In my close cadre of friends, personal branding has become quite the topic of conversation. Some of my friends are even making money sharing what they know about the subject, and are undoubtedly on the cutting edge in that regard. But even so, I still often wonder if personal branding is bullshit and [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2008
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The company, Falling Fruit tv, that I helped start around 1 year ago, dissolved a couple of weeks ago. While I’d prefer not to get into the specifics, as there is a lot of private and still hurt feelings involved, I will make a couple of observations/thoughts that have come to me in the [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2008
My buddy Duff wrote a devastating critique of Multi-Level Marketing outfits, and used Ken Wilber’s 4-quadrant model to frame the problem in a brilliant way. Here is a little excerpt from his post, “Have You Been Infected by an MLM? How to Heal from the Great American Socio-Economic Virus.“:
MLM’s are the tapeworm of America, [...]
21. December 2007
My good buddy, and co-worker Duff McDuffee, is featured on Thrilling Heroics (a cool looking Gen Y focused leadership/business blog) in an interview entitled Bright Young Minds.
The interview is actually quite good, and it provides a lot of clarity into Falling Fruit’s mission and vision, and why we are trying to be part of the [...]
20. December 2007
In the first part of this series I shared some of the techniques and principles I’ve adopted from the books, Bit Literacy and Getting Things Done. In this post I continue to share some of the other techniques and tools I’ve found useful in my personal productivity system.
Agile Development
From the world of [...]
18. December 2007
When one has a lot of interests, passions, and therefore a lot to actually work on and work towards, it is exceedingly helpful to have some sort of explicitly defined personal productivity system. While I’ve always been fairly productive in school (not that being in school taught me much useful about the subject) what [...]
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9. August 2008
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