“Some people don’t start making money until you forget who you are”
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“Don’t just take a collection of your posts.”
“…when you meet someone and they ask for your business card, how cool will it be when you can say, ‘here, take my book instead.’” – James Altucher
Daily Reality Continued
“The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call ‘living in your calendar.’ That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar.” – Daniel Markovitz I’ve been ‘living in my calendar’ for 18 months now – since I …
No.
“Never before has it been so important to say ‘no.’ No, I’m not going to read that article. No, I’m not going to read that email. No, I’m not going to take that phone call. No, I’m not going to site through that meeting.” – Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and …
The Open Web Needs Us
“We need to make it always-easier for people to own and run their own infrastructure. People think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be! Each of us can have the equiv of a printing plant, that’s the magic of tech. No harder to keep running than a laptop. To those people in tech who …
“Sometimes design is premature optimization”
“This happens when the complexity of building out the design is greater than the certainty that it’s the right design.” -destraynor This is why I don’t stress out about visual design – any more. Product design – yes, visual design – no. Too often I’ve seen visual design stall, distract, and diffuse product design questions.
I really need a mapping project
Between a great write up on how to build your own mapping service and the St. Louis Fed releasing a free MS Excel Add-in for their 30,000 data sets I’m itching to hack around on some maps.
No Sign of Success
“It’s hard for people sometimes to understand that things that look successful or generate attention don’t necessarily also generate money.” Misha Glouberman, via Luke Francl It took half my adult life to understand this phenomenon. Once I did, the world seemed both more approachable and hackable.
“If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.”
and another from Mark Cuban… “Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.” From me circa 2006…
“…TRUST WINGS HAPPEN BEFORE GROUND.”
“VISION LIKE STORY WITH MOUSE AND CHEESE. SOMEONE MOVE CHEESE, MOUSE FORGET CHEESE, INVENT MACHINE GUN AND EAT CAT.” – FAKEGRIMLOCK Happy New Year.