Archive for 2008

Not Caring!

Your strongest characteristic that will see you through the toughest of times is your ability to not care about a person’s opinions of you.

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Loving My Money

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau “I love the work that I do, that doesn’t mean that I will love the work you want me to do.” — Justin Lloyd “I love the work that I do…

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Five More Minutes?

Give five minutes of your time. Give five minutes of your time for free to anyone and everyone you meet. Literally just five minutes. That five minutes of advice, or talking about a problem, about just listening to a problem, provides incalculable value to people. If in that five minutes you have not had a…

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Everybody Has One

Opinions, birthdays and assholes. Everyone has one. Unfortunately due to Facebook I have seen or been reminded of least two of those attributes about you.

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That Was Deliberate!

I am frequently asked “How did you get good at X?” where you can substitute cooking, coding, project management, marketing, business development or a couple of other subjects. Unfortunately the question is easily answered but the answer is not easily heard. “Lots and lots of deliberate practice.” Pick a problem to solve, then solve it.…

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Counting Off The Past

I measure everything. Everything… Yes, even that. And that. Yes, and that too. But what I measure most is myself of today against myself of yesterday. I quantify my output and productivity regularly: How many words did I write today? How many emails did I respond too? How many emails did I delete without responding?…

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Regretful Mistakes

I’d rather regret something that I did than regret something that I did not.

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How Who Now?

The mark of the true teacher isn’t in teaching you the how, but in teaching you the why.

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The Not Invisible Mode

I leave Skype on all the time. When someone attempts to engage in conversation that I don’t have time for or I just don’t want to talk to, I politely state “Sorry, I don’t have time to chat with you right now and I have no ETA on when I will have the bandwidth to…

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Socially Awkward

Pick one random person in your organisation you’ve never had a one-on-one lunch with and ask them to lunch with you. Socially awkward? Yes. Get over it. If you can do it, you’re on the path to being a sales person, but more importantly, you’re on the path to having a great career. Two tips…

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Shame!

“Man up.” “Grow a pair.” “That’s juvenile.” “That’s unprofessional.” Trite phrases we throw out there when we have run out of valid points in our argument and hope to shame the other person in to submission. It only works on you if you allow it to.

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But Can It Feel?

The first true A.I. will be in the cloud. The second true A.I. will be in your phone. The third true A.I. will autonomously pass us by on the street and we won’t even notice.

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Damned Either Way

Your critics will damn you if you do, and damn you if you don’t. I’d rather be damned because I did, than be damned because I did not.

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I’ll Pay, But You Can Take Your Damn Hand Out Of My Pocket

I like to pay it forward and do so several times per week. I do not like to be scolded because I rejected the opportunity to drop everything and hurry off to spend several months working on a non-validated idea from a person with no track record of having achieved anything in life.

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Death By Billable Hours

I would have to say that oDesk and eLance and its ilk are poor sources to mine for well paying, serious mobile development projects. Because these websites permit a lowest common denominator approach to both proposing projects and bidding on projects, you are dealing with many potential clients who want to try and launch an…

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Let’s All Go To La-La-Land

L.A.? You want to know what L.A. is? L.A is driving two miles in bumper to bumper traffic for an hour to pay $15 for parking so you can have a $7 coffee.

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