Type: Quickies

My brother recently made the case to me that Peyton Manning should be the 2011 NFL MVP. At first I laughed this suggestion off as a joke, but after giving it more thought, it’s not a bad idea.

Finish reading Peyton Manning for MVP

1. Anyone can come up with an idea for a product.
2. Fewer people can get the resources necessary to make the product.
3. Even fewer can actually make the product with the right resources.

Finish reading Products and Customers

Maybe it’s because I’m a Millennial, but trusting people is tough. Decades ago, it seems that people were much more gullible and susceptible to scams, meaning they were more trusting. The pendulum has swung the other way for me, and I am much less trusting. There are more scams, more grifters, more people out to take than there were in the past, and I am aware of it and have my guard up. It is good in some cases to be defensive, and costly in others.

Finish reading Trust is tough but valuable

My boss Ed sent a quote to our office from Eric Scmidt at a recent conference. The full quote is below.

“Ultimately, search is not just the web but literally all of your information – your email, the things you care about, with your permission – this is personal search, for you and only for you.

Finish reading Autonomous search in the future

Buddha:

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

Being a skeptic is easy. Being persuasive is much more difficult.

Finish reading On persuasion

It’s about what you can accomplish. The ideas are worthless. The execution is where the value is.

Another new design change. I’m starting to think I spend more time in the backend than I do in writing things. Hopefully this version will stick around longer.

Along with the looks, the feed now pulls in shared items, so instead of separating everything out, it is now all in one place. In an effort to please an audience of one, I think I have at least successfully pleased myself.

Finish reading New design for JMO

Choose words carefully, eliminate the unnecessary, craft your message minimally, then Stop.

This is all theory of course, but in the modern age of machines, I would think having a blue-collar job would be very stressful. Not because the job is tough; the opposite in fact. Because the job is so easy, you are now replaceable. By cheaper labor, outsourcing, or a machine that doesn’t need lunch breaks.

Finish reading Stress-free blue-collar work is now very stressful

Here are my big problems with internet comments:

• Too much Spam
• Not really providing a “conversation”
• Not enough to make a difference
• Can be very self serving
• Don’t relate at all to the article topic

Finish reading Are we able to fix Comments?