My weaknesses have made themselves apparant over the past few days, here is a preliminary list. The first entry is the topic, the one below that is the specifics, and the one below that is the practical step to get me to an adequate level in under ten hours.
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Seth Godin posted seven questions all entrepreneurs should answer. The more I try to answer these questions the more useful they become.
Here I go with my attempt. I first list the “off the top of my head response” and then the edited response so I can show the evolution:
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The internet is filled with hatred of QuickBooks. After doing much of the hating myself I realize now that people do not hate the program because of what the program can’t do; they hate QuickBooks because the program discourages them in small ways at every opportunity. Using QuickBooks is like wading three miles through a swamp to pay your taxes. If you took away half of the options and removed the unwanted spontaneous advertising you would have a nice program. Read more on Is it time to replace QuickBooks with Less Accounting?…
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People use some phrases to make themselves feel better, not to add anything to the conversation. Using these phrases annoys everyone in earshot and decreases motivation to fix the underlying problem. My preliminary list:
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So far 2010 has been the year of gradual improvements in life, health and productivity. I made most of these changes based on what I learned in Brain Rules. Here is a snapshot of my changes so far:
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As Stronico is a helpful way to keep track of people, we must also keep track of their personalty traits, even if it is only a spot impression. My preliminary list of things to track
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came across some of Richard Florida’s work online yesterday (Florida is the author of “The Creative Class” and the creator of the notion that creative people should self-segregate) and I began wondering: why do Ivy League institutions produce so few creative people? Read more on Is an Ivy League education pointless for creative people?…
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For reasons unknown I spent most of yesterday dealing with salespeople. One common component of all the salespeople was the instinct to “Close”. The longer the contract period (these were all service companies) the stronger the close instinct.
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I’ve long viewed web development as a shifting balance of power between graphic designers and software developers. A rough timeline would go something like this Read more on The civil war between designers and developers shifts to developers…
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What is a preventable cause of scope creep? Anxiety. Anxiety attacks project managers at the end of projects, making some or all of the following happen:
The cause of the above is a difference in anxiety between you and the client. The web developer experiences the highest anxiety and least clarity at the beginning (least specific point in terms of development) of the project and the lowest anxiety and most clarity at the end of the project.
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