Category: General

From my contact form: Can’t believe that Michael Port suggested this as a good example of a blog in his book Book Yourself Solid. The foul language is something I’d hear from a prepubescent kid and quite frankly made me question Michael’s professional integrity and it certainly ruined his image in my mind… I guess […]

DropBox (http://www.getdropbox.com/) is one of the best things ever and I find their method for gathering customer feedback too cool: This little widget hangs out in the app until you click it – then after you click it you see a simple comments form: I can hear a thousand CRM managers screaming out in terror […]

Glorious rant about the Ad-Block wars  leads to an alternative case for social media: You want attention for your goods or services? Make them the best you can. We’ll fucking find you, ok? Eliminate your marketing department and take all of that money and all of those resources and refocus on making a product that […]

As the Star Trek juggernaut barrels through pop culture again, many of my co-workers and non-Trek friends are asking us what the hell the big deal is. In our house, Star Trek was our post-Sunday morning mass + donuts for breakfast TV programming. And then when the Next Generation show came on it was the […]

I think LinkedIn is a fantastic site that grows in value through gradual cultivation. I’ve worked in several industries, in several cities, and it wasn’t until these different transitions started to accumulate that I started to collect a truly valuable set of contacts – and I didn’t do that ‘add anyone and everyone‘ approach but […]

I’ve always wondered if maybe the human impetus to tell stories and the near-universal ingredients of a ripping yarn are perhaps genetic – that the human brain feels joy when being told a great story (this would plug into Joseph Cambell’s monomyth theory). I point to spiderweb patterns as examples of animals that create certain […]

Don’t forget to floss: So, how do you brush your teeth in space? So, start by filling a drink bag with water and bring it with you to the hygiene area. Tuck it behind a rubber bungee. Remove your hygiene kit from behind its bungee and unzip it. Find your toothbrush inside of your hygiene […]

From a discussion on Metafilter: Yeah, I don’t think the problem is that it is music for children, but that it is so thoroughly product. That being said, if you don’t believe The Stones were also product, and if you think rock and rolls “sex, drugs, groupies, etc.” narrative is often equally inauthentic and equally […]

A look behind the six-day marathon to create one episode of South Park. Keep in mind that one Simpsons episode takes 3 months to produce: Each episode of “South Park” comes to life in 6 days, start to finish — a crazy pace for an animated series Even crazier: each episode arrives at Comedy Central […]

Garret Murray is an iPhone app developer and a change in Google Analytics caused his app to suddenly stop working properly. He fixed the problem and uploaded the new version of the app to the App Store where it languishes – waiting to be approved by Apple – while customers leave terrible reviews on iTunes […]