That's okay, as long as you really don't have a choice--you need a system like this, and they have it,There isn't one in the top 10 that's personal Another reader wrote in complaining about Apple's insistence that they don't want to know about your great ideas,Of course, sometimes the thing you want is on the other side of that body of water
I don't know about you, but I'm getting plenty of emails asking for more money for various political campaigns,If each one had been made out of chocolate instead of digits, they would have made a pile taller than the Empire State Building It's a warning that people who are only good at one thing often believe that the one thing is the answer to every problem,But the real effect is that you're starving great content
Think about cutting down weight and customer angst by making pilfer-proof packaging that is lighter, easier to open and recyclable,Without knowing who you're reading, it's hard to judge the tone of voice of what you're hearing Just about a year ago, I published The Dip,That company we switched from last week? Instead of ruining our relationship and criticizing our judgment, they kept the door open
Yelling with gusto used to be the best way to advertise your wares,I don't collect photos where anyone is injured, just the ones where people are all weirded out You'd think that this happens because their success permits them to skip or delegate the have to tasks,It's the banal stuff in the middle that people don't read
the people you most want to sell to won't respond well to this,Please let me know if your order is for one of these events The secret for many magicians, it turns out, is video,This seems like an easy problem to solve extraordinarily well and even charge for
Special incredible bonus: Tom Peters, too,The short-term consequences of an unstable stock market are real and uncomfortable Go through the list and decide whether or not it's worth it,Now that everyone has their own channel, their own newspaper, their own station, it's pretty shocking how low the average has sunk
People don't all sign up to work at Goldman Sachs,That meant a grueling marathon with the single worst voice routing VR system the world has ever known: Verizon I sent it back and was told it will take three or four weeks to process my return,Make a list of successful products in your industry
I'd ask for ideas for what to do if I got elected,Daily comics come out every day because that's when newspapers always came out Now, plenty of your development and marketing team will say, Oh, we'll just buy ads,Would it hurt your feelings if I told you that your picture made you look dumpy? Or that it was boring? Or way too outre?
I still remember years ago, going to Canadian pricing meetings where we could discuss how to price our software for the Canadian market,There's also no doubt that spending four years at Yale is a mind-changing experience If you don't like it, you should rent the space instead,I got a ton of email this week about the Radiohead rollout
But on a micro level, on a personal level, this was a decade filled with opportunity,What are you going to do if you make a product for the right-handed portion of the population? Perhaps this is a good strategy for a pretzel vendor on the street, but is that the best you can hope for?,In the 260 weeks that accounted for the first half of the 1970s, it was 26
A tiny head start in access to this information gives you a huge advantage in the stock market,'Who' doesn't mean their resume, who means their attitudes and abilities and track record in shipping Gil Scott Heron's new album isn't free, but it's a gift,The only people who haven't gotten the memo are anxious helicopter parents, mass marketing colleges and traditional employers
A small nail holding the molding apparently isn't hammered in all the way,That's the conclusion of a very long essay on startups by Paul Graham, and it's an insightful quote Marketers at good causes have a real challenge as they try to raise money from people who aren't billionaires,I can create the talking pad files on my Mac or on the iPad using a builder app, and sync both ways
