The race is long and, in the end, it is only with yourself.
The Sunscreen
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Jira from Atlassian SUCKS
Jira, the project management and bug tracking software from Atlassian SUCKS BIG TIME. It sucks so much that I had to log into my website and write this rant even though I have a thousand other more pressing things to do. Jira and it’s lack of brilliance is the most irritating piece of software I have had the misfortune of experiencing and almost not using at all since Windows 98.
Hiring a Technical Person
I ran into a post about interviews in the PC/tech world on The Daily WTF. It forced me to write this rant because I’ve seen too many posts made by complaining PC types.
So I’ve interviewed countless people, managed various types in various settings, and the game works the same EXCEPT when it comes to computer people.
If a non-tech person shows up for an interview, they do their best to impress. When a tech person shows up, they all have entitlement issues and think they are infallible.
The normal procedure goes along the lines of the candidate trying to impress the interviewer and making them feel like they belong on the team.
The normal procedure when hiring a tech guy is trying to impress them and convincing them they belong on the team.
This stuff takes time to get used to. Tech people are dangerous, because they control your assess and your access to them. But because there is such demand for skilled PC guys, they have the upper hand. Most of them seem to think they are better than what they actually are however.
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Your marketing should do the barking and your product do the talking.
Unless you are a multi-level marketing company of course. Click to read more about product quality versus marketing hype.
Marketing vs. Product Value
Marketing is considered important by most people. If you are an entrepreneur chances are that you spend a serious chunk of time on it. But can really great marketing fill the gaps of a lackluster product? It depends if you are selling value or selling hype.
Selling Hype
There are a few good examples of products being sold thanks to marketing despite being good in any way at all. Those things usually come out of multi-level marketing pyramid schemes, get rich quick schemes and other deceptive marketing channels such as TV Shop. Yes, these products sell but they are not the cash cows of most of these business models. Multi-level marketing makes money on its membership fees, TV Shop actually makes money on their products thanks to their audience who are watching TV when most of us are working (read into that however you want) and get rich quick schemes make money on selling you expectations rather than results/tangible products.
Thoughts on Relativity
Protons can sporadically appear and disappear. They are subatomic and infinitely small and of almost no mass.
The universe could also have been created in a similar fashion, and will disappear in a similar fashion. But becausue of its mass, there is more inertia and time distorts and gets slower.
For a proton to instantaneously appear and then disappear almost immediately later seems really fast to us. It can happen because of its close-to-nothing mass and almost no inertia.
Measuring the age of a human in proton years makes it seem really long. Measuring the age of the earth in human years makes it seem very long. Measuring the age of our galaxy in earth years makes it seem really really long because of its mass. And measuring the age of the universe in galaxy years makes it seem really really (really) long. What happens if we measure the age of whatever the universe is part of in universe years? Probably long to the point where time stops completely, just like before the big bang.
Each step involves more mass, more mass involves more inertia and more inertia means slower time or a slower cycle. So, the universe could be just like the proton that appears from nowhere and disappears as quick, but on a universally grander and slower scale.
We are so small and live such a small fragment of this entire process that it seems eternal to us.
A Sunset on Mars
Watch and behold, a sunset on Mars. At first it struck me as “another” interplanetary video, but come to think about it, it is pretty amazing.
Out there, one year away from our own planet a little robot landed and shot HD video — and it all looks like Arizona. It’s crazy how a place that far away can look so familiar. Imagine going on a hike into the wild, spending a whole day trekking through hills and slopes. You climb a small mountain and finally arrive at an outlook. You probably feel completely at one with nature; small, fragile, an observer of something greater.
Now, keep that concept in mind but imagine that you travel upwards in a one-man space shuttle through deep space. After one year you arrive at the location below, totally alone on Mars. Everything looks familiar but you are one year away from anything you would remotely call home.
The universe is full of these places, there are billions of them. And most of them are incredibly vast and incredibly empty. We are truly small and insignificant in the eye of the universe. I wonder what other kinds of species might be dwelling out there somewhere in space, seemingly all alone in a vast empty void just like us. The next time you are moved by a sunset, remember the video below. Every day there are billions of sunsets but most of them will go unseen forever.
The Secret to Success
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$13 million is not bad in CASH. But I have a feeling this a brick and mortar-type guy. Who deposits $300,000 in checks? Probably a car salesman. Anyways good job secret millionaire.
Ideas vs. Execution vs. Vision – What’s More Important?
Ideas, execution and vision are big words in entrepreneurship. They constitute what most success is made of. Even so, people rarely mention them in the same sentence and tend to play favorites. “Execution is more important than ideas” is a common notion held among certain business people.
The truth is a different story. To create something of extreme success you need to give each of them equal importance. Ideas, execution and vision are in fact interdependent and because of that they can result in some amazing synergy. A good idea cannot hold its ground on its own, but combined with equally good execution and vision the resulting combination will be worth more than the sum of its parts. Let’s take a closer look:
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Stop wanting things from life. Let life come to you instead.