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So I have a bunch of tattoos - Part 2
| Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:23
Continuing from our point where we left off here, a follow-up about all the tattoos I have up until this point. To continue from where we left off, first, this is what I actually look like now. I feel slightly weird posting this, but you know what, fuck modesty, you can handle it. It’s a pretty [...]
So I have a bunch of tattoos - Part 1
| Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:15
I have a bunch of tattoos, but I’ve never really chatted about them or put them up online. But I’m getting a bunch of work over the next 6 months, so I figured, what the hell. After all, even if you see me in person, it’s rare that you get to see the work [...]
The Army’s Formation Is Like Water
| Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:02
The army’s formation is like water. The water’s formation avoids the high and rushes to the low. So an army’s formation avoids the strong and rushes to the weak. Water’s formation adapts to the ground when flowing. So then an army’s formation adapts to the enemy to achieve victory. Therefore, an army does not have constant force, or [...]
Maximizing Leverage of Social Networks
| Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:28
So, probably wrapping up the talk we’ve been having about ecosystems (1, 2), we bring it back to what we were chatting about a few weeks ago about why bloggers are short-changing themselves out of influence by giving up blogging for Twitter. Making the decision One of the main things you have to decide on when [...]
| Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:02
Dunno that this is worthy of a blog post, but I figured I’d get in on it anyway. Chris is being harassed by a bunch of guys right now because they’re saying that the blog post he wrote on his Dadomatic blog changed the way they see him. I’m not here to criticize that; they [...]
Building the Ecosystem, or Being the Host
| Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:41
I’ve given some more thought to the subject of a previous post about starting companies inside ecosystems. Turns out there’s another side to this, and it’s pretty obvious: Building the ecosystem that can support others. Let’s say you start a site that’s a currency converter (to continue the example from the previous post). You have [...]
| Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:29
My corner breakfast place has two bathrooms. Both were identical, and neither used to have signs. Last week, they put these up. At first it’s clear, right? “Oh, this one is female and that one is… hey wait a minute.” Exactly. There was a brief moment of zen (or something) when I saw this. It’s almost [...]
Functioning Inside Other Ecosystems
| Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30
Lots of people who want to start businesses seem to want to become billion dollar ones and, hey, that’s understandable. Huge is sexy. But what about something else, something which I think is a big deal but not talked about that often. Starting a business inside another business. Think Facebook apps. This isn’t the way [...]
| Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:25
You have met your match. Expect the next 4/8 years to be filled with Obama conspiracy movies from the right, just like the left have their 9/11 truth and Federal Reserve movies. The following are expected to become popular. Just remember you heard it here first. - Obama is not a US citizen - Obama will [...]
| Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:22
I’m reading a magazine article on a plane right now about money discussions between couples. It says you should write down your goals and categorize your them like this: “work, children, retirement.” But what if I never plan on retiring? To me, retirement says “thank God I’m out of that hellhole.” It says, “finally I can [...]
| Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:27
I hosted a Facebook event last year where I remember the final panel being about the future of Facebook. This was right around when their new targeted ad service had come out (which eventually failed), but there was a lot of discussion about that, lots of marketers in the room chatting about what the [...]
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07
I’m starting to think that bloggers who heavily tweet are shortchanging themselves. I saw Michelle Blanc earlier and she mentioned that she’s going to be on Tout le monde en parle, a talk show here in Quebec. I hadn’t heard and told her so, so she said she had tweeted it, and jokingly asked if [...]
| Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:29
Nobody gets credit for the crises they averted. If you saved your company because you decided to start doing the books clean, you’re not going to be the hero. You’re going to be the unrecognized, silent person chugging along and doing the right thing. It’s different than if your company sees disaster, almost ends up in [...]
| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:59
My roommates and I are moving to a new place at the end of the month. The new place is nice, but we’re doing a few renovations on it because some stuff just hasn’t been worked on in a while and you can tell. There’s dust on the moldings, nails just randomly hanging everywhere, and [...]
Download Now · | Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:07
So, Trust Agents. Since Chris came out earlier today to write about what our book would be called, I figured I would add some of my comments. I won’t speak for Chris here, since he’ll probably go into detail on his own, but here’s what the phrase means to me. 1. Trust agents deal in social [...]
| Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:48
I’m at Gimme Coffee right now in Brooklyn. To my left, there’s a guy on an IBM Thinkpad using Gmail. I’m beside that, using Google Docs. To my right, there’s a girl with a black Macbook, using Youtube. We are all on Google properties. Is that scary? I don’t know why, I just suddenly had a really weird [...]
| Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36
One of the interesting things about co-writing a book is that you look into someone else’s experiences, as well as your own. So I’ve been thinking about Chris Brogan a lot. (It’s weird, I know.) Anyway, remember the funnel? A long time ago, Seth Godin figured out that turning strangers into friends, then into customers, and then [...]
| Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:12
Registrations are open! Show up or you owe me a beer. But seriously, Laurent, Sylvain, and Laurent (2), and Michelle are doing a great job with this, particularly since running a bilingual event is a bit more complicated than your usual Podcamp. It should be pretty damn cool.
| Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:25
I have a problem. There’s this one Mexican restaurant I keep walking by. Through the windows, I see their curtains, which are coloured green, white, green. And I keep thinking: “Guys, change just one of those and you’ve got a Mexican flag! How great would that be?” Of course, in reality, this is none of my damn business. But [...]
$1000 for an iPhone app? That’s rich.
| Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:51
Some may applaud Apple’s decision to remove the $1000 iPhone app (the one that does nothing) from its store the other day but, in reality, it’s deplorable. I’m not concerned about the customer service issue (because yes, people will buy it, and yes, Apple will get complaints)– I get that side of it. But this thing [...]
