May 12, 2008
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Microsoft’s mission was to “put a computer on every office desk and in every home.”
Today Microsoft faces that most terrifying question, “Now what?”
Bill Gates is leaving to avoid that question, and an organization full of people in “guard my fiefdom” mode can’t answer it.
I wonder if a different mission like “Build the most desirable software [...]
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May 5, 2008
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…is Copyblogger’s The Snowboard, the Subdural Hematoma, and the Secret of Life:
It’s all too easy to tell ourselves we can’t really do what we want. That it’s not practical, or it’s too hard, or that our dreams are selfish and not the “right thing” to do.
I got over that really fast. Every delusional and self-defeating [...]
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April 21, 2008
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I spent 6 years of my 20s as a web designer at an financial services company in L.A. The people were good, the work was occasionally not horrible, and the pay was better than I thought I would ever get with a BA in History, but I had a problem. My portfolio was crap.
For too [...]
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March 24, 2008
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Remember when I talked about a huge artistic breakthrough that dwarfed everything else I did in March?
Here it is:
In true blocked artist style I had been putting the sculpting off even though I had an excellent guide to DIY toy sculpting sitting on my desk.
I’d tell myself: “I’ll just do a few more sketches then [...]
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March 17, 2008
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Last month I wrote almost daily about my self improvement challenge. Writing daily was exhausting, but it helped me stay on track and reinforced all the new positive habits.
This month I wanted to write once a week about the 30 Day Challenge, but I haven’t written about it until now. You also might notice from [...]
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March 17, 2008
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I was reading a passage in Wherever You Go, There You Are about mastery: becoming so good at something that you can do it flawlessly without thinking. To master something you have to practice a lot, but you also have to practice mindfully. That means being aware of what you’re trying to achieve and monitoring [...]
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March 12, 2008
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Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror is one my favorite blogs. Today Jeff announced that he’s leaving his day job as a .NET* developer to build his own software (and blog about it).
I was wondering when he’d make the leap. In June he started advertising because the financial opportunity was too great to pass up (enough that [...]
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March 3, 2008
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February’s 29 Day Challenge was a huge success. For March I’m expanding on some previous goals and adding others:
Get up by 7:30 5 days a week and 9 on weekends - I was already doing this by the end of my previous challenge.
Do at least 1 significant task to create passive income 6x a week [...]
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March 2, 2008
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On February 1st, 2008 I started a 29 day challenge to improve several areas of my life. To ensure that I couldn’t just half-ass it and fail silently I went public with this kickoff blog post.
Even though I didn’t hit every goal every day, I was 100% successful in upgrading my health, habits, and creative [...]
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February 29, 2008
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I plan to write an in-depth post about the results of the 29 day challenge, but until then, here’s the Making the Chain scorecard:
The experiment was a huge success. For March I’m going to enhance these habits and add a few new ones. Hopefully the new goals will spawn Google ads on MtC as hauntingly [...]
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