February 8, 2005
motivational poster
The cartoon above would be a good motivational poster…
Yeah, I’m thinking more about that business.
An obvious Hughtrain tie-in, wouldn’t you say?
Doc Searls once decribed me as, “Dilbert for people whose jobs don’t suck.”
By the way, I sincerely don’t mind people downloading my images, printing them out and sticking them on their office walls. In fact, I rather they would. Good PR and all that.
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A wee chuckle to start your day off right etc.
Haha nice. That’s up there with “Feed the poor to the hungry”.
“The cartoon above would be a good motivational poster…”
Only if you’re working for the Bush administration.
Giggle of the Day: Do I look like a charity?
Writers get asked to do a lot of free stuff. If you’ve had a bellyful of requests from people who don’t understand that writing is WORK – it takes time, energy, commitment, and it’s TIRING, you need Hugh’s motivational poster.
Hee. I’ve already got eight on my cube wall.
but… aren’t you afraid here of being dismissed as cheesy or cliche? that’s what most of those motivational posters things say to me. they say “look at me, i’m a lovely piece of mass-produced inspiration, aren’t i awesome?” i don’t really buy it…. but i guess some people do.
But I want to be a lovely mass-produced piece of inspiration…
[NOTE TO SELF:] It isn’t selling out until you’ve found a buyer Bwah ha ha ha ha ha….
My inspiration wall currently contains 17 cutouts. 4 of them are Hughtrain creations.
i guess i just thought this whole hughtrain thing and ‘improving the conversation’ was less about that sort of commercialism. perhaps that’s just my naive perspective though.
You’ve seen the Demotivators, right? http://www.demotivators.com/
Sure, Foo. Demotivators was talked about in the last post on this subject. Though not for long.
Plaidgirl, just because their product is cheesy, doesn’t mean my product has to be.
Although I might make it cheesy anyway, just to keep ‘em guessing
I mean, can you imagine anything worse than if I got into the whole sincerity thing? “Hugh MacLeod, the Michael Stipe of Corporate life.” Yeegads.
Haha, a couple hours before you posted this, I took a printout of “being totally fucking amazing is Job One” and slid it behind the glass on a poster of our company’s ISO 9001:2001 certificate. It’s a bit more to the point than the legalese meandering I partially covered up.