gregtyree.com » everything else http://gregtyree.com i expect something should be said Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My new morning (and afternoon) beverage http://gregtyree.com/2011/03/04/my-new-morning-and-afternoon-beverage/ http://gregtyree.com/2011/03/04/my-new-morning-and-afternoon-beverage/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:46:42 +0000 gtyree http://gregtyree.com/?p=1549 [...]]]>

I have been drifting back towards having several Coke Zero’s to provide my daily caffeine fix and wanted to break that habit and just this week found a new option to help.

I (and the whole family) are big fans of Vitamin Water Zero and this I believe is the first flavor they have introduced that includes caffeine.  If you can’t read the print on the image this flavor is called ‘drive’ and is blood orange-mixed berry flavored.  I think I will have to find my way over to the nearby Fairway and pick up a case.

And of course I can’t talk about Vitamin Water without mentioning 50 Cent.  His ownership already netted him $100 million when the company was purchased by Coca-Cola.

]]> http://gregtyree.com/2011/03/04/my-new-morning-and-afternoon-beverage/feed/ 0 The goal of business http://gregtyree.com/2011/02/18/the-goal-of-business/ http://gregtyree.com/2011/02/18/the-goal-of-business/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:54:33 +0000 gtyree http://gregtyree.com/?p=1529 [...]]]> I love this quote from Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action and the Cultivation of Solidarity by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores & Hubert Dreyfus:

Business owners do not normally work for money either. They work for the enjoyment of their competitive skill, in the context of a life where competing skillfully makes sense. The money they earn supports this way of life. The same is true of their businesses. One might think that they view their businesses as nothing more than machines to produce profits, since they do closely monitor their accounts to keep tabs on those profits.

But this way of thinking replaces the point of the machine’s activity with a diagnostic test of how well it is performing. Normally, one senses whether one is performing skillfully. A basketball player does not need to count baskets to know whether the team as a whole is in flow. Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no opponent.

The game and styles of playing the game are what matter because they produce identities people care about. Likewise, a business develops an identity by providing a product or a service to people. To do that it needs capital, and it needs to make a profit, but no more than it needs to have competent employees or customers or any other thing that enables production to take place. None of this is the goal of the activity.

Found via kottke.org.

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  • @dwester42a Get a Drobo – 4 drive (and up) RAID in reply to dwester42a #
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  • anyone have a great system for tracking software licenses for a workgroup or team? #
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  • @chaddickerson I am in for the football at angry wade's but I expect to come dressed in red/black in reply to chaddickerson #
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  • Snow plows are already out and plowing the streets of Brooklyn – five hours of snow and counting #fb #
  • and the 23rd James Bond film will arrive in 11/2012 – looking forward to it already #
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  • just the type of football game you hope for in a national championship game #
  • And here in Brooklyn the snow begins #fb #
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