Oh My… I was voted the “Most Hyper” Employee

Posted on October 13, 2008 
Filed Under Innovation, Web Stuff

I do not know if I should be proud of it.  My company (Nortel) recently had a competition to see who is the most “Hyperconnected” among the 30,000 employees we have worldwide.  The judging panel included the CTO, CIO, Editor of the CIO Magazine, and MIT Media Lab’s Andy Lippman.  Yes, of course, I work with Andy and our CTO, but they didn’t know it was me when they voted since the entries were anonymoized.  :)

Here is my “winning” entry below.  Since the award was given, I have received two emails from friends who said I am weird, and numerous emails who “congratulate” me.  What I have to say though, is my “weirdness” and fondness to be on the forefront of the consumer experience actually helps me get to where I am today.  I work with worldclass researchers whose knowledge are normally way over my head.  But I usually am pretty good and bringing the best out of them, and helping them translates their “Hot Ideas” into something that’s actually valuable to the end users…

Anyway, here’s the entry.  Anyone who can beat me, please feel free to post a comment.  ;)


Here are my Top Ten reasons when you know you are (too) hyper-connected:

 

  1. Instead of a magazine stand, I have an Amazon Kindle in my bathroom.
  2. I tell people not to leave me voice mail, but send me email or IM instead.
  3. The number of network enabled devices is 7 times the number of bedrooms I have in my house.
  4. We have 2.5 3G/WiFi mobile web surfing devices for every individual household member.
  5. I have 17 devices in the house with a LCD display (not counting appliances)
  6. I panicked for a good 5 minutes when my GPS brokedown, forgetting that I can actually use the paper map sitting right next to me in the passenger seat.
  7. I freaked out my dog/house sitter when she found out I know exactly when/what she does even when I am thousands of miles away.  My mobile phone tells me all the activities in my house, and even allow me to turn things on and off.
  8. My ebay transaction exceeded $100K one year (admittedly with 3 auto transactions).  And I am an expert in “Sniping” ebay deals using my mobile PDA.
  9. Our mobile electronics outweighed our luggage during my last vacation.  (2 laptops, 1 ipod Touch, 1 PMP, 2 Blackberries, 1 GPS, 1 GPS photo geotagging device, 2 walkie talkies, 2 Digital SLRs, 1 compact digital camera, and 1 HD camcorder.)
  10. We need another vacation just to sort thru the 80+GB of digital contents we created from our last vacation.

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