“The simple mantra, ‘I know nothing’ has helped me so many times in the past seven years. I owe any success to those simple three words: I. Know. Nothing.”
The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Success in 2017
“You need to divide your audience or customers into two groups. Numbers and people. The numbers are the ones you can’t care about. They’re the faceless statistics that you see in your analytics panel. The people are the ones who talk to you every day, who look forward to your work and want to engage with it. The people are the ones who matter.”
Six Things You Need to Recover from Every Day
“People who are successful in their work are often content being “unsuccessful” in the other areas of their lives — particularly their relationships. In other words, most people are okay with being mediocre spouses, parents and friends, but are not okay with being mediocre in their jobs.”
The Real Reason Amazon Bought Whole Foods
“This is the key to understanding the purchase of Whole Foods: to the outside it may seem that Amazon is buying a retailer. The truth, though, is that Amazon is buying a customer — the first-and-best customer that will instantly bring its grocery efforts to scale.”
35 Words You’re Probably Using Wrong
“Dilemma: Confused with ‘problem’. If you have a problem, you do not know what to do. There may be many solutions. If you have a dilemma, you have a choice of two courses of action, neither attractive.”
Why You Need to Kill Projects Before They Kill You
“The earlier your company can identify, avoid, and dispose of Dead Snakes, the faster you’ll be able to build new products or features your customer actually wants, and grow your revenue accordingly.”
It’s the Best (And Worst) of Times for American Restaurants
“The golden age of restaurants is a bit like today’s golden age of TV. For television viewers, there have never been more options or, perhaps, better quality programming. But as the number of original scripted shows has soared, so has the failure rate. A new drama is now four to five times more likely to be cancelled today than it was in the late 1990s.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.” — Scott Adams
How Do I Know If My Writing Is Good?
When somebody asks for advice, their first question is never the one they REALLY want to ask.
This theory proved true in a conversation I had with someone who likes to write and is trying to figure out if a writing career would be a good fit for him.
12 Truths About Life And Writing
“There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you’re waiting for an organ. You can’t buy, achieve or date serenity and peace of mind.”