I’m posting partly because I loved Van Halen in high school and partly because I was surprised to see them on the Interwebs this way.
Business Advice From Van Halen
My challenge to you is this, where are your brown M&Ms?
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On Brown M&Ms and Cutting Class
February 24th, 2010Avoiding the Important
February 23rd, 2010I’m reading the 4-hour Workweek right now, and one of the principles author Timothy Ferriss repeats over and over is to remind yourself to not invent things to do just to avoid doing the important things. Taking that into mind, yesterday I filled out a sticky note of things that I wanted to do today, and stuck it squarely in the center of my monitor, vowing to focus on the most important things. It’s still there, and I’m actually moving my windows around the note, trying to read my email first anyway. Even now, I’m typing this quick post around the sticky note. Clearly, I have a problem with avoiding the important. More to come.
Arcade-style A|B Testing
February 16th, 2010If only all A|B testing was this easy!
Omniture’s Pick the Winner Game
I’ll have to download the white paper and see what they are willing to share. My guess is that this is a funny way to garner brand loyalty from those of us that get a kick out of this kind of stuff.
The Dip, by Seth Godin
February 2nd, 2010
In an appreciably small book, Seth Godin focus in on the period in life when increased effort yields the same or worse results. Convention wisdom teaches that this is the time to “stick it out” and that quitters never win. But Godin counters with this insight, “Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”
The Dip is a quick exploration of how we get into this dip and when we should stick it out and when we never should have been there. The key is knowing beforehand if it will be worth all the effort, adds Godin, “you should outline your quitting strategy before the discomfort sets in.”
Do you have the guts to quit so that you can succeed at the right thing? Do you really believe that you can be really successful at the right thing, not just average at something?
Interesting stuff. Read it for a quick insight into the things that you may be failing at because you won’t quit.
New Development Process
January 21st, 2010After working out a development process based on Scrum for a presentation, I thought that I had really struck gold with what I had. It was agile, it was quick, it had good transparency and accountability… and then a late suggestion came that has turned my plans up-side down. It’s called WACD (pronounced ‘whacked’). This could be the future of all development… and if it is, I will look into farming or something as my next career.
Prototyping
January 13th, 2010The creation of all great products begins with the prototype, unless you’re a genius. Certain that I am not a genius, I’ve used various methods of prototyping, including pencil sketches, storyboards, wireframes, the paper browser, mockups and the infamous napkin. A good friend of mine who is starting his own venture pointed me at this list of 10 free prototyping tools. I’ve tried HotGloo and have been satisfied, but I think I’ll take some time to try out some of the others. Enjoy.
10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications from Speckboy.com.
