can also hear in other companies, but these people are serious about it, and show a true dedication to the welfare and growth of their employees.
I also got the grand tour of their headquarters and surrounding organic fields and forests, and the high point of the tour was – a compost heap. Aarstiderne also test and produce organic seeds in a greenhouse and all the dead plants end up on a large compost heap right outside. Since the compost contains pumpkin seeds, and pumpkins grow well on the heap, the whole thing has beautiful orange pumpkins groing out of it. Click more to see it.
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