February 8, 2005

motivational poster

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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.

11 Responses to “motivational poster”

  1. Tim says:
    February 8, 2005 at 7:35 pm

    Haha nice. That’s up there with “Feed the poor to the hungry”.

  2. Timbo says:
    February 8, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    “The car­toon above would be a good moti­va­tio­nal pos­ter…”
    Only if you’re wor­king for the Bush administration.

  3. Angela Booth's Writing Blog says:
    February 9, 2005 at 12:11 am

    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.

  4. Jennifer says:
    February 9, 2005 at 12:57 am

    Hee. I’ve already got eight on my cube wall.

  5. plaidgirl says:
    February 9, 2005 at 2:02 am

    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.

  6. hugh macleod says:
    February 9, 2005 at 2:32 am

    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.…

  7. Peg says:
    February 9, 2005 at 2:52 am

    My ins­pi­ra­tion wall currently con­tains 17 cutouts. 4 of them are Hugh­train creations.

  8. plaidgirl says:
    February 9, 2005 at 4:31 am

    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.

  9. Foobar says:
    February 9, 2005 at 8:06 am

    You’ve seen the Demo­ti­va­tors, right? http://www.demotivators.com/

  10. hugh macleod says:
    February 9, 2005 at 10:19 am

    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.

  11. Peter Orosz says:
    February 9, 2005 at 3:44 pm

    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.