Why do business cards still exist? We can just email (or IM or Twitter or bookmark or tumblelog . . . ) the information around. For example, dear reader, you don't need my business card—you can just bookmark the blog on de.lioci.us (and gosh, you should!), then log in and hit "contact" whenever you want to reach me. What's easy to … [Read more...] about Do business cards have to suck?
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Make something for its own sake
Why do we make the things we do? If you have a business, a blog, a Web site—why do you put the hours in? I picked up Robert Fritz's Path of Least Resistance, based on the description from Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA Reading List. It took me some time to get into it, but as I've slowly chewed my way through, one idea in particular really jumped out … [Read more...] about Make something for its own sake
Generosity
Another great question from Seth Godin—if you weren't looking for anything in return from a friend, customer, or prospect, What's the most generous thing you could do? I'd probably build them a Squidoo lens. I'm indebted to Godin for writing a lot of stuff that's improved my thinking, and more recently for linking to my SquidWho lens about Pema … [Read more...] about Generosity
One sentence
These are addictive. Stories told in a single sentence. My favorite so far is:The next morning she told me she was married, and I told her that I was in her geography class 8 years ago.Two lessons in this. One, brevity is beautiful. Two, I found it using StumbleUpon, my new favorite thing on the Internet. It's old hat to the blognoscenti, but … [Read more...] about One sentence
