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Archive for January 2009
The 4-Hour Workweek, to my mind.
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Outliers, to my mind.
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Outliers: The Story of Success [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED]
Newspaper to the door
After “reading” 4-Hour Workweek via audio book recently, I was convinced to drop the paper. I still think the main value to the paper in physical form is the editors and designers layout and treatment of the stories. It matters what stories are chosen and how they are presented. After all, the front page is [...]
So you don’t know, start.
Start…
Very little rules
Push toward share
Be user oriented
Consolidate and spread.
Farting and Twitter
A number of people reading already know of twitter. A number of you don’t.
Here is how I frame Twitter: It’s like blogging in that tweets post all on one page but it’s also like text messaging in that it’s short in nature yet it’s not like text messaging in that you, on the whole, don’t [...]
It’s about who knows you.
What matters more is being known. Yeah, it’s good to know people. Sure. But in this new space of digital community it is, to my mind, becoming more about how easy it is that you make yourself to be known.
Non of us have enough time to google everyone we meet. On the other hand, [...]
Getting Innovative Ideas: Context, Flashes and Diligent Co-Creators
For the most part, people want new ideas and innovation but how? Primarily, I have three rough tactics.
First, it seems to me that innovation can not be separated from context. Innovations are context based because they grow out of them and are defined in relation to them. Think of the paper clip. The paper clip [...]
Is digital community “real” community?
When social media became more real to me about 6 months ago I made cognitive sense of it best by thinking of it as a digital porch. The internet has empowered us to act like we would if we all lived geographically next door to each other and all had porches and used them like [...]
Was iTunes a Mistake?
No, I don’t think the service was a mistake, it’s brilliant. I am wondering if the name was a mistake. I love the service but I don’t enjoy telling people to go to iTunes to rent a movie or to go to iTunes to download an application.
I imagine that at it’s birth iTunes was the [...]