I noticed something yesterday while working from home. I get insanely, retardedly, unbelievably focused.
I suppose it has a lot to do with the lack of distractions I set up for myself. Plus I don’t have my sales staff, random people coming into the office, the phones ringing, the constant questions about random technology [...]
Some 92.5 million consumers will buy online this holiday season, each spending an average of $263. I’m not one of them.
Why is that? I freaking love the internet. I love sitting at home on the couch browsing with my MacBook. However, when I want to buy something, I almost always concede [...]
UCLA professor Philip E. Agre has a really good article on how to become a leader in your chosen field; it runs a little long but here are the main take-aways:
Pick an issue.
Start a project to study it.
Find relevant people and talk to them.
Pull together what you’ve heard.
Circulate the result.
Build on your work.
Duh.
I’ve returned from a Houston, Texas business trip. Actually got back yesterday but I was dead tired and had to go to the Lounge on Clematis Street. They’ve redesigned in the reopening. I miss the intimate dj booth type setup.
But I digress. Although I didn’t really get to see much of [...]
Remind me to take a picture and contribute to the growing “What’s in Your Bag?” tag on Flickr. I find it very interesting.
Update:
I decided to take a shot, although I already realized that I left a bunch of stuff out. For example, my iPods. Damn, I’ll have to do another, more complete [...]
Sony’s $65 million deal to acquire Grouper.com opens the door for other acquisitions in the space. Many observers believe that YouTube, the dominant player in the user-generated online video content space, might be one of them.
Grouper.com only has around 1% of the videosharing market. At that price, what might YouTube’s 43% be worth?
My opinion is [...]
I’ve been following CrazyEgg in beta for a while now. They’ve launched. Crazy Egg is designed to help you continually test and improve your site.
Update: Make one yourself.
