What’s this an ad for? If you hadn’t heard of Market Samurai how would you know you wanted it? I find this really odd… Tweet
I was listening to the latest Harvard Business Review Ideas Podcast on the way to work this morning. This podcast is one that would be dear to the hearts of all those productivity specialists out there because it is an interview with Tony Schwartz, author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize [...]
The other day I was watching an online video advertisement created by an online marketer and I realised that the Hollywood quality production completely demoralised me. This person (and quite a few others these days) had stripped the personality and quirks from their work to embrace the quest for perfection. It was demotivating because it was [...]
This is a PR 4 DO FOLLOW blog. Guys, seriously. get a PROPER backlink by using your keyword as your name in the comment. You can sign off the comment with your real name. If it’s a genuine comment, I will approve, always (unless it’s bot produced spam, or out-tasked ESL ego stroke meaningless comment) [...]
Living at the end of a 1.5 km dirt road, in the middle of bush, 25kms from the nearest town tends to give you a different perspective to living in a suburban house 25kms from the CBD. I don’t know whether it is the wallaby droppings or the 2 stroke fumes from the brush cutter [...]
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 one [...]
Read Ten Years Ago part 1 Read Ten Years Ago part 2 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 [...]
Read part 1 of Ten Years Ago 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 [...]
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 [...]