May 2012
33 posts
“lifehacking is so seductive because it’s simply easier than asking some bigger,...”
– Confessions of a recovering lifehacker | John Pavlus
Confessions of a recovering lifehacker →
Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things.
NY Times Article from 2007 on the iPhone →
The iPhone is not, however, a BlackBerry killer. The absence of a physical keyboard makes it versatile, but also makes typing tedious.
Efficiency isn't sexy →
Such operational efficiencies have been an underappreciated factor in Apple’s success for the past decade; all the attention has been on its beautiful designs and snazzy marketing overseen by Jobs. If anything, Apple under Tim Cook will embrace efficiency to an even greater degree, especially as the company grows bigger and more complex — to the dismay of those who think techies should rule the...
How Tim Cook is changing Apple →
It’s almost as if he is working his way through a to-do list of long-overdue repairs the previous occupant (Jobs) refused to address for no reason other than obstinacy.
“Yes - correlation does not imply causation. But it does show a relationship, and...”
– Why the Marketing World Needs More Correlation Research | SEOmoz
“To me, Facebook is currently the Microsoft Windows from 1997. Everyone used...”
– Facebook vs. Twitter — The Brooks Review
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Raving Review for Evernote + GTD Tutorial
“Jesus, i was in hospital for 4 weeks and found out that my desease was stress related so i collected informations on how to get rid of that, found the book GTD from David Allen, figured that my ipod and iphone can help me organize a lot. Found Evernote, found these videos. Hell man i think i am on the freakin right way to success and it works better every day! Thanks for beeing one step to...
“The way to get people to adopt your product or service is simple: make it...”
– I Am Condemning Free on Principle, So Should You — The Brooks Review
People are still people →
I thought when I left school and entered the workforce everyone would be uber-efficient, but that’s just not true. Just like in school, people often wait until the last minute to get something done.
Bring a flask to bars. Save money. Wipe out... →
“The flask thing, it’s kind of demeaning,” he says. “The funny thing is that girls weren’t really sketched out by it…They did laugh, and I could still get their phone number. It taught me a lot — you don’t have to be this flashy dude, buying drinks.”
“What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who cares! You do, in an involuntary,...”
– Teddy Wayne: Sharing on the Internet : The New Yorker
Why The “Make Money Blogging” Niche Is Broken →
Unless you have a strategy and a foundation, blogging is one of the shittiest and slowest ways to make money on the Internet in the history of man.
“The “make money blogging” space has turned into a creator of the shiny object...”
– Why The “Make Money Blogging” Niche Is Broken | DavidRisley.com
“I feel so much more grounded in the universe when I have regular contact with...”
– Merlin Mann on the latest episode of Back to Work
Sorkin > Kutcher →
In other words, Ashton, Sony would like to tell you good luck with your little movie, but your Jobs movie is the Deep Impact/Volcano/Gordy to their Jobs movie’s Armageddon/Dante’s Peak/Babe.
Paul Millet of The Verge quits the Internet for a... →
The moment I reached down and unplugged the ethernet cable from my computer, I felt like school was out for the summer, and the simultaneous relief and boredom that last bell brings.
Good news for Social Research →
the act of disclosing information about oneself activates the same sensation of pleasure in the brain that we get from eating food, getting money or having sex. It’s all a matter of degrees of course, (talking about yourself isn’t quite as pleasurable as sex for most of us), but the science makes it clear that our brain considers self-disclosure to be a rewarding experience.
Meritocracy is the future of hiring →
But projects are the real future of hiring, especially knowledge working hiring. No matter how wonderful your references or how well you do on those too-clever-by-half Microsoft/Google brainteasers, serious firms will increasingly ask serious candidates to do serious work in order to get a serious job offer.
Greg Oden on basketball →
There’s more to life than basketball, and at some point it’s going to end anyway. I’m going to do what I can to get back on the court, but if it doesn’t work out, I’ll find something else to do and have a normal life.
A nice step towards good economics →
Microsoft says it will charge its divisions a “carbon fee” based on their own carbon emissions.
“If you build it, develop a marketing budget and marketing strategy, THEN they...”
– why-i-hate-tech-startups
Marketing isn't free →
There is a huge misconception that technology start-ups just need to use social media to market their product. Even if you’re promoting your product through a grassroots social media campaign, there is still an associated cost – time. This is either your time or the time of someone you have to pay to help you.
Why I look at OmniFocus →
I believe good self-discipline falls naturally out of self-trust: knowing that I’m doing the right thing, right now. Worker-me trusts manager-me. I’ll come back to this in a second. (Trust me.)
This is something I struggle with. I regularly don’t trust my next actions list because it was Manager-me that wrote them. Sometimes I don’t trust that guy.
Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43... →
Once you see and accept real priorities, the rest just turns on the mechanics of fearless completion.
“His main point is that adding an assortment of labels, tags, and priorities to...”
– Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work
Why I don't read/watch the news →
Our contemporary techno-media wonderland means that whenever a disaster occurs, almost anywhere in the world, we know about it within hours. Only recently, we heard about a cruise ship sinking off the coast of Italy, a shooting incident in Belgium, and a bushfire in Western Australia. Our brains are not really wired to accommodate such a proliferation of bad news, regardless of it happening...
“I came to realize that the more informed we are, the less happy we become...”
– How To Be Happy Anywhere | Fast Company
“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is...”
– Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose | Smashing UX Design
“in the Internet age, software has close to zero cost of replication and massive...”
– Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
“When he looked into the history of the organization, he found that hierarchical...”
– Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
April 2012
22 posts
“Our culture does not think of movie directors, executive chefs, astronauts,...”
– Why project managers get no respect « Scott Berkun
“And the best way to stay employable is very similar to the best way to be an...”
– Your biggest barrier to starting your own business
“Just remember: when you’re the boss of your own company, it’s not good to...”
– David Hoang » Quit your job and take a leap of faith
“All lives are difficult; what makes some of them fulfilled as well is the manner...”
– Alain de Bottom, The Consolations of Philosophy
“Making things happen is dependent on having a clear sense of which things are...”
– How to Make Things Happen « Scott Berkun
“People get crushed under processes, systems require a lot of maintenance, and...”
– What’s the difference between a system and a process?
“If you do inbound marketing correctly, you connect with customers the way they...”
– Inbound Marketing Works: A Copywriter’s Success Story | Social Media Today
“In other words, jobs that require vision, fine motor skills, and locomotion have...”
– Humans Are Going the Way of Draft Horses | Coffee Theory
“That machines are displacing human workers is not necessarily a bad thing...”
– Humans Are Going the Way of Draft Horses | Coffee Theory
“The economy exists to serve the people, not vice versa. Incremental gains in...”
– The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“Mental health is the biggest contributing factor to happiness in all countries,...”
– The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“Unemployment obviously reduces happiness, but not because of what you may think....”
– The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“The commonly held but empirically unsupported notion that some uniquely...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Father of Deliberate Practice Disowns Flow
A bit of wisdom
Go about your business assuming everyone you talk or interact with is super busy