Seth Godin starts the year we a fascinating insight, pain is part of work, and it leads to two mistakes: When confronting with pain at work we think we have two choices: The notion that you can trade your way out of pain; or embracing your current pain and avoiding newer, unknown pains … But the one that pays is the third one…
“As a Director of Marketing, what’s the #1 thing you need to figure out about the web?”
This is a question that was recently posted at the Marketing Executives Group at LinkedIn, and the responses to that question are very revealing. But was it the right question to ask in the first place?
Experiments are good — only if reversible. If our experimentation becomes permanent, that’s not an experiment, but a decision. Problem is we sometimes forget to make that distinction. And we end up either being afraid to experiment because we think it will become permanent, or we end up making decisions which are permanent, when we [...]
When facing a crisis we tend to respond to our anxieties in a manner that often result in actions which tend to undermine our real interests, as these actions are not always the most effective way to gain the upper hand in the long run.
In 1982, when the war broke out on the northern border of Israel, I knew it wouldn’t be long before the reserves were called in: me included.
As a citizen of Israel — which I was at the time — I was a reservist soldier. I had my uniform, my boots, and my weapon in the closet.
Today the ipinfodb server went down, creating disruption in all these applications that use the service for identifying a user’s location via their IP address. The script provided by ipinfodb, does not have a timeout option, resulting in the function hanging for 30 seconds or more (depending on your PHP time out settings.) The solution:
“Whether you choose to dive in or not, know that there’s someone who cares, more than anything, about empowering your vision.” “I’ve written this book fully intending to change your mind about the way we create. And to start a revolution in the context of your work.” Tessa Zeng I first met Tessa in 2004, [...]
Here are some of the flutes on my collection of Native American flutes. Originally when living in Argentina, I used to play the Adean quenas and monseños, and upon moving to the United States I found the wonderful voice of these Native American flutes. The flute at right was crafted by Chief Arthur Two-Crows, and [...]
As choice plays such an important role online — what we choose to click, read, download, watch, add to a shopping cart, follow, and so on — I was fascinated by the wonderfully insightful work of Sheena Iyenkar in her book “The Art of Choosing”.
