“ Lack of product orientation:
Some people seem more concerned about the process than the result of activity.

posted : Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

tags :

Awesome Flow Chart

Awesome Flow Chart

posted : Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

tags :

I was reading Seth Godin’s article and answering the questions in my head so I thought I should put them down somewhere and make it public to hold myself accountable

Who are you trying to please?
>Myself, primarily.

Are you trying to make a living, make a difference, or leave a legacy?

> Make a difference, I can already make a living and I’m not interested in leaving legacies

How will the world be different when you’ve succeeded?
> It will be easier, people will wonder how they got along before I invented X Is it more important to add new customers or to increase your interactions with existing ones?
> Add new ones

Do you want a team? How big? (I know, that’s two questions)
> 10 or maybe 15 people, a tight knit similar minded bunch with everyone working towards a vision instead of for a paycheck

Would you rather have an open-ended project that’s never done, or one where you hit natural end points? (How high is high enough?)
> Natural high points so I can move on the next

Are you prepared to actively sell your stuff, or are you expecting that buyers will walk in the door and ask for it?
> I want people to rave about it and tell all their friends so that people come looking for us.

Which: to invent a category or to be just like Bob/Sue, but better?
> Invent a Category

If you take someone else’s investment, are you prepared to sell out to pay it back?
> NO Are you done personally growing, or is this project going to force you to change and develop yourself?


> Im done growing, this is all about what im building no longer about me

Choose: teach and lead and challenge your customers, or do what they ask…
> Challenge them, to rethink how and why they do things.

How long can you wait before it feels as though you’re succeeding?
> A few years at the most, if it takes longer than that I need to question my path

Is perfect important? (Do you feel the need to fail privately, not in public?)
> No perfect is secondary, potential counts more

Do you want your customers to know each other (a tribe) or is it better they be anonymous and separate?
> Anonymous

How close to failure, wipe out and humiliation are you willing to fly? (And while we’re on the topic, how open to criticism are you willing to be?)
> Not very close, I dont want to be distracted from what Im building to focus on financial matters

What does busy look like?
> Having something better to do than what other people are offering me to do

posted : Monday, July 12th, 2010

tags :

Burnout

“Within the first year or two of working as a professional designer, you will question if you want to do this any more. You will get beat up and overworked, you will produce a giant pile of work that you are not proud of. You will be lucky if you get out of the first year with a feeling of pride in or ownership of anything you make. You will look back after the first year and not remember most of what kept you busy. You will make work that you question the use of, and you will do things that make you feel like a cog in some sort of awful, wasteful machine. There will be times that you will be just merely a tool for someone else. You will question what all this work is for and you will need to re-convince yourself at some point as to whether or not you love this practice.”

via http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/777628842/holiday

posted : Monday, July 12th, 2010

tags :

“ The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau

posted : Monday, July 12th, 2010

tags :

“ It is human nature to believe the limits of our perception to be the entirety of reality.

posted : Saturday, July 10th, 2010

tags :

“ I’d never say education is useless, but I stick firmly to the idea that how you get it doesn’t matter.

posted : Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

tags :

“ I don’t buy things that are “getting better”, because they usually don’t. Whatever caused them to be lacking in their current release will usually prevent them from being great in future releases.

posted : Monday, July 5th, 2010

tags :

“ A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to

Banksy

posted : Monday, July 5th, 2010

tags :

“ Effectiveness is doing the right things.” What’s true for individual managers is also true for organizations, which often squander time and resources trying to improve processes for products not worth producing. The solution? See “abandonment,

posted : Monday, July 5th, 2010

tags :

If you think you haven’t found your passion yet, you’re probably expecting it to be overwhelming.

Instead, just notice what excites you and what scares you on a small moment-to-moment level.

posted : Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

tags :

“ the standard pace is for chumps” - that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than “just anyone” - you can do so much more than anyone expects.

posted : Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

tags :

posted : Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

tags :

“ Every artist was first an amateur.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

posted : Friday, July 2nd, 2010

tags :

“ my passion lies in the shorter term projects where I can have a meaningful impact in specific ways (compared to building a company out over years).

posted : Thursday, July 1st, 2010

tags :