When you’re launching a new business, determining your pricing is a crucial but extremely difficult task that’s more art than science. Worse, for many businesses, adjusting pricing later is difficult, so you need to get it fairly close to right the first time around, or at least build some slack into the system so you [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with snobbery. Love to indulge in it, hate it when others do, particularly against things that I like. I was thinking about it today in terms of brands and how people love to hate things that are popular. Henceforth I devised a couple of hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1: As the popularity of [...]
Note: Despite the date, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
Almost exactly three months ago, I stopped blogging, pretty much stopped using Twitter, stopped doing most of my daily habits, stopped worrying about my goals, and started working 14-16 hours per day on MightyBrand, a new startup that I’ve been toiling away at for awhile. [...]
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions, both because they’re cliche, and because they’re usually ineffective. People load up on goals and programs and life changes in the first two weeks of January and by February 1st, they’re back to their same old bad habits. In general, I think people try and take [...]
I had the unenviable task today of going to the post office to pick up two packages. There was a line about forty people long and several clerks behind the counters helping people with all the enthusiasm and speed of a drunken gorilla. One of the clerks was apparently only equipped to help people if [...]
I discovered Getting Things Done back in the summer of 2006, just after I graduated from college and moved to San Francisco. Since then, I’ve used it on and off to manage my time and my tasks. I’ve learned a lot about myself and how I work in the process, which I’ll detail in a [...]
I try to blog daily, but I have been silent for the last week due to a nasty case of food poisoning that I got last weekend. I spent the next few days mostly sleeping (to spare you the details) and am just now really getting back into the swing of things. I’ve sent a [...]