HOW TO BEHAVE

 

Wired has a great article this month: How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans. A few of my favourites:

  • Choose the right ringtone. Sad to say, I am ‘Default Ringtone’. I really wanted to be Van Halen.
  • Ditch the headset. Amen to that – they could not be more right, walking around with a Bluetooth headset in, is truly an ‘ear mullet’.
  • Don’t work all the time, you’ll live to regret it. All about balance – work hard, play hard.
  • I don’t agree with Leaving Your Wi-Fi open. I know a guy who LOVES people who leave their wi-fi open. He uses their bandwidth, and if he is feeling like it, plays around inside that network. No thanks. As for that ‘guy’, he knows who he is.
  • This analysis is scary – American’s spend 9 hours a day glued to a screen:

I also enjoyed the rule torrent, which is listed here. A few favourites (they are around the edge in small print):

  • Don’t quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail at a funeral. Stick to Life of Brian.
  • Back up your hard drive. Right now. (So true. I still hear people moan when they lose their drive. With DVDs at $.25/per, no excuse).
  • Turn off "Sent from my iPhone" email signatures. (or Blackberry, or PALM or whatever)
  • Don’t send out a follow-up email apologizing for a typo in a previous email. (I almost did that yesterday)
  • Ask for free tech support only from immediate family or significant others. (Or only give it to the aforementioned)
  • Never read the manual first.
  • Nobody cares how good your uncompressed audio files are.
  • Kill your zombie brother. He’s not your brother. He’s a zombie. (If you don’t know how to kill a zombie, read this book).

A good read. Thanks Brad Pitt.

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