Three, four or even six hours a day not spent doing virtually nothing,What if this were my last post? Would this post be worthy? I guess I'm talking about passive contributions of public behavior information to traditionally-sorted data,When athletes beat the system by doping, the system adjusts so it's either a lot more difficult or less of an advantage
Coke and Nike and Marlboro are a lot more powerful than Jiffy Pop,A non-traditional arrangement can make people sit up and take notice It's entirely possible it could be used that way, but it doesn't owe you anything,If you have credit card debt, you're in big trouble
Google, of course, is the Marilyn Monroe of search,Dave made the ideas even easier to share by putting them into a PDF Well, just like parades for July 4th or Flag Day, there's a luck parade,Sorry if you didn't make the cut this time
Stew Leonard's, which used to be my favorite supermarket example, is architected to extract large amounts of money from customers,In fact, this process actually saves Verizon money One day, you may be lucky enough to have a scarcity problem,In my book, I point out that with classified ads disappearing and the web thriving, the days of newspapers as we know them are clearly over
They write about the big checks VCs hand out and they lionize the organizations that make a splash,[Example: In the last month, four of my books have been mentioned in the NY Times To really stand for something, you must make difficult decisions, mostly about what you don't do,It's essentially impossible to tell a story to an entire population and have it resonate with all of them
The change I want to make in the world, unfortunately, does not itself generate much money,Microsoft has fallen into a trap that befalls many large companies in search of cred, buzz or respect A rock star exists in his own unique space, and if you met him you probably wouldn��t like him,Andrew Kaufman's book does the same thing, but in a totally different way--with text that has the same power of a great cartoon
If you bring your bike in for a tune up, it will cost $39 and take a week,Not a note book, a tool for writing down facts Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy,By putting something up for all to see, you start conversations or remind people of the mission
I was mildly interested in the new biography of Henry Luce,it wouldn't have launched if it hadn't pleased the boss or the client, right? Pleasing the wrong person meant failure A teeny bop rock group might convert 20% of concert goers to buy a shirt or souvenir,I'm not saying they are wrong or right, just pointing out that these behaviors make you open to being manipulated
Or, parsed another way, my idea is not brand new,So it's really easy to misinterpret a few as a deluge We think we're hiring someone to do the second type, a once in a lifetime teacher, someone who will change the outlook of stellar students,This makes perfect sense��people are good at different things
And this is the secret of lowering your handicap,This is the stage in which incremental effort leads to not so much visible increase in quality Competent--wants the ability to make plans, create routines and choose among activities4,One of my favorites is my friend Michael's role in the book industry
None of these are new, but in the digital world, they're still magnetic,He trained others, turned it into a movement If you have respect, but no love, you're like one of the rare self-promotional talks at TED,Put a sign on your office door, or send a memo to the team
They're not earning interest unless people are reading them,Sort of turns the whole idea of 'cool' upside down Standing for something means giving up a lot of other things, and opening yourself to criticism,what's the point? No sense being kind, looking people in the eye, being open or welcoming or grateful
