Dmitry Linkov

Education in the new World

July 31st, 2006. Published under General. 1 Comment.

Just finished reading the Free Agent Nation by Dan Pink. I got a few thoughts about education system that I want to share with you.

Dan writes about home education, about traditional education system crisis etc. In Russia there is one more problem. Our economy is growing and we have all the problems connected with it – bureaucracy, fake documents, super low and super high salaries and much more. Today you can just go and buy diploma. More money you will pay, the better diploma you will get. While learning, you will meet quiet a lot of professors that can accept payments for passing exams. Nothing criminal – professors also need money to live (and salaries are super low for them). So what we see – a lot of people with good diplomas that in fact don’t know a lot.

These people come to companies and show their diplomas, but after a short period of time companies realize that “this guy is simply stupid”. So the diploma now is just a paper, that often shows nothing to the companies. You need something more to proof, that you know certain things.

One more thought. We need people who will teach us to reason. We study economics, management and whole bunch of things, but rarely someone teaches us to reason in this fields. This is especially important in such fields as management and everything connected to it, because this sciences are still young and they will only develop in future.

Link

July 20th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

Very nice post about fonts and their usage by Seth Godin you can find here.

Working for pleasure

July 16th, 2006. Published under General. 4 Comments.

While reading the “Free Agent Nation” by Dan Pink, this idea get into my mind very clearly! When you receive pleasure of what you do, than you become happy. Simple. So simple that you can’t beleive in it for the first time. But this is so true!

And another thing, that I see also very important (this time it’s mine). In your life and in you work you select (1) the area of you job (farmaceuticals, oil, consulting, finance etc.), (2) level where you feel happy (specialist, middle managemet, top management etc.) and (3) the size of the company or project you are working at. What do you think guys?

Hello FREE Agent Nation

July 12th, 2006. Published under General. 1 Comment.

So here I am. With my microbusiness. I can officially say that now I’m in my own business. The documents are still in registration, but soon everything will be ready! Quiet exited about this.

Meanwhile want to point your attention to a very nice book, written by my friend Trevor Gay:

You can buy it here.
Testimonials can be found here.
It’s worth the reader’s attention to observe!

It’s been a while

July 11th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

Finally – I’m back from vacations. I quit with my job. Now I’m a free agent!

Hello guys! You’ll see more posts from me even today!