Category Archives: Business

How To Make Meetings Productive

Posted on June 11, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Everyone has been forced to sit in meetings that stretch on forever about something that’s either irrelevant, unimportant, or that they’re uninformed about.  Say someone’s giving a talk about a new technology that’s going to be implemented.  Most people have … Continue reading →

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Stop Waiting For The Right Idea

Posted on June 10, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Ideas aren’t a dime a dozen.  Ideas a free, by the thousands.  Don’t believe me? http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html Stop waiting for the perfect idea.  There is no such thing.  Just start.

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Barely Hanging On? Count Backwards to Success

Posted on June 8, 2011 by AJ Kessler

The explosion came from out of nowhere. Flames surround me. I couldn’t see through the glowing white light of burning magnesium. That’s how the “second half” of Dan Ariely’s life began.  After sustaining third degree burns to over 70% of … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be Awesome, Be Decent

Posted on May 29, 2011 by AJ Kessler

My girlfriend was telling me a story about her friend while we were driving in the car today.  Some unknown person asked the friend for a favor, which she granted.  “What an awesome thing to do!” I said. In this … Continue reading →

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More Hours ≠ More Results

Posted on May 28, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Energy, the capacity to work, is not a finite resource. I really want to believe this.  I often get exhausted though, or sick of working on something, or drained, or just lazy.  My capacity to work seems fluctuates all over … Continue reading →

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Save Money By Being Predictable

Posted on May 27, 2011 by AJ Kessler

A lot of people I know either revel in their spontaneity, or wish they could be more spontaneous.  But, people only value spontaneity in tiny amounts.  If you’re spontaneous 24 hours a day, you’re completely unpredictable.  Best case scenario, you … Continue reading →

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Invite, Don’t Sell

Posted on May 25, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Windows and Orbitz provide totally open experiences: you can have whatever you like, anything is possible, but you’re going to have to work for it. Apple and Abercrombie & Kent chose a different direction: both provide totally tailored, curated experiences.  … Continue reading →

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How to E-mail

Posted on May 22, 2011 by AJ Kessler

E-mail is the single greatest time-waster in modern life. –Tim Ferris Tim Ferris, of Four-Hour Workweek and Four-Hour Body fame, is on a one-man mission against e-mail.  Check out some of the results for a search of “Tim Ferris e-mail”: … Continue reading →

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Most of Your Work Sucks

Posted on May 20, 2011 by AJ Kessler

In the ten or so years I’ve been shooting photos, I cannot tell you how many I’ve taken.  Not because the number is so staggeringly large (it’s probably under 100,000) but because I’ve deleted so many I have no way … Continue reading →

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That’s Not Fair

Posted on May 16, 2011 by AJ Kessler

What revolves around the Earth? “Henri looked down in concentration as the answer choices were read aloud: (A) The moon, (B) The sun, (C) Mars, (D) Venus.  Henri reread the question out loud and mulled the choices over in his … Continue reading →

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Books Are Souvenirs

Posted on May 15, 2011 by AJ Kessler

People used to read books for two reasons: to gain some knowledge or to be entertained.  For a few hundred years, bound books were about the only good way to store a large amount of information.  People still had voices, … Continue reading →

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The Point of the Internet

Posted on May 14, 2011 by AJ Kessler

The web is chock-full of information but what we are really after as people is not information but other interesting people. –Chatty’s About Page Is that really what people are after?  An awful lot of the internet has been built … Continue reading →

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Why Poker Is Like Business

Posted on May 12, 2011 by AJ Kessler

In Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness, he discusses life after being bought out of LinkExchange for $265 million, of which his share was around $20 million.  While searching for what he was going to do next, he became intensely focused on … Continue reading →

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Fuck You. Pay Me.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Though there’s some stuff in here I don’t necessarily agree with, a worthy watch for any creative: 2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo.

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