April 2009
10 posts
“Most of us begin our days with a continuous list of things we need to do to keep...”
– DailyOM - The Wonderment of Life
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”
– Baudelaire, via Inside the baby mind
Mechanical Turk changes how we understand labor →
Once you’re able to get over that hump of believing that human labor can only be an expensive, limited resource, an entire vista of compelling applications open up.
In 2002 I flew to Shanghai and sat beside a Chinese entrepreneur. He told me that if you wanted to count cars that passed through an intersection in China, you wouldn’t bother with creating fancy technology - you’d hire...
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.”
– General George Patton via “Speed and Tempo” - Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve Blank
Takeaways from Eric Ries' talk in Vancouver
Had the pleasure of attending a talk by Eric Ries here in Vancouver on Monday. Highly recommended, but here were the most interesting takeaways.
Don’t build software to anticipate problems. Endure *any* problem - but only once.
Getting Started Now with Continuous Deployment here’s Eric’s writeup with more detail)
1. Install a continuous integration server
2. Prevent...
The Cool Presidency →
A fascinating article on how Obama projects coolness.
The Science of When to Get Married →
Should you listen to your head or your heart?
“I mention this entire story because there are thousands of people all over...”
– This is how Social Media really works - Matt Haughey (via factoryjoe) (via rahmin)
Designing Pages to Sell
rahmin:
To understand this, we need to understand the psychology of the selling process. It’s not enough to list a bunch of features - features don’t sell. Benefits sell. Rather than thinking of a list of 10 features of your product that you want to talk about, think about 10 benefits to the customer that your product’s features can provide. Your sales process needs to tell a story about how the...