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You get a finite number of years on this planet – make the most of all of them, no matter what is going on around you.
Feld Thoughts: Recommendation – Ignore All The 2009 Predictions (via fred-wilson)
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Day 9
My girlfriend informs me that there’s a black widow nesting in a drainpipe near our garage. I have now been on the GTD program for several days and am a next-action machine. I say out loud to myself in a robot voice, “Processing … dot dot dot …” I head outside, already planning my next action: “Pour water down drain to send spider on river rampage to Jesus.” On the way, however, I discover a dead squirrel. Protocol interrupted. How do you dispose of a dead squirrel?
Wired: Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek
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You could be more gracious than if you’d won the work. You could send a thank you note for the time invested, you could sing the praises of the vendor chosen in your stead and you could congratulate the buyer, “based on the criteria you set out, it’s clear that you made exactly the right choice for your organization right now.” That doesn’t mean the criteria were right, it just means that you’re not attacking the person for being an impulsive lunatic. You could even outline what you learned from the process and what you’ll be changing in the future. And you can make it clear that you’re in it for more than just a sale, and you’ll be around if they ever need you.
Seth’s Blog: Two ways to deal with “no”
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A portfolio of fun
One of my favorite aspects of this method is that you end up with a mini-portfolio of game design ideas. Instead of putting all the design risk in a project on one or two unproven mechanic, the team now has a half dozen or more proven bits of fun to build upon. If some don’t fit into the game or get abandoned for other reasons, that’s alright. You can afford to lose a few and the end product will still be fun. Think of it as designing from a position of plenty.
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Классики о маркетологах
«Encyclopaedia Galactica» дает такое определение робота: «механический аппарат, предназначенный для выполнения работы человека». Отдел
сбытамаркетинга корпорации Сириус Кибернетикс дает свое определение: «Ваш пластмассовый дружок, веселее с ним денек».«Галактический Путеводитель» следующим образом определяет Отдел
сбытамаркетинга корпорации Сириус Кибернетикс: «сборище полоумных идиотов, которых первыми поставят к стенке после революции», со сноской, извещающей читателя, что издатели с благодарностью примут на работу желающих занять место корреспондента по вопросам роботехники.Любопытно отметить, что издание «Encyclopaedia Galactica», которое благодаря счастливой случайности выскользнуло через трещину во времени из будущего, отстоящего от нас на тысячу лет, определяет Отдел
сбытамаркетинга корпорации Сириус Кибернетикс как «сборище полоумных идиотов, которых первыми поставили к стенке после революции».Дуглас «Наше всё» Адамс, Путеводитель по галактике для путешествующих автостопом
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
What if Gall’s Law were true? - Bokardo
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I should warn all potential readers that once you get interested in the world of plane crashes, it becomes very hard to tear yourself away. I’m still obsessed.
gladwell dot com - outliers
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Idea: Random Wiki Story
- Open 4 or more browser tabs, and load a Random Wikipedia Page in each
- Read (at least) the introduction for each article
- Make notes and think about connections, characters, and conflicts
- Write a one page fiction story inspired by the articles
I’d originally done the tab thing as a way to try and learn something new and esoteric each day. But most times I do it, I find myself unintentionally making a story out of the random articles. Which seemed insane until I had this other idea.
Anyhow, might inspire me to try a bit of fiction, just for fun. If nothing else it seems like a nice warm-up exercise to nimble up the fingers and the brain.
