In Over Your Head

Month: May 2009

  • Invisible Appreciation

    It’s amazing looking at statistics on various URL shortening services. We bloggers have always realized that there was a rough 80/20 (90/10?) ratio between those who comment and those who read, but services like tr.im really put it into perspective. Example: The other night I was tweeting about random old 4chan memes (Rich Raven, Courage…

  • Putting it on paper

    I saw Duncan Moore at a café the other day. We chatted about bootstrapping and some new projects. He looked excited, and I offered up a great presentation on the subject I had seen by one of the 37signals guys*. Later he left, and sent this out to his Twitter stream, below. Here’s the great…

  • If you’ve had enough waffles

    The word waffle is pretty interesting. First of all, it’s negative. It says, “this guy is changing his mind,” and probably over and over again. And sometimes waffling can be bad, but not always. If you don’t change your mind, by definition, you’re accepting the decision made by a younger, stupider version of yourself. Some…

  • Meet the coolest person I know

    We sure travel a lot in social media. Conferences, business meetings, long distance relationships… along the way, we meet a lot of great people that do really exciting stuff all over the world. But we can’t ignore our local talent, either. Last night, I was hanging out with two good friends, also great people, and…

  • Book-a-Week, Part Deux

    Unbelievably, I am still reading a book a week, and have been doing so since January 1st of this year. I’ve been experimenting with this since 2007, so I’m really pleased to say that it’s still working for me. Reading books regularly is the best thing I think you can do for yourself. You read…

  • The Perfect Pencil

    I finally have a task management system that works. A while ago, Chris talked a bit about the systems I taught him to use that, we hope, help him manage the email and tasks he’s dealing with. On my end, i’ve used them for over a year, so I figured I’d put together a list…

  • Bixi bikes: First impressions

    Having just spent a month in Japan and a week in New York, I was pretty surprised to see these Bixi bikes right by my breakfast place this morning. I had seen them in Paris but never used them, so I figured what the hell. You may never have seen something like this before, so…

  • Studying Zen

    So I was in Japan for a month. In a Zen temple, doing a lot of sitting meditation, and meeting a lot of people. My first real break from the internet, except for occasional email, in the past 10 years. The world didn’t collapse. It’s hard to discuss “what I got out of it” in…