{"id":466,"date":"2008-12-03T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-12-03T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T19:12:39","slug":"10-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"10 Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a title=\"Design Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/designobserver.com\/archives\/entry.html?id=38855\" target=\"_blank\">Design Observer<\/a> remarks from Chris Pullman shares the 10 lessons he learned in his 35 years as the VP of Design at WGBH<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Work on things that matter. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Work with people you like and respect. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Be nice. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Have high standards. <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t settle for \u201cwhatever.\u201d The corrosive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dilbert<\/a> mind-set is depressing and demeaning. Wherever you choose to work, don\u2019t give it a foothold. I prefer the \u201csee you and raise you one\u201d escalation of good ideas, even crazy ideas. High standards is something that has set this place apart. Even in hard times, it is important to keep hold of this core distinction, whatever it costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>5 Have a sense of humor. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Variety is the spice of life. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Institutions have a character, just like people do. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 9 We\u2019re all in the \u201cunderstanding business.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10 You are what you eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click over to <a title=\"Design Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/designobserver.com\/archives\/entry.html?id=38855\" target=\"_blank\">Design Observer<\/a> as each of the 10 items has some good insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Design Observer remarks from Chris Pullman shares the 10 lessons he learned in his 35 years as the VP of Design at WGBH 1 Work on things that matter. 2 Work with people you like and respect. 3 Be nice. 4 Have high standards. Don\u2019t settle for \u201cwhatever.\u201d The corrosive Dilbert mind-set is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}