Recent Posts in ‘better’
Devouring The Passage
It’s 105 degrees here which means the one-person preferred pastime experience is reading, but not ordinary reading. The summer is the time to find something to devour. I have an endless queue of business books and professional articles that will eventually trickle down into my subconscious or become obsolete. The great thing about reading about
What’s an MBA good for, anyway?
Ok, I get it. Well, sort of. There’s a blog article from OnStartups – 10 things that you won’t learn about business from MBA School. It’s easy to climb onto the “bash MBA” bandwagon. There are plenty of people that boast their MBA pedigree or continuously look for opportunities to reference their pumped-up mental muscles.
Google Voice or Youmail
I just received my anticipated invite to Google Voice and now I have a dilemma – GV or Youmail, which I’ve been using for over a year. What I love about Youmail Different outgoing voice mail for different contact groups or even individuals Example: My wife gets Darth Vader, clients hear something less Darth. Visual
Unload the gun
How many times have you sent an email with an embarrassing typo, forgot to include someone on the message or just plain said something that you wish you could take back? Once you click send, you’re committed. Take the bullet out of the chamber (not sure why this never occurred to me) by adding your
Deconnecting
Just completed a massive scrub of all of my social networks – deleting every connection that I had little reason to connect with. Where there is obligation, there is also risk – at least opportunity risk. When your network of friends gets too big, you risk not investing enough in the ones that matter most.
The Circle is now Complete
After a brief hiatus to get the business steamrolling – I’m committed to 30 days of blogging. I’ve now been able to complete my transition to gmail with this simple app, gattach, which does 2 things. 1 it makes GMAIL my default email service, so I don’t have to cancel the start-up of outlook every
The Purge
Despite the obvious Lost reference, this is about getting rid of stuff I don’t need and managing the things that I actually use. If I haven’t used it, worn it or remembered it in six months, it’s gone. I don’t live by this policy religiously and I don’t keep a running list of every item’s
Revised Revolutions and Resolutions
A week before the end of 2008 I had all ready started the process of setting resolutions for 2009. At first, I planned on being as careful as possible to make each objective specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, etc… Such specific controls are not always realistic or personally meaningful. Being strategic is important, but you have
Positive Partnering
I could probably start an entire blog about partner / equity sharing horror stories and missed opportunities. There seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between great opportunities and terrible partnerships. There is little disappointment about plain old bad businesses. It’s when things go right or could have gone right and things fall apart that