Laurent Courtines Free Online

Pushing the status quo and the "well that's the way we do things" should be attacked at all times.  If there is one thing you do at work,  you should be trying to break the strangle hold on status quo.  If you are an online worker and you aren't trying to destroy what you did last year, you aren't trying. 

The internet or technology is a fairly unregulated market (aside from the cartels running the access side)
There aren't any unions, there are no factories and a two man shop can take down a giant company.  It is the ultimate survival of the fittest market with lots of parallels to natural history.  Things are made extinct quickly and swiftly. 
Online building or contructing nearly always destroys something else.  It is a wonder! Contruction by destruction.  One site grows while another fades, one species adapts while another stagnates.  The examples are endless.  AOL verses the web, Friendster verses MySpace verses Facebook, Yahoo verses Google,Microsoft verses IBM, bloggers verses newspapers and on ad nausem.  In each case something new and  contructive, destroyed something old or slow moving.

This is how we all have to be as workers.  Never stop trying to construct a better solution, a faster node or anything.  Look past your current role and define what would destroy your job by contructing your next role.

To quote Woody Allen, a digital company is like a shark, and has to keep moving to breath.  When it stops moving you have a dead shark.  You don't want to have a dead shark on your hands.

Disruptions, construction and destruction - keywords to live by.

We live in a captitalist world of markets, supply and demand.  Nothing is free - there is no free lunch.  We've all been brought up and indoctinated with selling, profitting and what's in it for me. 
We've been at it so long, giving away even a little is frowned upon and people look at you like a loon.  Those days are over.  There is so much transparancy and social interaction today that you cannot just be a bottom line driven unless you have something truely unique to offer. (Trust me, its rare). Where does that leave us?
You've got to give it away.  Give away as much as you can! Its contrary to everything we know but its the last great currency.  If you can give away advice, pillows or sandwiches do it.  Folks are so thankful for a little bit of genuine free-ness they'll love you forever. Get ahead of the other company or employee by being the person or organization that isn't trying to make a buck on everything.  It just might be the thing that saves your job.

Some people I know would laugh at the fact that I put be an artist in my title.  Well, I don't mean artist in the traditional sense, I mean be an artist in the sense that you create, please and delight in your work.  It could mean being creative in you powerpoint delivery or in finding solutions to your coding.  Anything can be creative and artistic.  Hell they don't call them con artists for nothing! 
Take whatever artistic gift you have and apply it to your work with passion!  If you are creative in disagreeing with your boss and have the vision and creativity to move them into your way of thinking, then hell you've got to argue with ever decision there is.
In the last few years I have experienced this sort of epiphany.  I didn't have a "career" or a real path but through my natural tendancy towards skepticism and restlessness I have made myself into an intregal part of a team. I urge everyone to follow your passions and double down on what you are good at.
Happily disrupt the status quo.

This post was inspired by Seth Godin's 

I was going through my RSS feeds and saw what was likely an old article on how Conde Nast was closing Gourmet magazine after nearly 70 years.  It struck me that there is opportunity to locate,  buy and resuscitate old media brands and use them for your own good.  Here is what I would do:
1.  Go through the catalog of old magazines.
2.  Find the brands that you feel may still resonate with people.
3.  Somehow,  either through partnerships or outright purchases acquire those brands.
4.  Develop content around those original brands on the cheap.
5.  Rinse repeat.
This is a huge opportunity for the blog networks of the world to show the old guard how it's done and what sorts of value the magazine publishers of the world are sitting on.