EPTFinal Thoughts on the entire business writing - Page 2
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
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Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
nice blog and good luck with everything | ||
c3rberUs
Japan11285 Posts
In all seriousness, I'm glad you still blog here. I haven't read every blogpost but the ones that I have, (still halfway through this one) I enjoyed reading. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51436 Posts
Glad i caught this, glad you posted. I for one will miss hearing your business adventures. I still have aims and hopes you will release some memoirs or just fuck it and write a full biography  But i would just take a few short stories if you ever had time when you are greyer and older! Would you wish you did it the other way round right now? Started being the entrepreneur you are now 20 years ago? Then moving off into a high paid executive job after being headhunted to wind down too? I don't know why but stopping the business blogs seems to be you saying you are done chasing big dreams? I don't know just what i get from it i might be very wrong. You have been in the business sector for 30 years now right? 6 years of that on your own. Those 6 years were harder than the previous 20 i would imagine? Oh well im rambling as it's hard to put into words in so few characters as i don't like wasting your time haha! Just keep being Mighty Atom thats all we care about  | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32026 Posts
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DarkNetHunter
1224 Posts
Obviously it became a necessity to take out some of the details as you stated, but I don't think that makes many of your blogs too vague to be of any use. The other question is of course if you can talk about past business interactions that no longer impacts any current stuff and talk about your thought process on different items there or if you're worried it'll come back to bite you again. Remember DotA2 and CoH have nothing on playing some BGH in SCBW :d Hope to see more blogs, purely for the thought perspective they offer. Also just remember some of your hilarious and awesome ones on more general subjects like how to clean a shirt in a hotel emergency or the business travel one inspired by up in the air. Keep up the writing, TL still has enough old peeps left who appreciate you and new people who can pick up your great blog! | ||
MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 29 2016 14:38 Nerios wrote: I'd love to have the chance James had... Or be him if he is the complete package, minus the dumbass aspect of course. Your blogs have served me as inspiration and knowledge at some point in my life, not to it's full extent yet. Maybe at the start of my next circle I'll come back and read them again to use them to their full extent. I also dream of victory by annihilation, that victory where I crush my opponents rip their hearts out and eat to my heart's content. Instead of being a damn caterpillar... some day, just some day... Anyways, great blog as always, TL is also that old friend for me which you haven't speak to for a long time, that you can get along with very easily if you had time. Sadly life moves on and somehow the gamer inside me slowly fades, but somehow I still come back after long absences just for the blogs or when I feel the urge to revive that excitement felt from watching the finals of some tournament. Best of luck to you Atom, and Fighting! Everyone is a dumbass at one point or another, but intensity always makes up for time wandering. But ain't nothing like that kind of victory, but for that always happens when you 'leave nothing left for the swim back' ala the movie gattaca -watch if you haven't ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 29 2016 15:48 Thaniri wrote: Interesting, I am one of those new users who started reading your posts within the past 5 years (join date March 2011.) However, I never felt that your blogs belittled me, but rather inspired me to do better. The fact that almost everything I've read from you has been a business blog doesn't mean that that is what I take away from it. When I read about your social interactions between other people I simply look back on my past and want to kick myself in the face with a steel toed boot. I've missed so many opportunities when I've gotten to meet on personal terms with some people I'd consider extremely successful and simply not made a great impression. One of those opportunities could have been a small time job to get my foot in the door of my industry and could have (big "could have") allowed me to skip over this stupid 4 year degree that I'm working toward. edit: If I were James I could imagine myself wasting that opportunity. Reading your interactions makes me want to emulate some of them, and brings to light my past mistakes. All of this might be because I have a similar mentality to yours. At least as demonstrated by your poem and closer. Five years is still a long time friend ^^. There is this thing, where, we have expectations and when we're young, many of these expectations involve a sense of entitlement or where we think we should start at. Rather, no one owes us anything and the world may look at everyone one of us as nobodies -because there is always somebody who may be more qualified or experienced. But the thing I've found is everyone can appreciate someone with the right attitude to be humble yet confident to start at the bottom and learn like an open book - and - for that person to be ready to take on any opportunity, no matter how small to get the proverbial foot in the door. It's not that people are lucky, but rather people are prepared to take a small opportunity to position themselves to be ready to take on a bigger one. Exactly what you're saying, but with a step in between ^^ Thank you for reading. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 29 2016 18:34 AbouSV wrote: Those couple lines would have been very welcome a few year back. Thank you for the sharing. ^^ I think it's a good lesson to learn at any point in life. I mean how much time do we all waste on people that really aren't worth it? In fact, I think the kindest thing you could do is spend time to correct someone, because the only thing you get if you're recognized as right is a bit of ego, but they get a chance to change their life - even at that level. It also comes with the maturity that you're not trying to win an argument because you yourself is insecure with your position and that is why you need the validation of another to convince really yourself. When you know, you don't say, when you don't know, you listen and learn, then be better and crush them later. ^^ Thanks for reading. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 29 2016 20:44 RvB wrote: Your blogs are really good ^^. I enjoy reading the,. Thanks, I always have enjoyed sharing here as well, and the kick out of getting a comment, never goes away hehe ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 02:56 Cauld wrote: I've always loved your blogs, since the very beginning. I understand why you had to stop being so specific in regards to your business blogging, but I've still enjoyed them immensely. Hope you keep blogging, about any subject. Thanks for the understanding, I have had a lot of 'posters' being very critical of it, but I guess at the end of the day, I'm not going to screw myself because of a request from a 'poster', but for TL members, I think everyone has been understanding or shot me a PM if they really wanted to ask a more specific question. And thank you, I think I'll blog about honey bees next ^^ or something. Thx! | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 03:15 DumJumJmyWum wrote: Thanks for always blogging. It's always been an inspiration to read. I had been debating for 4 years whether I would do my own start up or not, and your perspective combined with other sources convinced me not to. While I think I would be more than willing to help be part of one, I don't think I would ever do it on my own. Here's to hoping for many more blogs! Well, for saving a soul from destruction, I should give myself a pat on the back hehe, no, but seriously, well that is great to hear, not that you're not doing a start-up yourself, but that you have gotten perspective on it. I'm not one to regret, but one thing I do know is that had I not gone off on my own, there would have been much more opportunities for me as an executive that I couldn't see because relatively I was quite young when I hit senior director as well as my rise was quite quick and it was hard for me to think that spending 2 years at the same role was a good thing. Patience is never the virtue of the young eh? ^^ Thx and good luck as well. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 03:42 MysteryMeat1 wrote: Thanks MightyAtom Hyung! You pmed me a couple years back, and your advice helped me on some of my more difficult projects. Definitely helped me make the jump from being a wantrepreneur to being an entrepreneur just because of knowledge I had from reading. MightyAtom hwaiting Hehe, well this is great too, someone who did go for it, I guess it helped being confused as to what side of the fence I was on. ^^ Ok good luck, I hope you crush it! Maybe we'll see each other on the other side! | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 05:50 joshie0808 wrote: As someone who joined TL later (2010? 2011?) during a time in my life where I was a business student and now working in industry, I always enjoy reading your blogs and hearing your perspective on things. This James guy is having the best opportunity of his life being mentored by you. I think its great that you've decided to invest in him as a person and hopefully he recognizes that too. That's super cool, I mean its cool when someone in business enjoys them as well. James, well, he is bright enough to know it's a good opportunity, but too dumb and horny i.e. distracted, to take advantage of it. So, for the moment, the James project is on hold until Joe smacks some sense into him. As it stands, it's not worth my time to repeat the same crap to him. Some times guys need some very tough love. ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 05:54 Lucumo wrote: Even cryptic posts like this one about business would be fine since it's nice to know how you are doing. Like feeling happy or sad for you, sharing your enthusiasm - it's a battle you fight and I genuinely want you to succeed. <3 Atom Sincerely thank you. It's a post like that makes me feel like TL is always good. ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 06:25 BeStFAN wrote: Will you at least give an update in the future about 'James' ? It was an interesting anecdote. Well, to keep it short, we had a meeting where the translator was shit, so he sat in the meeting, and he was terrible, and so in front of the client (who wasn't really a client, but a staff of the client), I blew up on him, the girl translator and the staff guy and said, 'how the fuck can you not translate better than this? If this was English to Korean or vise versa, I could do this level conversation without thinking about it' and so I threw down the pen I was using on the table and broke it, and the translator turned red and said, 'I'm just here for fun' (as she was the cousin of the staff), I realized the staff was a complete moron too, and I lost all respect for him, and James just looked down and I said, 'study fucking more, this is fucking ridiculous you speak this little mandarin' (considering James has been living in Shanghai for 3 years now from Texas). So anyway, until he shows me something like progress, I'm not really going to tell him anything further, and now I feel I really need to start learning Mandarin properly myself instead of just knowing curse words. ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 06:28 LoneYoShi wrote: Yeah, I'm in the same boat as most of the people above: we don't know each other, and yes your posts are cryptic as hell, but I thoroughly enjoy reading them ! Keep on crushin' mate, and keep us informed :-) Thanks brother, appreciate it ^^. I will try to keep up the crushing, and I hope if things work out, I'll sponsor a SCBW tourney here on TL, but I've been saying that for years now, but you never know ^^ thx! | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 08:53 Nikon wrote: Shit, I'd love for someone to break me down in five sentences like that. It's always a great circumstance towards improvement. You know one really useful and positive test I've taken in the last 5 years has been this: Strength Finders I think you need to pay $15 for the test online, but I think it's really worth it. ^^ and btw the only reason I could do with him, was because he was so simple keke. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 30 2016 15:50 SigmaoctanusIV wrote: I need the mighty Atom to smack the retard outta me... and some people I know... Open up a school. *Smack!* Just cause I like you, the other can just bleed out. ^^ | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On January 31 2016 04:09 Glowsphere wrote: Always enjoyed your blogs even though I tend to loathe the "business" world. You have a gift of insight and expressing yourself that is not common. I think you have many here who will continue to read as long as you choose to write... cheers. Hey thanks, I think I needed business to be sane...there is this guy, you probably know, Blaise Pascal and great thinker, mathematician etc, and in the end, he goes nuts - because he ends up thinking too much- after his death, his friends get together and gather all his crazy thoughts and organize it into a work call 'Pensees' i.e. thoughts. Thing is, when I read pensees, I get where he is going, not that I'm a genius or anything, but I have the propensity to simply build abstract thoughts upon abstract thoughts and get lost in, something of reverse inception, rather than going below the consciousness, I make a delusional attempt to create something that reaches from consciousness to the cosmic structures of society and existence. But business, always grounds me, it's like my anchor to reality because theories need to be applied in a max span of 3-5 years and decisions have effects within a month, so every thought needs to be applicable or else it is discarded and for me, it has given me balance. Cheers and thank you^^ | ||
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