Random Articles

• Balance in the Air A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” - Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and downs.
• What Dial-Up Doesn’t Mean Calling up your sister with DSL and asking her check something online for you.
• Help, Help, I’m Not Being Oppressed There’s a renewed DIY/independence/hacker vibe going around, Dave Slusher says it needs a name. I agree. From my perspective, this vibe is about all of us making effective use of cheap tools - to serve our own individual/custom purposes first, and offering the finished product to others to extend and enhance. I hesitate to use the
• Fortune Cookie Actually Relevant At today’s MNteractive PowerLunch I received the following fortune cookie message: “Explore the backroads of the north with a new friend.” It seemed fantastically relevant to last weekend’s journey. If you haven’t been to the Sawatadee in St. Paul, the service is fantastic. I haven’t been there for months and the waitress recognized me, remembered what I ordered
• A Business Model for Abundance Heretofore, most business were founded on the idea of scarcity. Being the One and Only as Seth Godin describes. If you’re the only vendor offering something, it used to be easy to make money. Just convince people you’re the only one that can solve their problem. Then surround yourself with huge barriers to entry while locking