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The Acceleration of Addictiveness

Posted: July 27th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."

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The Top Idea in Your Mind

Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But you can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want think about."

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How to Lose Time and Money

Posted: July 6th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"The way most fortunes are lost is not through excessive expenditure, but through bad investments. In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't."

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Organic Startups

Posted: April 16th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"There's nothing more valuable than an unmet need that is just becoming fixable. If you find something broken that you can fix for a lot of people, you've found a gold mine."

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Apple's Mistake

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 12:39pm MST

"Software isn't like music or books. It's too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user. And yet that's what Apple is trying to be with the App Store: a software publisher. And a particularly overreaching one at that, with fussy tastes and a rigidly enforced house style. How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn't like?"

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What Startups Are Really Like

Posted: October 28th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"People just don't seem to get how different it is till they do it. Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to be like a job, and that explains most of the surprises."

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Persuade or Discover

Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"I'd rather offend people needlessly than use needless words, and you have to choose one or the other. If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth. You're always going to have to add some sort of padding to protect their misconceptions from bumping against reality."

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Post-Medium Publishing

Posted: September 17th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"What happens to publishing if you can't sell content? You have two choices: give it away and make money from it indirectly, or find ways to embody it in things people will pay for."

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The List of N Things

Posted: September 8th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"Why do readers like the list of n things so much? Mainly because it's easier to read than a regular article. Some of the work of reading an article is understanding its structure. In a list of n things, this work is done for you."

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Posted: July 22nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in."

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