stuff consultants say: “Who wants to be a Chief Executive Officer? It sounds like you work for the government and who would want that? Being a Chief Excitement Officer would be better, don’t you think?”
Wow, thats awesome. how much does your ebook cost?
(Source: youtube.com)
My kitchen sink is an idiot. It doesn’t recognize anything I throw in it. It treats dishes like potato peelings, and water is the same to it as three week old cottage cheese.
So, I beg of you big appliance makers, give me a kitchen sink that can think a little for itself. It could take my pile of dishes and rinse them for me. It could slide the pile of food scraps and mash it down into a nice cube for me to put into the little brown bags we get from the town. It could politely cover up when guests come over. It could at least try to pull its weight around the house!
+- 30 years?
37Signals Jason Fried has said, “The design is done when the problem goes away.”
Every once in a while I get some crazy idea for a product or service that I can’t find. I thought I would write them down and see if anyone is making them or maybe someone will get fired up about selling me something and make it. So here is the first…
I want a bathroom that, when the door is closed and fan is off, is totally water tight. There should be a button on the outside of the door that, when pressed, fills the room with water and soap and cleans all surfaces. Then the water is pumped out and the bathroom is left smelling like pine trees or whatever.
Build it, I will buy it.
I order shoes from you. You reply to all my mails slowly. Then, months later, you want feedback? And you open the mail with “sorry, it is not possible to reply to this mail”? Really? Why should I help you at all?
Here is the mail:
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I am waiting for someone to make a business decision. He has taken his time, brought in some sort of advisor, went away on a trip he had to take, come home, and he STILL has NOT informed us of his decision.
Now, I would be very happy if he said yes. I would be a little les happy, but still happy, if he said no. The worst is the not saying. So how long until you pull the offer and walk?
So these 5 words are helpful to me.
If I dont hear back today the gloves come off. I will shake the tree once hard and then let the coconuts fall where they may. Or the Keith Richards’.
Two small words that mean totally different things. And yet, I bet you can find 10 times in your last three days of communications (email, sms, chat) where you used one and could have just as easily used the other. Example:
“M is a real business minded guy, but he would really work well on this user experience project.”
Why not say and?
Reserve “but” for the big moments. Erase it in all other contexts and go with “and”. Its a beautiful word.
1. Realize you could make tons of money by changing how everyone does X. Write the idea on a napkin and then spend 20 minutes a week “working” on the idea while asking other people for feedback.
2. See if you can catch someone who is “working” on a project. Ask if you can get some coffee with them and have a chat. Repeat.
3. Buy server space, 427 domains, install drupal on some, wordpress on some others and start setting up 34 webshops. Order 13 logo’s from 99designs and open an account at elance.com and odesk.com
Don’t do all at once, it gives you a headache
The Danish government’s plan at the moment looks like this:
1. Start a Danish company and apply for a license
2. Pay corporate taxes and 20% of all gaming revenues
3. Enjoy
This is basically a super affiliate set up. They take credit for all Danish signups and want a cut of their business. They will even let you send them to whatever liquidity you want. This is a much better model, and it actually makes sense. Super affiliates are getting paid because they are bringing in more business, by regulating, the Danish government is making sure the Danish gaming business is safe and making the market much more trustworthy. Long live affiliation!
All the work that goes into planning and completing a project is often wasted. Some 30-50% of businesses fail within the first 5 years and even the ones that keep going have shifted drastically from their early plans. Facing these kind of numbers, even looking at how your own life works, it seems we could be more successful. I have noticed a higher rate of success in my own projects using one simple rule: 1. know what finished looks like Yeah, for many this is a simple part of project planning. But reading through “Getting Things Done” you can see how your natural project planning that happens at any time, like when you are deciding what to buy and when to go to the store, you see that you miss this point. Maybe your “finished state” was: Food and menu for the week so I don’t need to think about it when I get home with the kids. Once at the store however, you forget all this and buy a ton of things you don’t need. On Thursday you don’t have the chicken for the pasta dish that you planned. So it helps me to write a small note. On your phone or on paper works fine. Write down exactly what finished looks like, then go back and check it when you’re done.
Check out this 3 minute talk by Arthur C Clarke, one of the kings of real Sci Fi. Interesting points on how to predict the future and what are lives will look like in the year 2000. :)
Some days you wake up with dreams of big accomplishments, pulling apart established businesses, building new castles, rewriting the world. Then you realize you’re out of cheerios and forget everything. This is how I keep my ideas alive past breakfast.
1. Filter your ideas. Be honest, if it sucks just let it go NOW.
2. Forget where you got the idea from, at least for now. Just absorb and move on to the next step. If you spend time worrying about “whose idea” it is (no one owns ideas, only doing gives you ownership) you’ll never DO ANYTHING.
3. Do something.
Use “The cult of done manifesto” if you have trouble getting started.
1. Pretend like there is an easy way to make money, create some buzzword around your concept (think Social Media, CRM, Cloud), fool people to think that you are an expert in the area, talk about ROI as an concept and not a number. Tag your posts on Twitter, only post links to articles with fuzzy…
Some people will tell you to hold your mouth. Silence is golden, its better to be quiet and assumed a fool then to speak and remove all doubt. To hell with that!
Look, people are walking around this earth trying to make sense of it. It’s hard, there are all sorts of messages coming at you. Marketing messages, cultural tugging, every corner there’s something telling you what to do, how to feel. And in all this mess you should hold your tongue? Come on!
Get out there, put whatever you have on your mind in the world. Watch how people react and adjust. So here is the thing, when most people speak, they lose touch with anyone else in the room. Don’t do that!! Whenever you talk, watch closely how everyone in the room is reacting. You’ll never get more clear, true feedback.
This is how you make good business decisions. You need to know what others are thinking about you. If you don’t know this you are still reaching for the elephant in the dark. (really, click that link)
Go tell ‘em what you think.
