Month: December 2008

The army’s formation is like water. The water’s formation avoids the high and rushes to the low. So an army’s formation avoids the strong and rushes to the weak. Water’s formation adapts to the ground when flowing. So then an army’s formation adapts to the enemy to achieve victory. Therefore, an army does not have…

So, probably wrapping up the talk we’ve been having about ecosystems (1, 2), we bring it back to what we were chatting about a few weeks ago about why bloggers are short-changing themselves out of influence by giving up blogging for Twitter. Making the decision One of the main things you have to decide on…

Dunno that this is worthy of a blog post, but I figured I’d get in on it anyway. Chris is being harassed by a bunch of guys right now because they’re saying that the blog post he wrote on his Dadomatic blog changed the way they see him. I’m not here to criticize that; they…

I’ve given some more thought to the subject of a previous post about starting companies inside ecosystems. Turns out there’s another side to this, and it’s pretty obvious: Building the ecosystem that can support others. Let’s say you start a site that’s a currency converter (to continue the example from the previous post). You have…

No matter what’s going on in your life, this video should make you feel better.

My corner breakfast place has two bathrooms. Both were identical, and neither used to have signs. Last week, they put these up.       At first it’s clear, right? “Oh, this one is female and that one is… hey wait a minute.” Exactly. There was a brief moment of zen (or something) when I saw this.…

Lots of people who want to start businesses seem to want to become billion dollar ones and, hey, that’s understandable. Huge is sexy. But what about something else, something which I think is a big deal but not talked about that often. Starting a business inside another business. Think Facebook apps. This isn’t the way…