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Knowledge and Intelligence

Do not underestimate the intelligence or overestimate the knowledge of your prospect.
This is not an original quote, but I can’t remember who said it.

2010 01 29 Mike Comments (0)

The Wall, continued

Back yourself into a corner and these versions will vividly appear before your eye. (37signals)
He’s talking about software, but putting your back against the wall also applies to your entrepreneurial drive.
Back yourself into a corner, truly back against the wall, and you’ll discover new sources of speed, insight, and possibilities, no matter what you’re working [...]

2010 01 19 Mike Comments (0)

Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.
New York VS San Francisco via a “Tumblr VS Posterous” lens.

2010 01 19 Mike Comments (0)

Talent VS Effort

It was the last time I thought that whether or not I was successful depended on my talent or intelligence. It really comes down to hard work people. Ever since then, I have attacked each thing that I do not understand until I understand it. (John)
Another believer in effort over talent.

2010 01 12 Mike Comments (0)

“Information influence is the least effective form of influence.” (Ramit)
He’s got a lot of really good articles. The behavioral change ones are particularly good for us marketing folks.

2009 12 28 Mike Comments (0)

Scoble and Twitter Data

What is the firehose feed? It’s what businesses like Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Peoplebrowsr, and FriendFeed get from Twitter: it is the full stream of Tweets (more than 10gigs a day). The problem is that to deal with it you need to be expert at dealing with large, changing databases, and if your business gets popular you [...]

2009 12 15 Mike Comments (0)

The value I see in consulting is the outside perspective they bring, a perspective lost the moment you actually hire them. (An insightful friend)

2009 12 15 Mike Comments (0)

THR: Do you feel any pressure to direct movies more often? Abrams: There are so many things that I should not be directing. A lot of times I look at something and I think, “Oh my God, that would be amazing. I would completely f*** that up.” I just know that there are things [...]

2009 12 14 Mike Comments (0)

My life probably looked disordered to observers (not that anyone was observing it that closely) but my travels were a very deliberate effort to learn as much as I could about life, expressly so that I could write about it. (Elizabeth)
She’s talking about writing books, but same applies to copywriting, too.

2009 12 14 Mike Comments (0)

What’s worse is that most of these addicts know intellectually that plowing through 14 hour work days is not actually a very productive way to get ahead. That more time doesn’t mean more valuable work done. (37signals)
Italics mine.

2009 12 08 Mike Comments (0)