Resource Economics..Grease your brain

I got tagged to do the Technorati favs on my blog Murphy’s Law. But I had some thoughts on this tag and it was more appropriate for me to share my thoughts on this blog than Murphy’s Law. So here are my thoughts:

I started Murphy’s Law in August, 2006 but then I lost the blog because I’m technologically challenged. I found it in November. Therefore, I really started blogging in November. Initially I blogged to express my frustration with having a special needs son and then my mission grew. Moreover, someone told me to start four blogs and dummy me listened. I started Murphy’s Law on blogger.

I contacted James Governor at Monkchips because I was reading everything I could and he suggested I start a blog on wordpress. He was great. What a great guy to give a newbie like me advice. James Governor took time for me and I’ll never forget that.

Blogging on the internet is a democracy. Capitalism at its best. The beautiful thing about capitalism and democracy is it gives all of us a chance to raise our own bar. Doshdosh brought awareness to Technorati favorites. What if you didn’t have a favorites button on your blog?

Now I must tell you, I am David in a world of Goliaths in the real world. So I have a very different perspective than most people. I also grew up with four brothers. It makes you think very differently than most people. One of my clients was the Chairman of Harvard Alumni Association and said to me, “Ev you are like a man, woman.” It really freaked me out. (Guys go ahead you can laugh like crazy because it is worth laughing at this one…..and check my pics if you want…there’s no fruity stuff going on here) I said “what do you mean?” He said, “Ev, you are very much a woman, but you think like a man.” So there you go.

I never speak about my competition. I never bring their name up. Why? This is my own personal philosophy, I’m just sharing it. You can choose to accept or reject it. You can say, I’m a goofball and I would agree with you. I don’t take myself too seriously. But I do try very hard to bring integrity into everything I do. Sometimes than means I may be the dumbest person in the room, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

If I speak about my competition, then I bring credibility to them. Why would I do that? If I badmouth my competition, what does that make me? I grew up at Johnson & Johnson. In my mind, I learned from the best. We dealt with the Tylenol crisis. Now I work on Wall Street. I’ve had to swim with sharks.

Here’s the other thing. Remember what your mom taught you? If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all? I try hard to live by that. And trust me I have screwed up many times. I’ve taught my kids ‘you have God on one shoulder and the devil on the other. Each is talking to you. Who are you going to listen to’? Every day CEOs make the choice of who they are going to listen to. We saw it happen at Enron, Worldcom, Arthur Anderson. If anyone thinks it won’t happen again, I can assure you it will.

Finally, when you have a child with special needs you see the world through a whole different lense. You see how ugly people can be. That’s why I write Murphy’s Law. It’s my hope that I can raise the world’s bar. In my own small pathetic way, I laugh at myself. Hopefully some people will laugh with me and hopefully people will find that they are bigger than they ever thought they could be.

In my mind you chose how you’re gonna play the game. I think this was one cool thing to do. Because a few things happened. Technorati grew up. Doshdosh made some stuff happen. And we all learned a whole lot in the process. Competition is healthy, it’s not bad. It raises everyone’s bar. I congratulate you Doshdosh. You made some cool stuff happen.

Copyright 2007 Ev Nucci