"This is a whole new ballgame. Highly recommended." Dr. Stewart D. Friedman,
Director of the Work/Life Integration Project, The Wharton School
August 20th, 2010
Starting tomorrow, travel writer Rolf Potts will embark on a trip that will take him around the world without using a single piece of luggage. This post will explain how he’s going to do it, and there’s a kick-ass giveaway at the end…
March 8th, 2010
The path to profitability doesn’t need to be complicated. (Photo: El Photopakismo) I’ve known the guys at 37Signals for a little while. I first met Jason Fried at SXSW in 2008, and I then got to know David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) over e-mail and in person last year. On a fundamental level, I think, our [...]
May 13th, 2009
(photo: laffy4k) Several weeks ago, I found myself in the passenger seat of a car going nowhere fast. My friend, Peter Sims, who had earlier introduced me to the Stanford D.School, was leading the charge into the unknown, hurtling us (hopefully) towards dinner in exotic Burlingame, where people from SF and Palo Alto compromise to [...]
February 25th, 2009
(Photo: Timothy K. Hamilton) Total read time: 5 minutes. I’ve evolved as a user of the micro-blogging tool called Twitter. That said, technology is a great slave but a terrible master, and Twitter can turn the tables on you with surprising subtlety. This post will explain how I use Twitter and the 5 rules I [...]
February 19th, 2009
These are not the prices I’m looking for. (Photo: hellochris) Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. -John F. Kennedy In December 2008, well-known marketing consultant John Jantsch asked me what my small business predictions were for 2009. This was my answer: 2009 will be the year for [...]
January 4th, 2009
(Photo: da100fotos) “What gets measured gets managed.” -Peter Drucker I like data and enhancing performance through following the numbers. I use half a dozen tools to track metrics on this blog, and I have similarly used tr.im to track click-through on Twitter links, demographic and geographic splits, etc.. I find retweets interesting, but only to [...]
December 15th, 2008
The last 72 hours – that’s me on the right. (Source: AgentGenius) I opened an appropriate fortune cookie last week: “A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.” It’s important to always have a Plan B. Take, for instance, a book launch. It’s easy to miss the bestseller list if you don’t have a [...]
October 19th, 2008
How do you skip the line and get the corner table? (photo: Thomas Hawk) An evening out should be special, especially if it’s an expensive evening. But too often it’s a disappointment. Does the following scenario sound familiar? After weeks of trying to score a reservation at that new restaurant that just got a great [...]
June 4th, 2008
I was recently interviewed by J.D. Roth on planning and financing mini-retirements. Here is an excerpt: J.D. It occurs to me that one way to approach the mini-retirements, at least financially, is to save for them, just as I might save for a new car. It’s not necessarily money I’m pulling from retirement then. It’s [...]
April 20th, 2008
The legendary John Doerr of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. (Photo: Thomas Hawk) Total read time: 12-15 minutes. The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) has mentored some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, including 7 of the Forbes Midas Touch members. In fact, I volunteered for TiE when I first moved to Silicon Valley in [...]
