Unnovating
1. Solving the new problems created by solving the old problem. verb 2. Creating solutions after creating the problem.
There are only 3 good reasons to have a meeting
Hating meetings is clichéd. Pointless ones destroy productivity while meaningful ones recharge your batteries. The key is to know what behavior is expected of you and the attendees before heading into one. There are only…
13 Signs You Might be a Lifehacker
You won’t eat something unless it has a barcode. You only read articles written as top 10 lists. You scrapped your Arduino Cat Feeder project because your Raspberry-PI just showed up. You have an app…
Bummer
I was a fan of EveryBlock as a concept, so it’s a bummer to see them shutting down. There were some really talented folks behind it.
Commenting is back
I turned off the commenting feature on this blog a little while back because I was getting way too much Spam. I was originally using the default WordPress commenting feature, which pretty anemic. The one…
5%
I think this is kind of cool, but it kind of reminds me of the “Who’s Who” racket from high school. I think the way it worked was if you had decent grades, they would…
Before you DIY, think DBI
Want to reclaim a big chunk of your life? Then change your default settings. Entrepreneurs seem to be set to DIY by default. We don’t bother to change it even when we know time is…
Some customers are wrong
When I was in marketing at Apple back in the late 90s, there was this meeting called the Customer Advisory Board. It was organized by the late tech writer Don Crabb. He assembled a group…
Consumers do know what they want, we just don’t like how they say it
The meme, “It’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want” is becoming conventional wisdom due to everyone reading the Steve Jobs bio and retweeting some form of it ad nauseam. Unfortunately most of…
When self service is the best service
I’m waiting for a flu shot at the drug store and I thought, “why can’t they dispense a vaccine with something like those blood pressure machines you see everywhere?” While I can already hear the…
