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Minimum Viable Personality
Excellent thoughts here on cultivating personality in your products. Note that just about everything can be thought of as a product. If you produce reports for a living, the report is your product. You can create a brand out of … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Art, Business, Creativity, Personality, relationships
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On Being Too Good
When Roger Bannister broke the 4:00 barrier, a wave of runners suddenly poured through the hole he had smashed. Before Bannister, a sub four minute mile was unthinkable. After Banister, well, who cares if you ran a 3:59? So did … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Art, Business, Creativity, mastery, Practice, Technique
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Test Your Way To A Raise
Testing is fundamentally important to increase your odds of success. Yes, you may have been born an athletic freak. You may write a screenplay that strikes the right tone at the right time and is wildly successful. You may come … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Art, Business, Self-Improvement, Testing, Tracking
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The Million Dollar Answer
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain We spend a lot of time and money worrying. We walk around thinking about earthquakes and hurricanes and terrorist … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Anxiety, Art, Baseball Analogies, Business, Crush It, Future, Insurance, Mark Twain, Plan, Sebastian Marshall, Success, Worry
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Pay Attention To Get Rich
Being aware of the world around you is important. It makes life more interesting. It’s the foundation for creativity. It can also make you rich. I’m reminded of this fact by Sam Farber, founder of OXO. How did Sam, a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Art, Awareness, Business, Curiosity, Inspiration
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Your Preferences Don’t Matter, Your Customers’ Do
If you’ve ever tried to go to a restaurant’s website, there’s a 98% chance your experience was horrifically unpleasant. Usually, after the obligatory 10-30 second load time, there’s some weird music that starts playing, there’s obnoxious pictures or slideshows coming … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Aesthetics, Food For Thought
Tagged Business, Desires, experience, Fulfill Needs, Restaurant, Web Page, Website
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Pay People To Insult You
Here in California, nobody sends anything back at restaurants. Even when the food is terrible or prepared totally incorrectly, most people refuse to send it back. This isn’t a regional phenomenon either. Even in New York, the bastion of speak-your-mind-straight-shooters, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Diet, Food For Thought, Money, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged America, Business, California, Feedback, New York, Pussies, Resteraunt, Send it back, Service
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The Point of the Internet
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
Posted in Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Broker, Business, Humanity, Internet, Matchmaker, Togetherness, Web 2.0
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