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One (or 90) After 909** Today's entry in the OCD

One (or 90) After 909**

Today's entry in the OCD files ...

Almost 1,000 days in my current run of Headspace app meditations ... as kid #4 said 'that screen shot is so aesthetic and satisfying' ...

PS: the 16th anniversary of me abandoning TV was going fine ... until I heard about the release of The Beatles 'Get Back' this week ...

** For the trainspotters, the title today riffed from an early Beatles tune, allegedly written about 9 years before its release, namely 'One after 909' and as I understand it would likely feature in 'Get Back'.

View a version by Paul McCartney, live at The Apollo Theater, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV3QDC5NxM

PPS: partial inspiration for Killing the Television, Ned's Atomic Dustbin. View here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sYekDaEj48&ab_channel=phattphucks

PPPS: if you haven't already, you should try meditation ... it beats sitting around not doing anything

Time you made a cool change**: burn those fuggin'

Time you made a cool change**: burn those fuggin' timesheets!

This year, after around 1,000 years, the Austrian village of F&#king changed its name to 'Fugging'.

Assuming that professional service firms first started filling in timesheets in around 1950, what odds it will take another 929 years for them to be abandoned by all?

** the title today riffed from the Little River Band and 'Cool Change'.

View here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk&ab_channel=Earthstudy

The CCS: No need to wait ‘forever; (get the asse

The CCS: No need to wait ‘forever; (get the assets) now’**

Photo today of the proof, providing proof, that (subject to a few nuances) one of View's most popular education topics will soon be a published book.

PS: The CCS is one of the 27 approaches explored in our new book; 'CCS' standing for the 'Cold Chisel Strategy'.

** for the trainspotters, the title today, riffed from the Cold Chisel classic 'Forever Now'.

View here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhnp3td-UHU&ab_channel=ColdChisel

Terminating (X-it)** Timesheets: It ain’t Rocket

Terminating (X-it)** Timesheets: It ain’t Rocket Surgery (sic)

Steps we took to stop filling in timesheets:

1. step 1: stopped filling in timesheets; and

2. step 2: refer to step 1.

... & yet (at least as far as #BigLaw is concerned) the arguments why the above steps simply can not be true so often sound like the following summary set out in the full article linked below.

Warning however: If the theory underpinning (time billing) begins to sound worryingly like the sort of thoughts that would make you edge away if conveyed to you by a stranger on a park bench then you would likely be right.

The time billing universe is one whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances from us and each other, we don’t currently know and don't know if we will ever know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

In other words; the basis for justifying time billing is the stop on the knowledge highway where I, like I suspect most of us, must get off.
PS: re the sic ... yes; appreciate that it is either 'rocket science' or 'brain surgery' ... as opposed to 'rocket surgery' ...

** for the trainspotters, the title today is riffed from the Public Enemy song ‘Bring the Noise’.

View the version with Anthrax here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1hgXfX5-U

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