I’m obsessed with blogging. I do it, I love it. I used to read more blogs than most people could ever keep track of. Part of it is my constant push to learn, to grow and to search for new voices. Part of it is that I’m a crazed procrastinator with an unstoppable drive to avoid […]
I have two money rules. Two rules that apply in my personal life, my business life and everywhere else. I only buy the best. And I don’t buy for the sake of it. I’m not interested in saving money. I know, that doesn’t sound like a good thing, but let me put it like this. […]
For me, writing takes up a huge part of my life, from designing my processes, to planning topics, to the actual work of hammering on the keys. I treat writing like a full-time job. I don’t wait for inspiration to come to me. That’s not the way to achieve success in writing. I take my […]
Excited to see my work published by TIME - huge for me.
Any success is going to take a commitment of time, and a solid amount of time at that. No matter where you want your career to go, the only way to get there is to accept that you are going to have to dedicate years of your life to it.
I like to follow one rule. I never start anything that I’m not prepared to commit 5 years of my life to. That’s a long time frame, I know. But it gives me room to plan, to try and to measure what I’ve done.
Thanks Hubspot, for including me in their list of the top 100 quotes from Medium:
“It’s easy to mistake excitement for passion, motivation and ability.”
I believe that being an entrepreneur is like being anything else. You have to learn the right skills, and learn how to apply them, and then strike out on your own. You can learn a lot of these skills through trial and error while you build a company — but you’ll make a lot less mistakes if you can learn them while working professionally.
In today’s post, I’m writing a response to the young entrepreneurs who ask for my advice. And it’s not necessarily kind.
There are a lot of things that make me catch Ubers over Taxis. Most of the time, they all boil down to the terrible experiences that accompany waiting on a street corner attempting to catch the attention of a cab. Let me give you some examples. These are the last 3 times I tried taking […]
I hate doing almost everything. I mean that, I wake up in the morning and I don’t feel like functioning 6 out of 7 days. The one thing that I’ve always had a deep, healthy passion for is creating content. Blog posts, articles, images, videos - I do it for fun as much as I […]
Ron Miller for TechCrunch, writing about the superfluousness of Windows phone:
The question remains; can Microsoft succeed without a strong Windows mobile position? From the looks of things, they don’t seem to have much choice. Nadella appears to be staking his position in the cloud, which is a perfectly reasonable way to play it, while opening up his company’s tools to iOS and Android in the absence of any meaningful Windows phone adoption.
Windows Phone is a failed experiment. It’s an also-ran. And I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if Microsoft were to partner up with someone else to build a Windows flavored Android device.
Steven Sinofsky writing on Medium:
As many have recognized, when inventions and innovations first appear they are often (always) labeled as “toys” or “incapable” of doing “real work” or providing “real entertainment”. Of course, many new inventions don’t work out the way inventors had hoped, though quite frequently it is just a matter of timing and the coming together of a variety of circumstances. It can be said that being labeled a toy is necessary, but not sufficient, to become the next big thing.
I think the mainstream always struggles to visualise a use for a product, until it’s been clearly established and made safe. And the way to get to that point is through the concept of Play.