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  • 3. Planning is guessing

    Jason says: “unless you’re a fortune teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy” and adds that “when you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone”. So should we call “planning” “guessing”? Sure. At the least it will keep us mindful about impermanence of a plan, while still allowing us to use it and…

  • 2. Learning from mistakes is overrated

    This is referring to the idea of startup community embracing failure too much: “Fail early and fail often”. According to the author, research shows that successful entrepreneurs are much more likely to succeed the next time around, so you shouldn’t embrace the failure.  You should not seek failure as a road to success, but at…

  • 1. Ignore the real world

    This refers to the times when you have an idea, but people tell you “it will not work in the real world’. Such world may be “real” for them, but you don’t have to be in it. Just throw that world out through your window. Most  great ideas start from people questioning the status quo. 

  • REWORK

    I just finished reading REWORK by Jason Fried of 37signals and I found the content and ideas in the book so good that I want to share them with with you, as well as keep a record for myself. I am probably not the only one who needs to constantly be reminded about these great ideas.…

  • Global Cities Forum. 3 days ago in Chicago. Takeaways: 1. Education! 2. Collbalration between ngos, govts and private sector 3. Community empowerment Which would you say is top pruority?

  • I cant cross the street for about 5 minutes now, but i dont mind. About 5000 cyclists just passed, all cheering “happy friday”. I was able to gather that this is called “critical mass”. Happy friday then!

  • Notice the study guides! Ahhh nursing students! Go St Francis nurses, 10 days!

  • Asia’s weight in the world has increased less than commonly assumed, but that is about to (continue) change.

  • fred-wilson: vruz: The economy and the 2010 election —via seashelllz:azspot vruz: yet another maoist-stalinist tactic, make the dow jones grow by 4000 in value in 5 quarters!

  • Yep. Its apple’s iPad. Very smooth browsing, but real functionality will rely on the apps that will be build for this baby. And build they WILL BE!