Idea: Rethinking the Resume
Think of a resume as a dashboard for your workflow rather than a static document of what you have accomplish (or claim to have). I originally came up with this in ’08 as a business to sell to LinkedIn – an approach being by VizualizeMe now 😉 .
- Graph is updated in real time – via social media presence rather than administrative backend. #accomplishment tag.
- Your roles are listed, in this case ‘author’ is selected and the timeline highlights when that took place, the showcase box is populated with proof of product.
- The world map highlights international experience by connecting nodes where you have worked while a heat map layer reveals concentrations, where you live, your network lives, etc.
- Timeline metic can be customized (for sales: $$$ amounts etc)
- Media can be as simple as Google news alert or a live webcam feed or a archive of video footage.
This could be useful in a LinkedIn context (though that company is way too stuck on the static resume format with a superficial application of social statuses). The graph + an introduction could help land a prospective employer.
Vastly more interesting in an open organization, where social is embedded in the DNA. You want to monitor social reputation? See who can do what inside a large organization? Inform your peers, colleagues, and even family as to what you’re up to? This is the way to go.
Review: City and Colour’s “Little Hell”
If you haven’t listened to City and Colour’s last album “Bring Me Your Love” definitely do so. It is flat out amazing. Dallas Green’s slightly twisted, kind of melancholy, but beautiful lyrics are meshed with a pleasantly fast-paced guitar in what can only be described as exuberance. Green’s happy to be singing, even if it is about despair or death.
Alright, that was a bit over the top, but it’s a great album.
Anyway, he’s got a follow-up, out now. It’s not as ‘deep’ as the last, and some songs struggle a little bit with, but there’s a very strong base in solid lyrics paired with great sound. Good, relaxed listening. It’s just awesome that he embraces the darker side of life but still sings his heart out about it.
For fun, here’s a great ‘edit’:
Apple, iTunes Match, and Piracy
System-wide versioning in Lion was announced today. That’s awesome. I’ve been wanting that in every application I’ve used (in particular working on my book). To have it across all of them is just flat out cool. And the resume feature really reinforces the truth that Macs just get the hell out of the way and let you get stuff done.
iCloud is kinda interesting for an individual. It’s amazing across a group though – small enterprise, but more practically, a geographically distributed family. Photostream would be great for grandparents who just want a steady, well, stream of their growing grandkids. Shared documents, calendars, etc.
Sidenote: It was a very lame move on Jobs’ part to embed Twitter (who the hell needs that?) but steamroll over a small business like Instapaper with its ‘read it later’ feature.
Anyway, today was as much about anti-piracy measures as anything else.
- Lion is only available via the Mac App store. No more serial-number-less CDs.
- iTunes Match. Apple will scan your hard drive (charging you $25 to do so), and match any songs (unlimited) it sells in iTunes across all your Apple devices. (256 kbps is lame though.)
Not altogether different from when a government asks insurgents to give up their arms in an amnesty agreement. ‘Certifiying’ a black market activity is a classic approach to countering its harms. This is pretty cool to see couched in ‘for your convenience’ language, and also positioned as a benefit that you pay for.
Review: Eddie Vedder’s ‘Ukulele Songs’
One of those albums that should be on vinyl. The individual tracks don’t matter so much as the coherent sound. No stand out tracks, but the whole thing is pleasant. Just aesthetically pleasing sounds while your brain is somewhere else.