July 2008
44 posts
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
– Richard M. Nixon
What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami →
Using the recent autobiography in the New Yorker by Murakami to find your passion in work. I like smart shit.
You Are Probably Not Listening To Your Employees... →
These things seem obvious to me. Treat employees as good as your customers and they will be happy and more productive.
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep...”
– Hemingway
Are Online Ad Dollars Being Wasted On Gen Y? →
Generation Y (ages 18-28) may be the most Web-savvy group, but new research suggests that a lot of online ad dollars are being wasted on them. Why? Because they spend less than anyone else online — even less than honest-to-god oldsters (64+), according to Forrester Research.
Average environments beget average work -... →
“Good people do bad work or worse all the time Just think of all the great people and startups that have disappeared into some big borg of a company, only to come out after a few years on the other side with little to show for the trip. Even so-called exceptional people can do unmemorable work when they’re placed in inept environments.”
Johnah Lehrer on Eureka Moments in the New Yorker →
“To love someone is to identify with them.”
– Aristotle
“If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or...”
– Stephen Covey
“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love...”
– Alice Thomas Ellis
“Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of...”
– Emerson
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be...”
– Winston Churchill
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you...”
– Robert Fritz
“Do everything you can to avoid taking money.”
– Mark Cuban on startups
“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character...”
– Emerson
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile...”
– Henry Ford
“Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money...”
– Steve Martin
The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of... →
Oh 37signals, you brilliant company you. How many testicles would I give to work for you? More than the amount of testicles I would give to work for Google and Facebook combined. Its still zero, but hell. This article goes through the starting stages of 37signals when they still did client work. A lot of great ideas for anyone starting a media based service company of anykind.
Creativity can thrive, if you keep the e-mail in... →
Some old news on information overload.
“When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When...”
– Maria Irene Fornes - Cuban American Playwright
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– Emerson
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we...”
– Andre Dubus
“What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of...”
– Andre Dubus
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what...”
– Harry S Truman
Neuromarketing » The Power of FREE! →
Fuels of the Future - Entrepreneur.com →
Content Advertising Explained - Part 3 →
PPC Advertising: Art or Science? →
Malcom Galdwell on Hiring Practices →
Brain Food Chart →
Two simple web businesses →
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design,...”
– Twitter / Jeffrey Zeldman: Content precedes design. De…
Young and old brains differ in encoding positive... →
Google Launches Affiliate Network →
Adobe Makes Flash Searchable →