make new mistakes today, repeating old ones is not productive
good iteration is like walking through mud. Each step takes you forward using what learned with the previous steps, while leaving what doesn’t work behind (like your boots and socks)
the shittiest product that people want, will out sell the perfect product that no [...]
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After a lot of huffing and puffing my nipple ring was finally extracted (and ultimately lost), I was quite sad about that, and even more so later on when I realised I would never get it done again as I required MRIs every now and [...]
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The next day I drove again for an hour to my mother’s house. She worked in hospitals for 30 odd years, and I knew I wasn’t going to fool her with my staggering gait and my flailing arms. Instead I chose to tell her straight out that the day [...]
I was working in the IT department of a casino and we had been ramping up for the devil that was Y2K. The hysteria of the time had led to lots of government and corporate attention on our systems and the general feeling was “bugger planes falling out of the sky, we have to make [...]
There are so many people out there that try to convince the unwary that value lays in big numbers. They try to sell the fallacy that a billboard that has a million cars passing by it is worth more than a newsletter to 100 people passionate about the subject. They try really hard to say [...]
The internet lets us be whoever we want to be. Most of us choose to be ourselves, or the slightly annoyed versions of ourselves, but we maintain our inner goodness and judge others by our own moral compass. That is why so many people are caught out by emails and websites that promise the world [...]
About 12 years ago I started work as a voice communications specialist in an IT department of a casino. Attached to the casino was a hotel, and I looked after the voice network in both. The people in the hotel expected crystal clear reception on their analogue phone sets*.
Throughout the rest of the casino phones [...]
Just booked my accommodation for the 30DC Home conference Melbourne in February and noticed I get a free full buffet breakfast for 2 each day in the price. “What an opportunity” thinks I, “I can offer a free breakfast for the company of someone new to network with each day”. So I am!
If you are going to [...]
While I might have whinged about personal branding earlier, watching the birth of a personal brand has opened a lock in my mind. Silly thing is, I should have known this already…
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
It is simple to create a personal brand, once you make it simple. Rather than an [...]
I am sure there are people out there that think I am totally crazy leaving my job next year. I earn a fabulous income, I can work from home, the hours are flexible and the 23 people I manage are all absolutely focussed on doing an extraordinary job. I am often wracked in doubt, why [...]