Steve Cohen makes more than a million dollars a year doing magic tricks,And it's a huge pain in the neck to do reliably Bamboo because it's fast growing and Asian and gentle and wood and grass at the same time,PS I've received so much interest in this I've started a wiki on this topic so you can find fellow travelers
If Wal-Mart or some cultural shift has turned what you do into a commodity, don't argue,like a sailor on shore leave, we're not so picky It doesn't matter if your instructions are crystal clear,A small bug working its way across a gravel driveway takes forever
Conferences aren't like this, and neither are meetings,The past investments are over, lost, gone forever Doug Rushkoff came by, as did designer Red Maxwell,Snark is fun, but it doesn't look good on you
Some will appear on the end papers in the next printing of my book,' We prefer the vivid anecdote to the dry and statistically useful fact, which in a complex world, is to our detriment Is this a different sort of work? Is raising your hand in class too much to ask of you?,Sometimes, the work is the work and the goal isn't to top what you did yesterday
Hard is hiring someone better than you to do this part of the job,Relentlessly asking the right questions is a long term career, mostly because no one ever knows the right answer on a regular basis Nonlinear lets you import a PDF or PPT file and then jump around,A talented person willing to trade income for the chance to do what he loves, with freedom
In today's million channel universe, though, those arbiters are a lot less powerful,Very few of your prospects literally can't afford it Here's your present, go spend it on what you really want,Without this blog, it's really unlikely that I'd get even a bid or two on it
Chipmunks, wolves and other wild animals rarely get jealous,I don't understand blog posts, emails and other messages that begin with an apology Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way,I visited a favorite restaurant last week, a place that, alas, I hadn't been to in months
The best work, at least for me, is the stuff you get to do,The truism of the web: people talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself They don't grow and improve, because they're not organized to do so,It's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem
If you want to understand why Twitter is so hot, look at those five attributes,It's entirely possible that you will choose a niche that's too small When you create a presentation, think about what your status will be as you begin the presentation,That's not easy, which is why it's worth it
A blog delivers a series of longer pieces, sandwiched in between other pieces by the same person,Same trick works for alphabetizing words or sorting kids in order by height And give me instant sympathy, maybe a little empathy too,And the flagship restaurant makes getting a reservation almost impossible
The firms could have found great people at half the price, except that with only one axis, they had to be at the top if their peers were,I'm fascinated by the way the marketplace treats non-fiction books, particularly business books Every time I go, they look for a reason not to ship my package,That boring staff? They're perfectly well qualified
I'm not sure, really sure, guaranteed, that this is a good idea,But, personally, I don't see how you will be able to get enough subscribers to support it You know there were hundreds before, there's one now, and there will be another soon, perhaps in just a few minutes,How can you study an idea or a trend or a belief system if you also accept it as a universal, unquestionable fact?
