Saturday August 27, 2005
Saturday August 27, 2005 Vocations, Avocations and Posters with Funk
I was walking down the hall, on my way to the bathroom, and lo and behold, what did I see, but a larger than life poster of Ambreesh - smiling at me!
I enjoy working with Ambreesh Khanna - he's smart and charismatic and has a talent for evangelizing our technology and solving problems. He was an early supporter of the OpenSolaris project - he started exploring the possibilities with customers months before Jonathan publicly announced our plans in Shanghai back in 2004. Ambreesh works for Sun with Wall Street customers, which alas means that I don't get as much face time with him as those lucky New Yorkers. So I guess I'll need to go to the bathroom more often, huh? Great poster, Ambreesh!
Props to the people at Sun who created these inspired posters (posters with funk, I dare add) that highlight some of the individuals doing great work across Sun. This is definitely a step above "employee of the month" recognition programs (not that we ever did those). It's fun to see your friends' faces up in flashing lights (almost as fun as seeing this when I was on vacation, unplugged from my email and 3 thousand miles away from home.)
And as for the employee descriptions on the posters - no boring standard bio-fare used here, rather, the descriptions are a creative mix of their vocations and their avocations and even show how the two are intertwined. Mixing vocations and avocations is often a recipe for success but, far more importantly, always a recipe for fulfillment in my book. More thinking on that point from Paul Graham and Tim Bray.
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Hate the posters myself. Pretty much every one I've seen proclaims that the victim is a "Change Agent", whatever that is (maybe Sun would be in better shape if everybody wasn't running around changing stuff so often?), and I've never seen anybody bother to read the small print, which may or may not be more interesting. Posters really aren't supposed to have small print.
Posted by 212.2.175.219 on August 29, 2005 at 02:42 AM PDT #