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The List Is Life (or: Ma’am, step AWAY from the To Do List.)

January 14, 2010

I have a To Do List. Had a To Do List. Unlike many, mine was not actually written on a stark page titled To Do with numbers and lines and arrows. Not for me the paper prison. My To Dos were scattered on tiny purple post-its, in mental notes and calculations, in tweets, and in [...]

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You ARE What You Do. (Repeatedly.)

November 23, 2009

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle We’re told so often by gurus of various types to decouple our beings from our workaday actions. “You are not-” they say emphatically, “what you do.” Bull. Admittedly, most of these gurus mean to stop us pigeonholing ourselves [...]

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How And Why To Dance Around In Your Socks

November 17, 2009

I woke up this morning and wanted to go back to bed. Usually I can get by with 7 hours of sleep. Apparently not today. So I did what I normally do, and set my alarm clock back a half hour. Still not enough. Another? Still no. I slept 1.5 hours extra, in 1/2 hour [...]

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Things Entrepreneurship Teaches You (or: OMG Darth Vader’s in that cave!!)

October 29, 2009

I’ve been working on side projects all week instead of what I ought to be working on. Instead of what I’d like to be working on. Why have I been working on side projects all week? Because Darth Vader is in that cave, and I’m scared to go in. If you haven’t seen the original [...]

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Why I’m Not Buying Any More Info Products. (or: How Merlin Mann changed my game.)

October 26, 2009

I’d been procrastinating over watching Merlin Mann’s latest video. Sure, everyone watched the little 5 minute Merlin Labs bit (“Giant Cock Paper” – heh!), but the other one? Man… 40 minutes of my time! Then I remembered how much time I spent dicking around on Regretsy last night. I watched Merlin’s thing. There are things [...]

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Entrepreneur Juice. (or: How Malcolm Gladwell Gave Me My Business Back)

October 19, 2009

All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Blah. This week in New York has been nothing but rain. And the greyness of the days has only been matched by the greyness of my small Harlem office as I tapped away at emails and lists of ideas for [...]

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Assumptions. (Fundamental.)

October 5, 2009

Pace and Jonathan have both done a very good job of ass-kicking today. This is my own riff on their fantastic posts. People go through life making fundamental assumptions about the world around them. In a by and large way, this is a good thing. We’re biologically and evolutionarily programmed to make assumptions based on [...]

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Full-Time Entrepreneurship: Day 1

September 29, 2009

I woke up late, of course. I say “of course,” because I’d forgotten to ensure that my alarm clock was actually on before I went to bed. 8:45 already – damn! I laid in bed for a while contemplating the patterns of light and shadow on my ceiling. It took a while to remind myself [...]

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