Over the last two weeks I have taken a break from this blog to examine my options, to decide the direction I want to take, to see where I want to go with it. I was not happy with where I was and I did not know what to do about it.
In the past, I [...]
Year after year, we hear that the number one reason businesses fail is they are under capitalized. That is much like saying all people die of heart failure. It is a technical, if very misleading, truth.
Yes, the reason they close is because they ran out of money, but they had other causes [...]
Over on Matt’s Blog, he wrote an incredible response to a question about people removing attribution links. It is one of the most powerful explanations of the power of open source I have ever seen.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the [...]
Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
(Joseph Addison; Act I, Scene 2, Cato)
The first person I ever knew with a blog was a travel writer named Jen Leo. She had just edited an award winning collection of short stories about women’s travel misadventures called Sand In My Bra (it is a very funny book) and she was on a tour of the country doing book signings. By some [...]
Ahhh, the pressure of blogging. It all starts innocently enough. You write a few posts, submit to a few blog carnivals, get picked up by a few mid list bloggers… the next thing you know, 4-500 people a day are stopping by to read your stuff, you have folks subscribing to your feeds, people emailing [...]
Hughism: Do Not Sell What It Is, Sell What It Does
I was at Home Depot the other day, wandering around in the power tool section, looking at tools I would never use, cannot operate, have no place to store and yet feel an overwhelming urge to buy… anyway, I digress.
As I stood there, enraptured [...]
In the Marines, I was taught an excellent management technique known as The Commander’s Intent. Like business, battle is a highly fluid situation. The more detailed you make your plans, the less likely they are going to pan out as you envision them (It was here that I learned my Ready. Fire. Aim technique). Because [...]
I am not sure how I missed it the other day, but in follow up to my mentioning Seth Godin’s Free eBook, a reader wrote in (Thanks Josh!) and pointed out a post from the other great one, Guy Kawasaki, on the Fine Art of Bootstrapping.
Guy says:
“I could build a case that too much money [...]
One of the problems with being a self-taught web geek is the gaps that exist in my knowledge. I can do major hacks and tweaks in css, I can hard code html from scratch in a text editor and I do NOT know how do do the nifty screen shots everyone else on the internet [...]