October 2011
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I am an engineer. And as an engineer I always had a healthy disdain for marketing people. But fact is: marketing matters. We all sell something: We sell our services as a employees. We want to convince others, get a buy-in to our plans. We want people to get our point.
And as Seth Godin says: people have way more choices and way less time now. So this is why marketing matters. It’s a...
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waveybrain:
Tonight I was looking at a product intended for kids to play in water with, but I couldn’t help thinking about the waste and that there are kids (and adults) around the world who would view such surplus with genuine disbelief.
I’ve seen Waves For Water founder, Jon Rose on several live webcasts of surf contests. And, have admired their mission and efforts toward bringing clean...
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Anonymous asked: I'm an aspiring inventor. I want to work on the development of powered exoskeletons. Would you consider electromechanical engineering the correct major for this kind of goal?
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Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of...
“I started to justify it as the right thing for the readers, and then I stopped. And I just kept thinking about Apple and Steve and how they felt. And that’s when I knew my heart was not proud.
I will not regret things professionally. The scoop was big. People loved it. If I could do it again, I’d do the first story about the phone again.
But I probably would have given the phone back...
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relationship bounces and the big bad conflict
From my favorite tech writer Rands:
“We get over these break-ups not because time passes it’s because whoever dumped us usually comes back… several times. I mean it, as long as there is no restraining order involved, the person who dumped you calls you back and you both do something which you both think is stupid, but is actually quite healthy. You hook-up again in some fashion. ...
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Many deleted scenes that usually don’t make it into a skating video..
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