“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb Here’s stuff that tickled me brain this week: Andy Cranberry referenced this article as an argument for the prodmans’ continued existence. Contrast with Posterous founder’s article about the last thing a product needs is a [...]
SNASK from Mike Crozier. Croz is also an illustrator and graphic designer whose work is reminiscent of Barry McGee and the rest of that mid-2000′s illustration revolution that’s still in effect in design circles – lots of hand-drawn patterns and wrinkly, burly cartoon men. I’m a fan of his pizza box work, like this one: [...]
I recently published a 2-part article about successful OpenSky sellers on the OpenSky blog. Check ‘em out: 5 characteristics of a successful OpenSky seller, part 1 5 characteristics of a successful OpenSky seller, part 2 Thanks to Matt Bijur from KickApps (where I worked before OpenSky, insert shareholder disclaimer here) for talking to me about [...]
I have been a product manager long enough that I’ve begun to frame much of my world view in prodman terms – just this past weekend I spent an afternoon cruising the aisles of a supermarket, searching for foodstuffs and thinking “and this is exactly why folksonomies trump hierarchical taxonomies!” (if this sounds interesting, check [...]
The NY Times recently interviewed Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Most of the published conversation focuses on building a good corporate culture. When asked for his best interview question, Tony offered this: What would you say is the biggest misperception that people have of you? Really good one. I usually ask “if I called someone who [...]
Reminders from Tim Ferriss for being productive instead of being busy Via BNet. I love Tim. Seriously. Elimination, not organization, is key Single task – focus on start-to-finish completion of a few critical tasks Pareto principle (80/20) – you’ll get 80% of results from best 20% actions Divorce effort from results – performance instead of [...]
By “cool” I mean “old.” But still, if you know anyone who needs any of this stuff, hook a brother up. Nonprofit? Deductable donations? Email me and we’ll talk free. Buy in bulk and get a discount! Hacker’s PC, peripherals, and software – $170 or free Charities, please contact me – I’d rather donate this [...]
When I earned my first paycheck from a real post-collegiate job, I headed out onto the town to Buy Stuff. I was intoxicated. I was finally self-sufficient and eager to celebrate my new found spending power. The first order of business: cast aside a lifetime of sartorial decisions guided by back to school sales, the [...]
Interesting statement from an article by Emily Yoffe on Slate (the rest of the piece is a mini-memoir on the Facebook experience and doesn’t add much meat): Brenda Bradley, a Cambridge University zoologist doing research on primate evolution [...] explained a theory about what drove the evolution of human intelligence: It was the need to [...]
Well, I’m mostly done with the “migration” part of this little exercise. I used some great scripts found online (will update with links later) that got my content and links over but lost some critical metadata including categories, timestamps, and published/unpublished settings. This led to the shocking dicovery that a full 40% of my blog [...]