by Johnny | Aug 1, 2007 | Marketing
Over at Zen Habits is a post of 75 things that brighten your day.
Some of my favourites:
1. Listening to good music in the car.
2. Taking a long, relaxing shower.
3. A good novel.
3. Walking on the beach.
4. Being lazy on a Sunday.
5. Getting a massage.
6. Taking a hot bath.
7. The feeling after a good workout.
8. A clean desk (not gonna happen).
9. A fresh snow (I want to go ski now!).
10. watching the ocean.
Thanks for pointing it out, Bnox. And what are YOUR top simple pleasures?
by Johnny | Jul 23, 2007 | Marketing
OK, so I neglected the blog a little bit… OK, so I neglected the blog a whole lot lately, committing virtual suicide on the blogosphere.
but now I’m back, with a new job and all. I’m now part of the new and exciting world of venture capital in my new role of marketing and events manager for Intel Capital in EMEA. That’s the venture capital department of Intel in you’re really in the dark on this.
by Johnny | May 10, 2007 | Marketing
“a collaborative biography of every person on earth.”
WikiYou .. coming soon?
by Johnny | May 10, 2007 | Marketing
I’m at the Intel Capital CEO summit this week. One of the interesting speakers there is Ram Shriram from Sherpalo. He is a founding board member of Google, for one, and made some interesting remarks while on stage.
Rather than type them all out here, just follow this link to Olaf de Senerpont Domis’ article. He is covering the conference on his blog, The Deal.
by Johnny | Apr 21, 2007 | Marketing
This one is so funny, and oh so true. Just had to post this list of Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them from Mashable.
10 semi-truths Mashable uses “for the sake of brevity, hyperbole or just plain laziness“.
1. “It’s the X of Y!!” Wherein X represents a hot service with $25 million in VC, and Y represents something that has no fathomable relation to X. Example: Cheese is the YouTube of foodstuffs.
2. “it’s entering a crowded market” Truth: this is the 21st frigging social bookmarking site I’ve reviewed this week.
3. “it’s lightweight version of X” Truth: site has less features than your browser’s About:Blank page.
4. This one may “gain traction” – A Mashable stalwart. Truth: I have no clue whether this startup will take off, but if it happens, I called it!
5. “it’s very alpha”. Truth: site is less reliable than MySpace, a fact that should defy the laws of physics.
6. “it needs more work”. Truth: if there was a state before alpha, pre-alpha, and super pre-alpha, this site would be it.
7. “it has failed to gain traction” – Truth: pwned.
8. “a social network with XX million users” Where XX is a totally fictional number the founders made up, and we took it as fact.
9. It’s The XYZ Killer!! – Wherein XYZ represents an amazingly popular one-of-a-kind service and the thing doing the killing launched today on a server in the 13 year old founder’s bedroom.
10. “?” Ah, the question mark, the ultimate lie! Printing an unsubstantiated rumor from a stranger named Dave is bad journalism. You might be wrong. But put a question mark after it, and you called it either way! Suggestions: Digg Acquired by Donald Trump?, Metacafe Worth $1 Trillion?, Queen of England Reads Mashable Daily?
by Johnny | Apr 19, 2007 | Marketing
The Elephant and the Flea (Charles Handy)
The Elephant and the Flea is both a poignant personal memoir and a deep reflection on the past and future of world capitalism, with all its possibilities and pitfalls. In a tone that is at once learned, genial, witty, and wise, Handy takes us on his life’s journey, looking back to his childhood and education and how they prepared (or, rather, did not prepare) him for a career in business, the changing nature of organizational life within the context of the old economy and the new, the great variety of capitalism around the world, and through it all, his struggle to find meaning and fulfillment in work. Handy uses the quirky, powerful metaphor of the elephant and the flea to describe vividly and critique the great shift from the prevalence of behemoth, slow-moving, bureaucratic organizations that provided a lifetime of security and not much freedom or room for creativity, to a world in which we are much more independent and flea-like, flitting from job to job, latching onto elephants when we need to, but mostly flying solo and without a net.
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