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DailyGood: The Fun Theory: Piano Stairs on 2009-11-10
Cancer is not a Disease by Andreas Moritz - HealthBookSummaries.com on 2009-11-04
Being in charge means being an adult - I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell on 2009-10-02
- This means I can’t be the selfish, self-contained, me-against-the-world, fuck-you-if-you-can’t-take-a-joke Tucker I have always been. That attitude was great and necessary when it literally was just me, when no one believed in me and no one thought I would succeed and I had to find the strength to keep going in the face of impossible odds. That attitude–plus hard work–is what helped me beat those odds and is what got me to where I am…but it won’t take me from where I am to where I want to be.
Seth's Blog: Labor Day on 2009-10-02
- You could argue, "Hey, I work weekends and pull all-nighters. I start early and stay late. I'm always on, always connected with a BlackBerry. The FedEx guy knows which hotel to visit when I'm on vacation." Sorry. Even if you're a workaholic, you're not working very hard at all.
- The future is about work that's really and truly hard, not time-consuming. It's about the kind of work that requires us to push ourselves, not just punch the clock. Hard work is where our job security, our financial profit, and our future joy lie.
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- - It's hard work to make difficult emotional decisions, such as quitting a job and setting out on your own. It's hard work to invent a new system, service, or process that's remarkable. It's hard work to tell your boss that he's being intellectually and emotionally lazy.
  - Today, working hard is about taking apparent risk. Not a crazy risk like betting the entire company on an untested product. No, an apparent risk: something that the competition (and your coworkers) believe is unsafe but that you realize is far more conservative than sticking with the status quo.
  - None of the people who are racking up amazing success stories and creating cool stuff are doing it just by working more hours than you are. And I hate to say it, but they're not smarter than you either. They're succeeding by doing hard work.
  - Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And, after you've done that, to do it again the next day.
Opacity on 2009-09-24
- Language
  is largely made to show-off, gossip, confuse people, delude
  them, charm them, seduce them, scare them, exploit them, etc.
  And, as a side effect, convey information. Just a side effect, you
  fools.
58 Motivational Songs to Keep You Going - Jamie Harrop - Young Entrepreneur on 2009-09-22
Motivational Songs - DIGTD - Making You More Productive on 2009-09-22
Interview with Frank Kern and John Reese on 2009-08-26
- the traits that cause them to take massive action and follow through
Blog Usability: Top 10 Weblog Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) on 2009-08-20
- On the main page for each category, highlight that category's evergreens as well as a time line of its most recent postings.
Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) on 2009-08-19
- If you want many readers, focus on short and scannable content. This is a good strategy for advertising-driven sites or sites that sell impulse buys.
  If you want people who really need a solution, focus on comprehensive coverage. This is a good strategy if you sell highly targeted solutions to complicated problems.
- Typically, people who really need something are the highest-value users because they're more likely to turn into paying customers. That's why I recommended writing articles instead of blog postings.
  
  But the very best content strategy is one that mirrors the users' mixed diet. There's no reason to limit yourself to only one content type. It's possible to have short overviews for the majority of users and to supplement them with in-depth coverage and white papers for those few users who need to know more.