There's nothing wrong with redefining yourself often and radically. It's your personal version of species evolution: you're exploring the possibility space of your own being. You're tweaking the programming, hacking the algorithm whose solution equals 'you.' You have no idea what your limits are, or indeed if you even have any, until...
Recently I decided to try changing my sleeping pattern from the standard 8-ish hours a night to a biphasic sleep cycle. I was intrigued by a recent news article that described people - in times past - sleeping twice every night. Taking a nap is nothing new, but this article mentioned two distinct and prolonged periods of sleep specifically...
So you've built a great app, service or product. Excellent. What's your marketing strategy. "If you build it, they will come!" Wrong. Although a few notable examples certainly prove this statement correct, 99% prove it wrong. And quite a few of the ones that prove it right would have had some serious help behind the scenes anyway...
Wow... I haven't posted here in a while. Had a few ideas about what to write - some short, some long - but just didn't get around to it. Funny thing is: I keep telling myself and others that working on something every day, no matter how little time you give it, is important to keep the momentum going. Seems I still need to work...
We often get lost in the details of what we're working on. We concentrate so much on this particular thing and then that particular thing. Before we know it, we're forgetting the bigger picture; we're ignoring the stuff that really matters. So take a step back. Forget about the details for some time. Do something else, something...
We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things. - Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines A friend of mine recently gave me a short article to read concerning corporate strategy and bad strategy in particular. The basic premise is that a lot of bad strategic decisions boil down to lack of clear direction, interpreting tasks as...
A friend, business partner and mentor asked me about my view on the current trend of encouraging every co-founder to learn how to code. One might think that because I'm a coder, I would be all for it. However, I look at this in a slightly different way. It's not about whether you - as a co-founder - are able to code and thus craft...
The other day I posted a link on Facebook, sharing the new website that had just gone up for an app that I'm working on (http://goddessalert.com, by the way). After an initial comment from a university buddy of mine wondering how I'd gone from psychology to iPhone app development (I zigzag), the thread turned into a trip down memory...
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost Adventure isn't under the safe glow of house lights and familiar sights. Treasure isn't on the busy, central city streets. Don't follow...
A toilet is meant to be a place of relief and cleansing. It's even known as a restroom. While plenty of work has been done on decoration, ambience and feature placement, one fundamental flaw exists in pretty much all toilets: you have to pull a handle to exit. Is it really so complex a thought? You've (hopefully) just washed your...
