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self-doubt

Vlog – How And When To Ask For Help… And Why We Don’t.

November 24, 2009

Welcome, dear friends, to my first ever Vlog post! This one is 8 minutes long. The volume is a little soft – but the next one will definitely be better. See it here: Summary for the non-video-watchers: In our society, we’re often told to “cowboy through” things. To be independent. People who ask for help [...]

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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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Giving Up

November 10, 2009

I’m working on a review of Google Wave to be released tomorrow – so do send me your questions or leave them in the comments, if you have any. The review was slated to come out today, but a more important topic got me thinking this morning. Here’s how it started: Charlie Gilkey and I [...]

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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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In Defense of the Snap Decision

October 28, 2009

Snap decisions get a bad rap. If your grandmother was anything like mine, you got the “Now, don’t rush into things” speech at least once a day. Sit down, slow down, calm down – don’t rush into things. Don’t make snap decisions. This advice is usually given out with the best of intentions. We’re told [...]

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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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I Have A Confession.

September 9, 2009

I am an Ivy League dropout. Admittedly, that sounds kind of douchey. It’s the “Ivy League” bit, isn’t it? Yeah – I know. Which is kinda why I quit. Quit? May 2008. The very last day of the semester. A computer lab in Lerner Hall – the student center of Columbia University. Final exams are [...]

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What (And How Much) Do You Really Need?

September 7, 2009

Saturday. 10am. Central Park. Gorgeous weather: sunny, mid-70s, with a slight breeze. Hundreds of people are walking, jogging, bicycling, and rollerblading along the main road which encircles the park. One of them is me. I’m just getting back into exercising after a 1-month hiatus, so most of the walkers, joggers, etc are passing me as [...]

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