December 4, 2007 – 9:50 pm
…or maybe it should be why I need heroes…
I’m not talking about the television series, although I do heart it very much. But I was watching the finale and waxing to myself why I do love it so much and came up with a really good reason: Hope.
I mean, we aren’t living in times of [...]
December 1, 2007 – 5:24 pm
An inability to see the long-term consequences of their bad short-term decisions:
December 1, 2007 – 4:21 pm
As a teenager, I continuously made really bad short term decisions that ended up hurting me in the long term. Often I would tell a lie, that would need to be compounded by an additional lie, which would end up being multiply compounded by a web of lies in order to get away with something [...]
November 8, 2007 – 9:31 pm
You probably don’t know who I am, but I am one of your customers (and a marketer as well, but that’s beside the point, I’m a customer first). I am writing you in regards to the fact that you are missing every opportunity possible to snag my business and, instead, seem to be working really [...]
October 30, 2007 – 7:46 pm
On Sunday night, Chris and I returned from an awesome gathering of super smart peeps in Oaxaca, where we discussed many random things and wonders. One of the cool things we discussed (amongst many) was the giant hairball that is our seriously divided country (USA).
A particularly bright lightbulb went off for me when Christian [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:44 pm
Many companies have spent alot of advertising dollars to tell us what’s wrong with the competition. I spent the last US election, wondering what each candidate really had to offer since all I heard from them was what their rival did (or was going to do) wrong. I constantly hear from startups who talk about [...]
September 18, 2007 – 8:42 pm
In my recent presentation at e.day, my “5 sure-fire steps to transforming yourself from a spammer into a connector” (said with booming voice) were:
Turn that bullhorn around: stop talking and start listening
Be part of the community you serve: get out of the boardroom and into the community
Design for maximum happiness: design products that delight people
Embrace [...]