We get to do with our stuff what we wish to do with our stuff.

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We do other stuff on our own a couple more days a week.

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Then management faces the big question: Do we come clean and reveal our recklessness, or do we try to stuff the formerly money-making genie back into its bottle?

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As the secure cocoon of the workplace continues to decay, do we have the stuff to create our own destiny, to become entrepreneurs, free agents, innovators?

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Do we have a choice as to where our stuff is going to reside geographically?

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So much for all that work and the productivity enhancing stuff we were going to do on our smartphones, hunh?

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Besides dealing with our own sense of loss about a parent, we now have this new responsibility: doing a lot of the stuff the other parent used to do for our remaining aging parent.

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If we're making less stuff, but employing more people to do it, our productivity - output per head - has to have gone down.

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We obviously do some stuff with Foursquare, we are an event, and our sponsor Bombay will come back this year to do a festival with map integration and custom badges.

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"If they do it right this gives guys in my position a venue to put our stuff out there and make some money, " he says.

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