One of these skills you can learn over time, the other you cannot. I love to read project management methodology books, blogs and process flow charts. People are extremely creative in making project management the most complicated process on the planet. CMM for PM, Agile Project Management, PRINCE II, and you can even buy software that will allow you to create your very own methodology for PM. Maybe PMs feel under appreciated and unloved. They want people to recognize their special skills, bag of tricks, templates, flowcharts, power points, MS Project plans, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, a good PM is a valuable asset for any project. We also need to be organized and understand some basic processes that must occur in any project for it to be successful. We are, however, sometimes a strange bunch and tend to try and make things overly complicated.

Recently I was watching YouTube videos that caused me to be a little pessimistic about the fate of humanity. People hurting each other, outrageous acts perpetrated against innocent victims in the name of “humor”, Christians bashing Christians, Muslims bashing Muslims, Christians bashing Muslims, Muslims bashing Christians, Atheists bashing … well, everyone. It’s depressing sometimes.

So I wondered if there is actually anything good going on in the world of YouTube. So I went in search of channels that seemed to be about something other then themselves. I found well over a hundred and I’m not done yet.