Sex, Money and… What?

I’ve been reading Personal Kanban Series on Evolving Web blog by Jim Benson this week. If you know me well and you just clicked on the aforementioned blog link, you might wonder what the fuck happened to Yoon and who is this person impersonating her. And if you don’t know me well and you just clicked on the said blog, you might wonder why some people might wonder I’m an impostor who incapacitated Yoon in order to write on this good-for-nothing blog. Well, I’ll tell you a little later.

Ever since I came back online from the depression-induced hiatus after my Grizzley’s death, I’ve been seeing the tweets from topsurf mentioning “personal kanban series by ourfounder” on twitter. Not knowing what this exotic word kanban meant and who ourfounder was, I first thought this kanban thing had to do with some personal growth or spiritual awakening or some shit like that because the combination of the words “personal” and “kanban” and “ourfounder” gave me the feeling that this ourfounder guy is the founder of this spiritual or personal growth “system” for lack of a better word.

OK, I lied. I said at the end of the first paragraph that I’d tell you why the impostor and yadi yadi yada, but I feel too lazy and this post has gotten already a little too long going on a tangent, and I haven’t even gotten to my point, which has to do with sex and money and something else, as the title suggests and what interested you guys in the first place. So I’m just not gonna tell you. If you’re one of those who wondered, you’re just gonna have to keep wonderin’.

Where was I? Oh yeah, so the last weekend, I finally asked topsurf what this kanban was. She gave me the link to the Personal Kanban Series, and suggested I read it because it helped her a lot. I started reading one article a day (what? You think my pea-sized brain can take more than THAT a day?) and found out  it’s not what I thought at all. It’s a tool to improve  productivity, and ourfounder guy is not  a spiritual leader or a cult founder, but a management consultant named Jim Benson. I’ve decided to try kanban  in my life at home rather than at work because home is where I suffer from lack of productivity in doing shit around the house – all four dogs, who refuse to help bring home the bacon by getting jobs and such, believe it or not, also refuse to help around the house with picking things up, vacuuming or dusting, etc.

Anyway. Crud… I’m so far away from what I wanted to blog about now I wonder if I should even try. Oh well. Whatever. So now I come to the point that has very little to do with most of what I have jabbered on about so far.

In one of his articles, Jim Benson states,

Human beings want three things in life: sex, money, and effective prioritization.

I, who I think is a human being, happen to want money, naps, and food. In that order. And lots of them. But I usually can’t pass for normal. So I kinda understand his statement and I even agree with the money part as you can see. And I can understand the sex part, too – psst, have you noticed Jim is a guy? But effective prioritization? Uh… hmmm… Methinks his profession clouded his mind right there. I think it should be “new and improved way to get sex and money fast without much effort” or “effective way to delegate” or “effective way to evade responsibility” or “better way to blame somebody else” or  something along those lines.

Drats. Now that I said it, I realize I don’t really have much of a point. I might have “subconsciously”  just put that title to pique your interest and make you read this meaningless blathering. Don’t you think it’s a very clever title anyways, eh?