How to stop being tech support in 30 days

Be warned this is a radical approach to a complex problem as such it would require a certain degree of intestinal fortitude to pull off; I came to it on the fly in a moment of guerilla inspired creativity during the Next Generation of Government Summit last week:

1. Put a mason jar in your office for every person who asks you for tech support. 
2. Label each jar with the name of one of your colleagues who asks you for help
3. Place a marble in person x's jar every time they ask you 
4. Photograph your jars at the end of everyday
5. After 30 days make a 15 second video that shows the evolution of the filling jars
6. Gather the people in the boardroom
7. Show them the video
8. Explain to them that each marble represents a a time when one of them asked you to do something that took time away from your substantive duties
9. Hand each person the jar with their name on it
10. Tell them that it represents the karma you've built up over the past month and to kindly remember that when you come asking them to do something for you

If all that fails, just wear the T-Shirt.

Originally published by Nick Charney at cpsrenewal.casubscribe/connect

Guerilla Renewal

The other day I took down a notice from the communication board, took it back to my desk, and made some alterations with my Sharpie.

I got the idea from Austin Kleon's book Steal Like an Artist (which references his previous work Newspaper Blackout in which Austin uses a sharpie to black out newsprint to create poetry).

This is Guerilla Renewal at its finest.

Try it out, email me a copy, I'll post them here next week.

Now, off to affix it back to the board.




Originally published by Nick Charney at cpsrenewal.casubscribe/connect