November 2008
26 posts
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“100% of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in!”
– Wayne Gretzky
“You get interesting ideas by having lots of them. There’s a lot of waste in gold...”
– Frank at Questionable Characters
“Dig a well prior to becoming thirsty”
– Harvey Mackay
“Innovation is a continual process of creative destruction of the norm.”
– Brad Feld
On Multi-tasking
When you’re engaged in one thing, time expands. When you’re dual-tasking, it contracts; the brain misses the metaphorical “tick” of some number of pulses so time seems shorter. It’s simple: accurate judgement of time requires attention to passage.
Source: Jennifer Ackerman
Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream page 30
“Write or speak passionately. Your website, blog or articles that you publish in...”
– Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian
“Orville Wright never had a pilot’s license.”
– Gordon MaKenzie
If you’re the first to do something, you don’t have to have permission.
“The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell...”
– Mark Hughes, author of “Buzzmarketing”
The Creative Habit
After so many years, I’ve learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That’s why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren’t ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people’s words. They might set a goal for...
When I want to learn something new, I try to immerse myself in it as much as possible. I’ll buy 5-10 books on the subject and read them back to back. I’ll contact several experts and learn from them. I’ll dive in with action and do some kind of 30-day trial.
This is a great way to learn. It keeps your enthusiasm up because you can enjoy rapid progress through the beginner phase. You get to the...
When I want to learn something new, I try to immerse myself in it as much as possible. I’ll buy 5-10 books on the subject and read them back to back. I’ll contact several experts and learn from them. I’ll dive in with action and do some kind of 30-day trial.
This is a great way to learn. It keeps your enthusiasm up because you can enjoy rapid progress through the beginner phase. You get to the...
Business Rules of Thumb →
Small pearls of wisdom.
“The details are not the details. They make the project.”
– Charles Eamus
A Job vs. A Calling
The distinction is artificial but worth drawing. A job will never satisfy you all by itself, but it will afford you security and the chance to pursue an exciting and fulfilling life outside of your work. A calling is an activity you find so compelling that you wind up organizing your entire self around it — often to the detriment of your life outside of it. There’s no shame in either. Each...
“Selling ideas is a fundamentally different business than having ideas.”
– Seth Godin
“For the world to get better, things that don’t work have to fail.”
– Megan McCardle in The Atlantic
