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I've been trying to read Guy Kawasaki's "Enchantment" which is kind of about marketing, and how if you enchant someone with your product/attitude it creates a reciprocal loyalty which is beneficial to the consumer and enriching for you. But I can't shake the feeling he thinks I'm an idiot, and I gave him fifty pages and he told me to smile more. So I'm over Guy Kawasaki.

I think maybe I need to move away, a little, from -- I don't even know what to call this genre, the closest I can get is "Corporate Self-Help" -- into more academic studies like Made To Stick was. (This is not a call for reccs. No, seriously, my reading list is long enough, don't recc any books to me.) Also I'm creeped out by how often these books like Enchantment and The 360 Degree Leader are linked into Christian ministries or written by preachers. I try not to be prejudiced against Christianity because I know there are good, thoughtful, compassionate people of every religion out there, but I was raised in four different churches of three separate denominations and I have some serious issues with what I encountered. I don't want to re-encounter it under the guise of business advice, thanks.

Though it's not like I don't need some corporate self-help today, in all honesty; of the three FIVE (two more "incidents" occurred while I was writing this) people I've had extended conversations with, I've managed to be drastically misunderstood by all of them. Mind you, two of them are idiots, but I can't really say the misunderstanding was their fault. Plus I was an idiot to Coworker Crush, though that's really just par for the course.

Early this morning, due to an incident not involving work, I declared this day Awkward Friday. I think I may have cursed myself.

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I lost?


>.> Hadn't thought about that in years, damnit!