In two days Apple will release a new version of its Mac operating system, so last Saturday I watched the guided tour and read about all of the 300 new features of “Leopard.”
I thought my strong interest in the new operating system was justified since I’m going to take the opportunity to replace my [...]
I’m reading Peter Drucker’s Managing the Nonprofit Organization. During his interview with Dudley Hafner, then CEO of the American Heart Association, they discuss charitable giving as a form of speech:
Peter Drucker:
My European friends always point out how low the taxation rate is in the United States. I say, you are mistaken because we voluntarily [...]
Thursday evening I presented briefly at the Utah Facebook Developers Garage. Here are the links and articles I shared:
How big is it?
Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur ยป Prediction: Facebook will be the largest social network in the world
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
iLike Loves an Open Facebook - MarketingVOX
Current growth
Facebookizing the Web, Webifying Facebook [...]
Oneness with work is “flow”.
Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. (source)
The act of creating something, whether it be an article, a poem, a [...]
I recently read similar passages from two very different books.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, chapter 5, “The End of Time Management”:
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness [...]