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Mar 16
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Mar 05
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The Darker Side
Careful this is a loaded question. As soon as you lock into a value (and it’s going to be less than you’d like unless you masterfully market your time), you will be pushed by those that pay your price to do things that are outside of your passion/interest space. This is a great case for setting boundaries of what you’re willing to work on, and managing expectations. As a business you set prices that enable you to compete efficiently on the features you and your customers value most. Both businesses and individual workers create a wide range of value with their efforts, and it’s best that price is free to fluctuate with value added (can be tricky to measure).
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Mar 04
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I was reminded of the transient nature of existence over the last couple of days, while attending a funeral for a family member (Michelle’s Aunt Jenny). It gave me pause to question my planning, habits, and long term life strategy.
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Mar 02
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Startup founders have a dizzying array of choices that will define their strategy, and financial trajectory. A couple of general categories cover a wide range of viable paths towards creating a healthy business. Continue reading »
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Mar 01
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In the blink of an eye, hundreds of new micro corporations have captured public attention. A startling shift is apparent in the decentralization of information authority. Broad distribution of information flow and media usage have revealed a bounty of opportunity to small analysis teams (you and me). In the past, large business structures (Reuters) and institutions dominated the realm of information collection and business analysis. But unless all raw information flows through a filtering choke point, the challenge of identifying every dominant opportunity is beyond centralized organizations. Eureka!
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Feb 28
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While reading on Hacker News I came across a shining example of positive karma. HN member dawson (@dawson) is making a transition from IT (he cofounded a tech startup) to pursue other interests back in school. I wish him good fortune while he shifts his focus, and formulates his next master plan. He’s worked on some high utility applications, one example a gigabyte emailer which lead to an acquisition. But it’s not his accomplishments that caught my attention this morning. Instead it was a short post he made: Continue reading »
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Feb 27
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I’d like to make a bold wager. None of the big social web communities that are popular today will be so just ten years from now. My hypothesis is that massive improvements to network speed will reduce the pressure to colocate data. The traction we see to such tools is in communication, availability and connection to friends and those we seek to befriend. This functionality can be fascillatated better by moving away from the client/server model tied to RESTful design (how HTTP or the web is setup), and embracing peer to peer communication technologies. Federated network communications can take place without intermediary databases. There will always be a role for dedicated servers, but their dominance of attention in the future will wane as (mobile) Net participation skyrockets.
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Feb 26
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What is it that triggers us to be apathetic about some tasks, but absolutely manic about others? To each challenge, we attach an unconscious importance and interest reaction. For me, the right combination of task qualities makes or breaks my effort. These are the driving features and ideal fuel to elicit my finest work. Continue reading »
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Feb 23
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Let’s begin by defining what I mean by open earnings:
Transparent public record of what individuals earn, and the responsibilities and metrics that will define their pay scale. An open ceiling on value added and corresponding pay is the key to getting the best effort from each team member.
Historically only sales positions could be open earnings. And this is the way big affiliate companies or other sales teams work. Each person earns a small percentage of each sale. Continue reading »
