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"He talks about clearing your life of posessions, how you should divide everything into four..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:57:01 +0000

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He talks about clearing your life of posessions, how you should divide everything into four categories: 1. Beautiful things. 2. Things with emotional value. 3. Functional things. 4. Everything else.

Divide each category into the things you keep and the things you get rid of. In category 1, you can keep it if it’s on display in your house, if you show it to your friends, if you share it. If not, then you don’t need it, it’s taking up space and time, which you’re paying for with your money, time and health. Take a picture, put it on a thumb drive, take it everywhere with you and get rid of the original. In category 2, if it has a compelling story, one that you actually tell people, you can keep it. In category 3, unless it’s very good at what it does and it does something you do a lot of, it goes. And of course everything in category 4 goes.

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- Scripting News / Bruce Sterling

"Notice me"

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:24:23 +0100

"Notice me"

"That most of the technology and many of the services I try are ephemeral. Two years later, I can’t..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:45 +0100

“That most of the technology and many of the services I try are ephemeral. Two years later, I can’t remember why I liked ThisNext or DailyCandy or even Twitterific. They have a minor utility to a small number of people, along with games and pink Dells. Although they have been funded, and continue to operate, they don’t solve a big enough problem for me to get excited about. I give them all a chance, and then blow them off”

- Google Wave, WWSGD, Tweetie 2 and the iPhone (via feedly)

"The best marketers I know make up rules for themselves and they don’t break them. It’s..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:56:27 +0100

“The best marketers I know make up rules for themselves and they don’t break them. It’s very easy to surrender to the moment and walk over to the next hill. It’s more productive to climb this hill instead”

- Traction and friction (via feedly)

"We also touched on how corporations and other organizations can produce results that don’t fit with..."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:59:12 +0100

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We also touched on how corporations and other organizations can produce results that don’t fit with the good intentions of the people who run them or work for them.

That last part is where this piece comes in.

This is where Google tries to steal the web.

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- http://talkbiz.com/blog/google-steals-the-web/#more-56

"Price services for yourself - not for your clients If you do consulting to pay the bills, make sure..."

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:20:24 +0100

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Price services for yourself - not for your clients

If you do consulting to pay the bills, make sure you take ample time for both, and charge on the value you provide, and provide the value you charge.

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- http://www.stuntdubl.com/2009/10/05/business-lessons/

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:28:27 +0100

““The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.””

- Unknown (via feedly)

"0% of a really big number is still zero.What direct marketers have always understood is that you..."

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:50:50 +0100

“0% of a really big number is still zero.What direct marketers have always understood is that you must make something work in the small before you bet the farm and market it to the masses. If you can’t sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?”

- Less than zero (via feedly)

"If it’s not good enough for you as a consumer, why should it be good enough for you as a..."

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:23:34 +0100

“If it’s not good enough for you as a consumer, why should it be good enough for you as a marketer?”

- Sell like you buy (via feedly)

"I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way."

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:20:22 +0100

““I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.””

- Carl Sandburg (via feedly)

"Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying..."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:14:07 +0100

“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save yourself a lot of time by working on the right thing. Working hard, even, if that’s what you like to do”

- More Important Than Working Hard (via feedly)

"The challenge in growing a business is in building assets daily, and doing it for less money than..."

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:44:56 +0100

“The challenge in growing a business is in building assets daily, and doing it for less money than those assets end up being worth. Your expenses should generate assets”

- Do marketers have assets? (via feedly)

"I’m always surprised when people set aside a period of time to build links to their website. Link..."

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:22:23 +0100

“I’m always surprised when people set aside a period of time to build links to their website. Link building is far too important not to spend at least 24 hours a day doing it”

- The Most Important Question When Linkbuilding (via feedly)

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:43:38 +0100

““Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.””

- Mark Twain (via feedly)

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:43:14 +0100

““The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.””

- Harlan Ellison (via feedly)

"Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:43:06 +0100

““Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.””

- Spike Milligan (via feedly)

"Almost from their birth in 1971, microprocessors experienced steep inverted pricing. The..."

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:48:00 +0100

“Almost from their birth in 1971, microprocessors experienced steep inverted pricing. The chip’s pricing plunge is called Moore’s Law, after Gordon Moore, the Intel engineer who first observed the amazing, steady increase in computer power per dollar. Moore’s Law states that computer chips are halving in price, or doubling in power every 18 months”

- Feedback loops saturate networks. (via feedly)

"A while back Johnnie pointed out to me that customers now have the technological advantage over..."

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:09:41 +0100

“A while back Johnnie pointed out to me that customers now have the technological advantage over companies. Anyone who boots up their corporate laptop and then goes to make a cup of tea while the processor sorts through a million security patches and firewall protocols, will understand this”

- The Need For Speed (via feedly)

"Rather be dead than cool"

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:57:09 +0100

““Rather be dead than cool””

- Kurt Cobain quotes (via feedly) (via feedly)

"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:40:53 +0100

““I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.””

- William H. Mauldin (via feedly)