Coffee and Chess and Hamburgers
I find myself this evening at a Starbucks in Van Nuys, drinking a coffee, watching dozens of people who are not drinking coffee, or any sort of drink actually, play very bad games of chess. There are...
View ArticleWhy You Are Unable To Find Great Talent
I receive a lot of email from recruiters because I keep refreshing my resume on a monthly basis. Whether I am looking for a contract position or nothing at all, it never hurts to have exposure and...
View ArticleRadio Is Dead
I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of months and perhaps I am behind the times with it, but why does music radio still exist? Traditional radio stations that play a mixture of music and news...
View ArticleInformation = Income
If you’ve got information, the more the better, it will have two distinct attributes, both of which involve money. The information will have one or the other attribute, or even both at the same time....
View ArticleYour Job Is Obsolete
The job that a lot of people who read my blog do, didn’t exist yesterday. I’m amazed when I think my job didn’t really exist thirty years ago (video game developer) and I’m working with people (social...
View ArticleWhy I Just Quit Reading Seth Godin
Seth Godin probably doesn’t care, he’d probably attribute it to some marketing nonsense such as “being dazzling and edgy and not trying to please everyone” but this post for his free three-day seminar...
View ArticleYou’re List of Skill Requirements Is Upside Down
Ever had to write out a list of required skills for a job advert? Ever read a list of skills for a job advert? Whatever list of skill requirements you have come up with where you put in order of...
View ArticleJobs Requirements: Hire For Attitude, Train For Skill
Yesterday I posted about people who are trying to hire great talent inverting their list of requirements, and inevitably a friend responded with “Yeah that’s fine, but what would you look for in a new...
View ArticleI hate someone…
I really, really hate someone. Or rather, I really, really hate the idea of “someone.” Because over my career I have had many conversations that sound just like this: Me: “Let’s do this, move that over...
View ArticleAbout Six Inches If Not Too Cold
Met with an earnest entrepreneur. Very early stage start-up – no product, no traction, no investment. He is making a mobile app… For the elderly to track their health and medication. Normally I listen...
View ArticleSans Comic
We have to engage more of our brain when we interpret a visual image. It’s why pithy quotes as “words on an image” are remarkable in their effectiveness. There’s a logical evolution to that content...
View ArticleAcquiring Minds Of Users
UA (User Acquisition) on mobile is broken. The people that need UA broke it. The market provided a broken solution to those demands. There are far better ways to maximize your spend than utilizing UA...
View ArticleWaiting For The Right Moment
If you are doing it right, there are only two pieces of information you will need to give your investors. And only two pieces of information they will care to know. The longer they wait: The less...
View ArticleOverpriced Time
I have come to realise over a long career that whether I charge $14 an hour or $400 an hour for my time, I am always overpriced. I see it as, it is better to charge more and be listened to, than to...
View ArticleLazy or Ignorant
If you offer a product or service that solves a problem which can be answered by the first link on Google or any other search engine, you should really be marketing your offering to the lazy, not the...
View ArticleStealth Start-ups
Chatting with a group of entrepreneurs about when is the appropriate time to talk about your start-up when one of them mentions that I don’t talk much about my current project. I respond “My start-up...
View ArticlePoor Strategy
If you think you are going to entice the best engineers in San Francisco into working for you by spamming a Jobvite link where they can fill out a bunch of fields and upload their resume, you probably...
View ArticleDiverse Opined Opinions
On the subject of diversity in technology and business, there is much to be said on the subject, but right now it just consists of an awful lot of people talking. The post Diverse Opined Opinions...
View ArticleUn-Credited Invisibility
If you work in an office where your work goes un-credited, either internally or externally, then your work is invisible, and so are you. And it is worth asking “why?” The post Un-Credited Invisibility...
View ArticleOn The Rain-Slick Threshold of Being Indispensibly Indispensable
Create something only you could have created. The moment you cross that threshold, you become valued and indispensable. The post On The Rain-Slick Threshold of Being Indispensibly Indispensable...
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