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Automattic, the makers of this blogging platform, WordPress, bought Tumblr for less than 2% of it's previous acquisition price of $1.1B. The hype has died with another platform. And technology darwinism, survival of the fittest, the tried and true, is brutally pervasive. Social can make you feel
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Does it work? Was it designed in and for the real world? It's critical to take whatever idea you have and see if it stands up to the rigor and texture of people - customers, partners, critics, etc - in the real world. That's honest design.
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It can be hard to decipher whether people want to truly solve the problem you are thinking. But that first question can save a lot of trouble in projects, relationships and business if you can get what people want. Solving the problem you are thinking matters may not be the
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This interview with a navy seal breaking down a part of human nature with a renowned clinical psychologist is fascinating. This podcast interview between Jocko Willink and Jordan Peterson takes a look at how civility occurs. We want dangerous people that are disciplined. It's a temperament and a
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Today, we have too much information and technology, not too little. And information and tools are cheap and accessible. You can create value for others by curating information and sharing it specifically and personally. Sure, people share on social media, but it gets drowned out and is hard to consider
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We are always working on yesterday's commitments. And when we have committed, it's so easy to make those decisions sacred. Such reverence for our past commitments builds up continual clutter, drag and mediocrity in our work and lives. Without knowing it, we are managing many subpar
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I like to keep two checklists that I execute to keep my business moving: 1. Weekly Checklist - Actions that have to get done each week for operations 2. Daily Checklist - What is foundational to my personal and business goals Business tends to run on a weekly cadence. The
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When we are buried in the details of our work, it's hard to look around and see connections to worlds outside ourselves. We can be talking to the same people within our crowd, read the same blogs, and look at the world through a myopic lens. Some of
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“The main thing Is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~ Stephen Covey Keeping on the rails is so hard when our brain loves to pull us to distractions. It's not only the distractions, but we are barraged by other people's demands and priorities continually.
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You may have to build a business with 100 employees. Maybe a 1,000. That's the manpower tax to help get your product into the hands of your customer. Instagram had 13 employees serving 30 million users at a $500M valuation at one point. That's leverage.
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There is such a thing as decision fatigue. Your willpower and ability to make effective decisions changes over the course of a day from mental weariness. When it comes to trying to respond and keep up with the demands of knowledge work, it's hard to stay sharp and
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I don't do grand openings. If you have an idea, skills and the hard work to persist, simply get your first customers and start serving them. This idea that we are anything special out in the marketplace of hundreds of thousands of options is absurd. You have to