Mark Foster (author of the highly recommended, Do it Tomorrow) has an exceedingly simple and powerful task management system called: Final Version. “The FV algorithm uses the question ‘What do I want to do before I do x?’ to preselect a chain of tasks from the list. What exactly is meant by ‘want’ in this …
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Fixing the To(da)ys
The pawn shop Ze describes reminds me of J.F. Sebastian. All those toys, er, todays, that need to be fixed.
Projecting
“At that point it hit me: the notion of this idea as a ‘startup’ was holding this idea back. What if I dropped all of the pretense and just built the best thing I could think of? What would the idea look like?” – Kyle Shank On Open Loop #1 Jamie and I discuss dive …
I’m concerned…
…that this is starting to look like systematic discrimination. …[the St. Anthony city council] originally approved the opening of his store but now are seeking to close it. St. Anthony City Council rejects Islamic center plan.
Throwing Away Just Enough to Catch
Taken
“The best solution is not to need money. The less you need investor money, (a) the more investors like you, in all markets, and (b) the less you’re harmed by bad markets” – Paul Graham
Open Space Tech: Guiding principles and one law
Whoever comes is the right peoplereminds participants that they don’t need the CEO and 100 people to get something done, you need people who care. And, absent the direction or control exerted in a traditional meeting, that’s who shows up in the various breakout sessions of an Open Space meeting. Whenever it starts is the …
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Something Worth Starting the Day With
“News that activates your mind. Gives you new information and perspectives. Causes you to think of solutions. Causes you to feel that there is something you can do to make the world better.” – Dave Winer
Unbuttoned
a couple things I’ve written on the subject of third party buttons littering the web: from 2010 “In my experience, customer preferences move faster than website refresh schedules – so by the time the ‘Facebook Like’ button is integrated in a useful manner – the visitors changed their preference.” from 2006 “Once I’ve decided on …
Minimum Viable Pivot
“…Just create a new product.” – Dave Winer