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Jason’s 120% Solution
If you aren’t already subscribed to Jason Calacanis’ mailing list – subscribe. Jason is smart guy with a lot to say and he gets things done. Jason replaced his blog, for the most part, with a mailing list a while back – I’m a subscriber and reader. Jason’s email today – The 120% solution – talks about the economic crisis, why it happened, and suggests possible solutions. Check it out – it’s a great read.
Origins of Bootstrapping
The Art of Bootstrapping, over on American Express OPEN Forum, is worth reading and appropriate for the times. I learned a little about the origins of the term Bootstrapping as well.
The term bootstrapping comes from the German legend of Baron von Munchhausen pulling himself out of the sea by pulling on his own bootstraps. That’s essentially what you’ll have to do, too.
Quote: Jason Calacanis
A co-worker forwarded a quote from Jason Calacanis to me this morning that I think is worth sharing. I like Jason’s view of the situation and I agree w/ his recommendation to unplug from the news sites and constant updates on the DOW and focus on yourself and your work. Get to work! Make your future.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
Now’s the time to build, so turn off CNBC and forget the Dow. It’s meaningless to you now.
All that matters is your work and your personal progress. – Jason Calacanis
John Doerr’s 10 Tips for Start-ups
AllThingsD captured video of John Doerr, a top VC, presenting his 10 Tips for Start-ups at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” roundtable event. Doerr presents his ten tips in just about four minutes so this is definitely worth your time – start-up or not.
Executive Ecucation and Spelling
I’m can be a terrible speller and average wordsmith so I try to make the effort to always run the spellchecker and have my more important documents edited by somebody other than me. A poorly prepared document can reflect badly on you or your organization. Below, is a good example of a document that should have received a little extra attention before it was sent to thousands of people. I’m sure I’m not the only one that was surprised to see a misspelling like this from the U.C. Berkeley Center for Executive Education.
Seth’s Inbox Culture
Do you spend your day responding and reacting to incoming all day… until the list is empty? … and then you’re done. – Seth Godin
I do.
Email, Instant Messages, Tweets, SMS Messages, Alerts, and FogBugz reports monopolize the bulk of my day. I try to carve out time for “projects” but it’s getting harder and harder to temporarily dam the “incoming” flow. I need to get better an this before I loose perspective on the big picture.
Subprime Foreclosures Illustrated
The New York Times designed this excellent chart to illustrate the subprime foreclosure mess.
The airline industry is stupid …
Surf Report: Ed Cone talks about the stupid airline industry.
I agree with Ed – the airline industry is stupid. I recently had a similar experience on a United flight but I was one of the guys that paid (in advance) for the Economy Plus seat. Tall people (I’m 6′ 5″) think about these kinds of things in advance ; ) By the way Ed – I would have been pretty pissed if they let people move into the Economy Plus seats that didn’t pay for the extra inch. I’m pretty sure smarter airlines will start to emerge from this mess.
Creating Infectious Engagement
The Stanford d.school is hosting a free mini-conference on Creating Infectious Engagement May 6th from 3:30 to 6. The event is open to the public and it is a great opportunity to connect with smart people and benefit from everything the Creating Infectious Engagement team is working on. I will be attending the Stanford Managing Teams for Innovation and Success Executive Education program June 1 – 6.
Our Stanford d.school class on Creating Infectious Engagement is holding a conference next Thursday May 1st from 3:30 to 6:00 that is open to the public. We have some great speakers lined-up who will talk about what it takes to spread good ideas. Please RSVP to Joe Mellin at ciersvp@gmail.com if you will be joining us, as we need to plan for food. The conference is in the new d.school space in building 524 in the learning theatre. A big thanks to Joe for designing this wonderful poster. Please send it along to your friends!
NOTE for the Creating Infections Engagement class: I discovered this event in Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter stream. Lot’s of streams (Twitter, Flickr, Blogs) feeding the rivers (FriendFeed, Facebook, TechMeme) which feed the ocean (national media) these days. Interesting stuff.
Concentric Sky Launches MichaelMoore.com
0 CommentsMonday • October 12, 2009 • by Cale
Recently, I started working for a great company called Concentric Sky here in beautiful Eugene Oregon. At Concentric Sky, we build innovative web sites, iPhone applications, and a whole lot more.
Concentric Sky has a wealth of technologies at its disposal and we have a great team of developers with decades of combined development experience. A couple of the technologies we have a great deal of experience with are Python and Django.
Recently, we used Django to implement Michael Moore’s new website and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Concentric Sky developed the back-end code for this site in Python/Django with a custom administrative interface and social media aware Content Management System (CMS). The site is optimized for millions of hits per day and it has been humming along nicely since it was launched. You can read more about this project on the Concentric Sky blog.
We have a lot of interesting projects in the works and I look forward to sharing some of them here in the future. Stay tuned!