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• One Foot Forward, Repeat. Last winter, I biked at least 10 miles everyday. From the home office to coffee shops and client meetings. Only missed 2 days due to awful weather. This winter, traveling to my clients wasn’t as convenient. Both my road and mountain bikes gathered dust all winter. This week, just in time for spring, I got
• Share You OPML, Exposing 1% of Your Audience According to the Feedburner widget 53,657 people are subscribed to TechCrunch.com. 746 of those people are also sharing their opml. That’s 1.4% overlap. If you’re running a tech startup, thanks to Share Your OPML, you now know which 746 people to talk with first. Coincidently, I’ve talked to a bunch of ecommerce, direct-to-customer organizations over the
• You Have a Higher Tolerance for Ambiguity in Your Thinking Styles  I suspect anyone who spends more than 5 minutes with me could conclude that, including this neuropolitics.org survey. Here’s their entire first impression of me: “Your responses are consistent with the following attributes: You have a higher propensity for large-group social bonding. You have a probable elevation in your dopaminergic activation system. Your right prefrontal cortex
• Anonymous Responses Are Useless One of my current projects has a major survey component. The survey ends with: “If you’d be open to follow up questions, enter your email address below.” There’s about a 60 / 40 split on responses with emails and those without. The responses without email addresses have skipped questions, irrelevant answers, and are generally unusable. This
• What is Failure? The other day, I was talking with a software engineer about a potential project. During the conversation, he asked if I was ever on a project that failed. “Failed?” I’ve worked on thousands of projects and given that more than 50% of project fail. I asked for a definition. “The project didn’t launch,” he responded. Given the complexity of