Sorry for the light blogging
Weddings and honeymoons do tend to trump everything else, in a very good way. It’s also been mop-up work on everything else, so there hasn’t been that much to way. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the […]
New Business notion – A cognitive bias counselor
Lately my reading has been about cognitive biases in decision making and I had the thought that most good advice tells you what you already know, just in a form shorn of anchoring effects, survivorship bias, and so on. Sometimes it’s easier to remove the mote in thy neighbor’s eye than the beam in your own.
Free downloadable Articles of Organization for a Georgia LLC
I just established Stronico as a Georgia Limited Liability Company, and now Stronico Contact Management LLC is born! As I was doing the paperwork to I could not find any templates for the Articles of Organization, so here are the templates I created to file my paperwork. Remember to change the names to your LLC. […]
A partial list of my entrepreneurial weaknesses, and one time steps to correct them
My weaknesses have made themselves apparant over the past few days, here is a preliminary list. The first entry is the topic, the one below that is the specifics, and the one below that is the practical step to get me to an adequate level in under ten hours. QuickBooks Problem: I am terrible at […]
I answer Seth Godin’s seven questions
Seth Godin posted seven questions all entrepreneurs should answer. The more I try to answer these questions the more useful they become. Here I go with my attempt. I first list the “off the top of my head response” and then the edited response so I can show the evolution: What problem are you solving? Original: The […]
Is it time to replace QuickBooks with Less Accounting?
The internet is filled with hatred of QuickBooks. After doing much of the hating myself I realize now that people do not hate the program because of what the program can’t do; they hate QuickBooks because the program discourages them in small ways at every opportunity. Using QuickBooks is like wading three miles through a […]
Better to remain silent than to say any of these things
People use some phrases to make themselves feel better, not to add anything to the conversation. Using these phrases annoys everyone in earshot and decreases motivation to fix the underlying problem. My preliminary list: Any sentence starting with “I need” – you want, “need” is an attempt to manipulate someone from a position of weakness, and that […]
How I engineer my life for maximum productivity
So far 2010 has been the year of gradual improvements in life, health and productivity. I made most of these changes based on what I learned in Brain Rules. Here is a snapshot of my changes so far: General Improvements: No more smoking (though it did take two months to get my concentration back) 8 […]
Is an Ivy League education pointless for creative people?
I came across some of Richard Florida’s work online yesterday (Florida is the author of “The Creative Class” and the creator of the notion that creative people should self-segregate) and I began wondering: why do Ivy League institutions produce so few creative people?
Beware aggressive salespeople – The power of “No”
For reasons unknown I spent most of yesterday dealing with salespeople. One common component of all the salespeople was the instinct to “Close”. The longer the contract period (these were all service companies) the stronger the close instinct. Usually I just hang up on these people, but for fun I tried negotiating with them using […]