I recently asked which three tips you would give your boss.

Here’s a sneaky follow-up: What three tips would your boss and co-workers give you, to make yourself happier at work, if they could freely speak their minds?

Drop a comment, I’d really like to know.

Kevin Briody doesn’t want people to think that his products are good:

I don’t want their reaction to be a measured, rational, dispassionate analysis of why the product is better than the alternatives, how the cost is more reasonable, feature set more complete, …

I want “f**king cool! Period.

I want that pure sense of wonder, that kid-at-airshow-seeing-an-F16–on-afterburners-rip-by so-close-it-makes-your-soul-shake reaction, that caress-the-new-Blackberry until-your-friends-start-to-question-your-sanity experience. I want an irrational level of sheer, unfiltered, borderline delusional joy.

That’s what I want for my book. That’s it, exactly!!!!!!!!

Via Kathy Sierra who once again outdoes herself with the graphic she made for her post on this topic.

Do you think creating something that arouses this level of passion in your customers/users might make you happy at work? I think it might :o)

This is awesome: Last night I write a post that I could really use some help in evaluating my book on happiness at work. 12 hours later, almost 40 people have signed up to help. This absolutely rocks!!! This is why I blog.

I’ve always believed that everything we need is all around us – if we dare look for it instead of always struggling alone.

I have one more question for you: A cover. I asked the incredibly talented Lone Ørum to come up with something, and here’s my favorite of her suggestions. What do you think?

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This is only a draft, so the image is a little choppy. What do you think?

Alrighty – my book about happiness at work is aaaaaaalmost there. Now I could really use your opinion and feedback.

I’m doing my final write-through this week and I’m incredibly happy with it. Either this is a friggin’ great book or I’m seriously deluded. But why don’t you tell me which it is :o)

UPDATE: I’m totally blown away here, and I think over 40 people giving feedback is probably as many as I can handle, so I’ve closed the sign-up. Thank you to everyone who’s signed up to give feedback. I’m really excited about showing you the book and to hear what you think!

This monday my wonderful girlfriend and I are leaving for a short vacation in London. If you’d like to review this release candidate (nerd humor, I apologize) of the book, write a comment on this post. That way I get your email adress (don’t worry, it won’t appear on the site).

Then we’ll do it like this:

1. On monday November 6 I’ll email an electronic version of the book to all the people who’ve signed up.
2. You pick the one chapter that you find the most interesting and read it and give me feedback on it. You’re more than welcome to read the entire thing of course, but focus on one chapter so you can give me some thorough feedback on it.
3. Forget all about spelling, grammar, typos and punctuation, I’m going to get some pros to fix all of that.
4. Focus on the contents of one chapter, and please answer the following questions for me:
   • What do you really like about this chapter?
   • What could be better? Are there any holes in the contents or the arguments in the chapter? Something I need to focus more on? Some point I should elaborate more on?
   • Does anything seem redundant? Something I can safely cut out?
   • What is your overall impression? Is this chapter ready to go into the book?
   • If you were to write a three-line review of the book based on what you’ve read, what would it say?
5. Be honest. If you love it, say so. If you think it sucks, say you love it anyway :o) Just kidding – if you absolutely hate it or see something you don’t like, tell me – I’m a big boy, I can take it.
6. Write your feedback in the text document I’ll include and mail them back to me no later than friday November 10.

I’ll then do the final rewrite that same weekend and provided that I don’t need to make too many changes, the book will go out to proofreading the monday after and to printing later that week.