I had the most stressful vacation ever last week because I had to go car shopping each day. I’m not a huge fan of haggling with used car salesmen so one might think that this promptly ruined my vacation but strangely enough just the the opposite happened.
Should you create a product that you love or one you believe other people will love?
Our very own Charles Williams recently published an NES ringtone pack on his blog. If the mention of games like Duckhunt, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Bros 3 find you hearkening back to the good old days, then you should appreciate this. Enjoy.
There’s a simple question we do our best to avoid- “Why?” It’s only one word but it packs quite a wallop. It’s a difficult question because it makes us question our assumptions, which isn’t normally comfortable but is almost always profitable.
Lot’s of consultants, books, and bosses encourage better time management. Clear checklists, more efficient meetings, and the ability to discern between the urgent and the important are all touted as the keys to career success. However, not everyone agrees with this theory.
Most web copy sucks. We’re so afraid of offending or turning someone away that we play it safe and write copy that sounds like other ‘professional’ websites. This means we rarely offend but also rarely engage. Here’s a quote from a random small business website.
If you consider yourself an idea junky; if the future interests your more than the past or present; if you’re into technology, entertainment, and design; then friend you need to check out TED.com. Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.
In his book The War of Art author Steven Pressfield describes the well known adversary of anyone who’s attempted to accomplish something significant, Resistance. That old devil that wants us to do anything but what we should be doing, our work. We organize sock drawers, shuffle papers, fiddle around on some random website, all the while kidding ourselves that we’re accomplishing something, but the truth is we’re giving into resistance, and we know it.
Lot’s of people think they’re paid for the number of hours they’re ‘on the clock’ each day. These folks are always bragging about their long hours as though this legitimizes the value they’re bringing to the company.
Whenever we say something like, “I really like Bob. He’s friendly and intelligent. The world would be a better place if there were more people like him.” What we’re actually saying is, “Bob really likes me. He thinks I’m friendly and intelligent. He thinks the world of me.”