{"id":783,"date":"2005-08-31T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=783"},"modified":"2005-08-31T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T21:37:07","slug":"doing-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/doing-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing it anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice story from Jon at Wirearchy<\/a> today about what it means to really show up for work: <\/p>\n

It’s the tale of a software engineer at Apple Computer – Ron Avitzur – who had been charged with creating some graphing calculator software, to ship with every Apple computer. After a year on the project he lost his job in 1993 because – he says – of internal politics at what was, at the time, a struggling company. The key thing is what Ron did next.<\/p>\n

He kept showing up for work.<\/p>\n

His swipe card worked, there were lots of empty offices, so he just kept going, unpaid, for months, creating a fully-fleged and entirely unauthorised skunkworks at the heart of the company.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he roped in support from various specialist departments and, after huge amounts of work from across the company – and all without top management knowledge – he got the software shipped on every new Mac computer. The software is still going out today, although the relationship between Ron and Apple has, at last, been formalised.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice story from Jon at Wirearchy today about what it means to really show up for work: It’s the tale of a software engineer at Apple Computer – Ron Avitzur – who had been charged with creating some graphing calculator software, to ship with every Apple computer. After a year on the project he lost his job in 1993 because – he says – of internal politics at what was, at the time, a struggling company. The key thing is what Ron did next. He kept showing up for work. His swipe card worked, there were lots of empty offices, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-cD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}