In today’s blog post I just wrap-up some great links to motivational sources I read lately and as I know how hard it can be to keep up the passion and commitment over a long period of time without a little “fuel” once in a while I wanted to share it with you.

• Steve Jobs: “How to live before you die“
• William Deresiewicz: “Solitude and Leadership“
• Mark Finnern: “Focus on Passion: 10 Tips for an Engaging Community“
• Sascha Kiefer: “Do you need passion for your job?“

Introduction

In today’s blog post I’ll quickly guide you through a few simple steps to setup a WordPress Blog for a domain of your choice. It’s no rocket-science and even the less technical people should be able to succeed in this – as I’ll try to demonstrate ;)

It’s really interesting… on one side I get a lot of visibility such as being featured on SCN Career Landing page with my recent article about being a Software Architect and the feedback exceeded my wildest expectations, yet I still feel that we are far away from establishing the required feedback mentality required to really live-up to the social aspect of Web 2.0 in general….

I see that everyday. And w/o feedback blogging is just a monologue. I think that the reader – by taking the time to read – is also responsible to at least leave a short remark on the content. Nothing is more de-motivating to the author/blogger to see that hundredths of people have read something w/o leaving any indication whether or not they liked the content or not. So, I try to do that… if I took the time to read something  (or listen to a podcast or watch a video blog) I’ll at least leave a short comment/remark…

As such… here’s just a recap on these twop topics from my side:

• A Day in the Life being an Architect – Coaching | Mobile-friendly version
• SDN in the times of Web 2.0: Need for Feed(-back) | Mobile-friendly version

so, I got this video from a colleague friend today. I knew it was supposed to be funny… yet it certainly depends on how you look at it… or how you watch it… me… I’m doing home office today… watching the game :)

First blog from my iPhone using the wordpress app