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.

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11 Responses to “motivational poster”

  1. Tim says:

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

  2. Timbo says:

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

  3. 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:

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

  5. plaidgirl says:

    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:

    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:

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

  8. plaidgirl says:

    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:

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

  10. hugh macleod says:

    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:

    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.