How much deep thinking is the right amount?
Earlier today I began writing a blog post about the artisan style of entrepreneurship and I began wondering: what is the right amount of meta thinking to do in a given day? Stronico has yet to emerge from beta and I have not earned a reputation as a visionary (yet). Who really cares what I think about […]
Channeling Seth Godin again – being remarkable in a sinister way
Last night while thinking about the Stronico marketing plan I thought about ways in which I’m already remarkable. I am not saying remarkable to brag; I just came up with a list of things other people say about my abilities. They are: Programming: I create useful code generation systems Business: I am easy to work with […]
A workable secret society web application – Brain Trust
I wrote about my desire to form a secret society several months ago and so far have found no suitable web application to help me do that. IMind seems to be the closest complete solution but it seems too jumbled to accomplish much (I’m judging them purely from their website, I have not tried the product.) […]
A lesson learned in QuickBooks – Capital Investments is a magic phrase
Quick Note: QuickBooks refers to an owner’s contribution (i.e. an investment in the business) as a “Capital Investment”. Also, Bank of America charges for their QuickBooks integration. HT: Recording Infrequent Transactions in QuickBooks Does anyone know of any good online only business banks? This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with […]
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 […]