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Re: Motivating posters for your startup

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Post by XaspR8d »

brini wrote: post #50
edw519 wrote: post #38

Don't mean to rain on your parade, OP. Just having a little fun... +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ | | | | | | | No room | | Tear down | | Posters | | for | | this poster | | & Posers | | posters | | and put up | | differ by | | in your | | another | | only one | | MVP | | white board | | letter. | | | | | | | +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ 18x24"-$26.00 18x24"-$26.00 18x24"-$26.00 +-…

> +-------------+ > | 00110010 | > | 11001011 | > | 10010110 | > | 10001001 | > | 10010011 | > | 01011001 | > | 01011001 | > +-------------+ Hex: 32 cb 96 89 93 59 59 Decimal: 50 203 150 137 147 89 89 ASCII: 2 Ë [not defined]x3 Y Y What am I missing?

Vertical isn't ASCII either:

  3c  23  40  57  2b  10  74  2f
I think it's nothing, pointing out we shouldn't be wasting our time figuring out useless poster puzzles that have little value to our work?

Re: Motivating posters for your startup

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Post by pasbesoin »

swalberg wrote: post #17
Thieum22 wrote: post #2

When I see those, I always remember the quote from Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister : "These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as…

My first thought was of the more cynical http://www.despair.com/motivation.html Motivation: If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.

I know that the word "hack" is over-used these days, so I say this with some trepidation, but when I first ran across the despair.com posters, I wast quite overwhelmed with the brilliance and success of their "hack" of the motivational poster paradigm.

Having spent a number of years in corporate life, often in offices spotted if not plastered with such posters, their parody quite hit home for me.

One I remember particularly well:

http://www.despair.com/burnout.html

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