I got a topic from Kade Ross (@kadeross) last night related to an article about the effect of increasing headcount on employee productivity. You can read the article here. The gist of the article is this: for every 10% you increase company headcount, productivity drops by 6.3% for each employee. Kade calls this the borg, […]
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TWAM
Tonight I posted a tweet about hating my iPhone. It happens from time to time. I promptly received two or three replies from Twitter bots offering me new Apple gear. Does anyone know if there is a plugin yet for TweetDeck to block TWAM? If not, there needs to be. I read about a company […]
You Have to Believe
your own bullshit. Trying to convince someone else that you have something worthwhile to offer when you don’t believe it yourself doesn’t work.
Stick a fork in me
Last night was my last night as the head coach of varsity boys basketball at Trinity Academy. I spent the last four winters doing something that I never thought I would have the chance to do, and it was both more work and more fun than I could have imagined at the beginning. Sports, for […]
Four Questions To Ask About An Idea
I was at lunch with a local successful entrepreneur today, and he shared these four questions to ask when figuring out whether or not an idea is worth pursuing. I thought they were really good, so sharing with the rest of the world: Is it commercially viable? ( somewhat obvious, but a good place to […]
That’s Amore
Love means different things to different people. I think, when we are young, we all think love is romance. Of course, we are young and stupid, so we really don’t know. I offer a public tribute on this Valentine’s Day to Shelley, my bride of 16+ years. This is what love looks like to me: […]
The Value of OPO
Over the last few weeks I have realized how valuable other people’s opinions are, and furthermore how valuable collaboration is. This is not a universal truth. Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly have lots of opinions, but I am not sure how valuable those opinions are. Sometimes you need people around to answer your questions. Sometimes […]
Don’t Say It’s Free Unless It Is
We have had an uptick of break-ins in our neighborhood. Apparently the security companies are aware of this, and one of them and paid us a visit over the weekend to sell us a new security system. When they came to the door, they started their pitch with “You just need to put our sign […]
Books To Read – February 2011
The Rational Optimist By Matt Ridley I am not much of an optimist, or at least I should say I haven’t been in the past. As I have gotten older, I have realized that much of my pessimism was due to the fact that I paid too much attention to what other people were saying. […]
The Death Spiral Of The Cheapest
I was in a meeting a couple of days ago with a non-profit organization that is doing great things ( or at least trying to ). They are building out a donor platform that I think could be really interesting down the road. The application is about 90-95% completed, but can’t be launched because they […]