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03 Dec 09

How To Find and Ignite Your Passion

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30 Nov 09

How to Live Anywhere and Work Any Time | Task Blog

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02 Oct 09

Being in charge means being an adult - I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

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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

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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.

24 Sep 09

Opacity

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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.

22 Sep 09

58 Motivational Songs to Keep You Going - Jamie Harrop - Young Entrepreneur

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Motivational Songs - DIGTD - Making You More Productive

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26 Aug 09

Interview with Frank Kern and John Reese

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the traits that cause them to take massive action and follow through

20 Aug 09

Blog Usability: Top 10 Weblog Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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On the main page for each category, highlight that category's evergreens as well as a time line of its most recent postings.

19 Aug 09

Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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- 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.

16 Aug 09

How to Set Goals You Will Actually Achieve

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The only value in goal-setting is that it improves the quality of your present moment reality.
Set goals that yield a positive effect on your life whenever you think about them, long before the final outcome is actually achieved. Treat goal-setting as a way to enhance your present reality, not as a way to control the future.

14 Aug 09

Seth's Blog: How to be remarkable

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Commit
Remarkable doesn't mean remarkable to you. It means remarkable to me.
Am I going to make a remark about it?
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- Being noticed is not the same
  as being remarkable.
- Extremism in the pursuit of
  remarkability is no sin.
- Remarkability lies in the edges.
- It doesn't always matter which edge,
  more that you're at (or beyond) the edge.
- Your goal isn't to please everyone. Your goal is to please
  those that actually speak up, spread the word, buy new things or hire
  the talented.
- Part of what it takes to do something
  remarkable is to do something first and best
- No use being remarkable at something that people don't care about.
  Not ALL people, mind you, just a few. A few people insanely focused on
  what you do is far far better than thousands of people who might be
  mildly interested, right?
- if you
  don't reinvest and reinvent, you won't be for long

06 Aug 09

Seth Godin on why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department - Business of Software Blog

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31 Jul 09

How to be a program manager - Joel on Software

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my job wasn’t necessarily to solve problems, it was to figure out what customers needed and make sure that programmers figured out how to solve them.
being effective as a program manager means you have to (a) be right, and (b) earn the respect of the programmers so that they concede that you’re right.
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- How do you earn this respect?
- It helps, as a program manager, to be pretty good at coding yourself.
- The other way to earn the programming team’s respect is to demonstrate intelligence, open-mindedness, and fairness in any debates that come up.
- If a program manager says dumb things, the programmer might flip the bozo bit on them. If a program manager becomes personally or emotionally attached to a certain way of doing things, to the point at which they’re being unreasonable, they’re going to lose a lot of credibility… both sides, but especially the program manager, need to be emotionally detached from the debate and willing to consider new evidence and change their opinions when the facts merit it. Finally, if a program manager is seen as playing politics, having private meetings with the boss or trying to divide-and-conquer to win a debate instead of debating on the merits, they’re going to lose a lot of trust of the programmers.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint - Exupery.

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28 Jul 09

How to Read Blogs | The LifeMaven

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How To Understand (and Create) A Personal Financial Statement Each Month In 5 Minutes

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Choose Your Friends Wisely — Set Higher Standards

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If your friends are constantly going out and drinking, and you aspire to have a clean and healthy body, a change must be made. If you are looking to become an entrepeneur, and all your friends are satisfied in corporate jobs with no entrepeneurial spirit, a change must be made. The change doesn’t mean that you need to get rid of your existing circle of friends.
no matter what aspect of life you are trying to improve, there are others who are either on the same journey or have achieved what you are trying to achieve. Find these people. Surround yourself with them. Learn from them and help them grow.