I am in a room surrounded by items of such complexity, utility and quality that they would have been far beyond the reach of the wealthiest people or nations just a few decades ago. I have nearly infinitely powerful computer in my pocket with the answer to all questions.
Read MoreThe single metric that powers the spread of content on the internet is click through rate.
Click through rate or CTR is the percentage of people who see a post or video or link that click on it. It doesn’t matter if the content is correct.
Read MoreThe single metric that powers the spread of content on the internet is click through rate.
Click through rate or CTR is the percentage of people who see a post or video or link that click on it. It doesn’t matter if the content is correct. It doesn’t matter if the content is valuable to the reader.
Read MoreSteven Bradbury needed the three best short track speed skaters in the world to fall down to win a medal at the 2002 winter Olympics. Of course he had to work hard. But don’t make it so that you feel like you have failed if everything doesn’t line up perfectly for you.
Read MoreA friend asked me yesterday how I will be able to come up with things to write about for the next 100 days without running out of ideas.
Here is my answer.
Read MoreOver the years the term ‘crutch’ has developed a negative connotation. It is used to mean something that hinders development, that slows your growth.
But this is incredibly misleading.
Read MoreToday is Saturday, and if I wanted to take the day off from writing for this blog, I would need something I don’t yet have. A buffer: ‘one I made earlier’ as the great TV chefs of old would always say.
Read MoreWithin 20 minutes of coming up with this idea for a blog post while cooking my lunch, I listened to an episode of Seth Godin’s podcast Akimbo and he brought up the idea of mise-en-place as an example of how to use placebos on yourself.
Read MoreIn terms of value for money, we cannot compete with this type of pricing. We have to offer something different. What exactly do I have that IKEA can’t provide?
Read MoreSeth Godin Challenged me (and you) to blog for 100 days. Will I do it? Will I write anything worth reading?
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