Let people talk about you. It’s free advertising. I saw some cool art in the French Quarter yesterday. I would have posted a picture so that you could see it and maybe decide to buy it. But the artist wouldn’t let me take a picture of her art. Did she think I could copy it? […]
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I’ve been known to ban all laptops and cell phones in meetings. I understand that sometimes people use them to take notes or look things up – but most often I find people use them to concentrate on something else other than the meeting. This is bad because: If you are sitting there obviously not
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I read an interesting essay by Paul Graham today, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss. Paul theorizes that humans are meant to work in groups of 8-20. So when you put more than that in an organization, you start to lose freedom in order to keep organization. A group of 10 managers is not
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Things are getting cheaper. From food to clothes to housing. If you don’t agree (and most people don’t initially) – I’d argue that you aren’t comparing apples to apples. Food in the grocery store is cheaper now than it was 20 years ago. You spend more on food now than 20 years ago because you
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Here are the top nine things that Amazon could do to expand their business model and make book readers’ lives perfect. Electronic copies of the books in your library. One of the things that’s keeping me from buying a Kindle is the fact that I have two shelves of books that I haven’t read yet.
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If you ever worked for or with a big company, you’ll find this book Company hilarious. Things like these will actually make you laugh: Endless voicemail forwards: "This is Greg Smith, Gretchen, can you please forward this to my staff. <beep> This is Mike Jones, Mary, can you please forward this to my direct reports.
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I read an opinion piece yesterday that speculated that Google should buy the New York Times. My first thought was outrage that a newspaper would have an agenda. My second thought was wow, I’m naive, newspapers are businesses and businesses can be companies and companies can be bought. (Strangely enough though a company can’t own
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Did you know that there are islands of floating trash in the Pacific Ocean that are bigger than the state of Texas? There are. Did you know that birds in Hawaii and the North Sea are routinely found with over a pound of garbage in their stomaches? There are and it kills them. The solution
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It looks like Blockbuster is finally losing to Netflix. Based on my personal experience I would have predicted this a long time ago – I’ve been a happy Netflix customer for 5 years now and I haven’t been to Blockbuster in at least 5 years. Three reasons I think Netflix rules over Blockbuster: No late
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I signed up for Amazon Subscriptions a couple of days ago and today we got our first shipment – a big box of diapers and a big box of toilet paper delivered free to the door. Free shipping, 15% off and they will send us diapers on a regular schedule! I signed up for diapers
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