Category: inspiration
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Face to face meetings: when they are useful
I’ve struggled with having too many meetings where I didn’t find them useful, but I felt that there is 10 minutes of useful information so I go to get that info. This particular week, I’ve had several useful meetings. The 3 attributes of these meetings that made them particularly productive are 1) They are 30…
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Before paying for recurring service, know how they make money
I am in a position to evaluate different point of sale systems for a restaurant I’m invested in (I Privé). There are 3 different business models I have seen. Take a percentage of every credit card transaction, give away the hardware Hosted software, charge a recurring monthly fee per hardware device Sell one time hardware,…
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Having the hunger to standout
Out of a team of 10 people, how do you standout without making others look bad? Figure out what is the BHAG. Out of the 10 features, bugs, on the list of todo, what are the most important pieces that move the needle? Write down all your ideas about improving, developing those 2 things. Ask…
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Anything great worth doing is worth doing (almost) every day
If you want to start doing something and improve and do it really well, I suggest you do it everyday. Even if it is only 10 minutes a day, find some time to do it. 10 minutes a day, 365 a year is 3650 minutes a year, almost 60 hours. You will find that once…
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Spending time on things that matter
When you decide on what to spend your time on at work, try to spend your time that you can actually make a big impact. Otherwise in today’s corporate world, you don’t get credit or acknowledgement on it. Either decide not to work on it, or if you decide to spend X% of time on…
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Back of the envelope calculation
Embrace the fact that you won’t get the exact number right. But make sure to get the order of magnitude correct. Should you be getting 50, 500, 5000, 50,000 customers? If you get 30,000 page views, 6,000 clicks and 50 customers what that’s a good marketing return on investment? Once you have mastered being able…
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On passion
When you are working on something time passes by without you knowing it. When you start creating a list of things that you want to continue improving and you’re actually getting them done. Whenever you have a free moment when you’re thinking about it or doing something for it. You wish you have more time…
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Animation Video by C: Fish & Chips
C. attended a animation summer camp and did this awesome flip book animation http://bit.ly/fishchipsani
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Reading : objc.io, James Patterson, Lisa Tse and Brendan Gregg
My reading list this week: James Patterson, Cross my heart I couldn’t put this kindle book down. One of his best best books and story line. The ending was interesting and left me really want to read the next book in Nov. Getting back to Objective C a bit on http://www.objc.io/ I love the simple and get…
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Android Tips: Centering TextView
Trying to figure out how to align a text inside a TextView for Android. Found the answer on StackOverflow <TextView android:textAlignment=”center” android:layout_gravity=”center_horizontal|center”