I use a special email service that lets me create a unique email address every time I sign up for a mailing list. I sign up for Amazon as "amazon@specialdomain.com." Bill's Bait Shop knows me as billsbaitshop@specialdomain.com. If one day, ads for body part...
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How do I manage my brand/content given my forthcoming book?
I'm coming out with the book, "The Get-it-Done Guy's Nine Steps to Work Less and Do More" in August 2010. I'd like to build a business around the book that's sufficient to support me. My theory is that step one is building an audience. I want to build my audience as...
How does your network benefit you?
I'm writing a passage in my book about the power of having a large network. The more supporters you have, the more your network can support you without being a burden on any one member of your community. Do you have any examples of how your network has helped you? As...
What causes you stress?
I'm working on the book's "de-stressing" chapter. I'm not happy with the current draft and want to reorganize it. I'm brainstorming about different causes of stress and how that might drive the chapter. What are your major causes of stress? Mine are deadlines, broken...
To Cut or Not To Cut
The reality of my current book draft is that I need to cut a lot. Thanks to my not understanding the difference between pages in Word and printed pages, my last manuscript was about twice the length the book needs to be. The organizing principle for the book is my tag...
How do you define multitasking?
I'm working on my book chapter about multi-tasking. There are studies out there that show multitasking severely degrades performance. From what I can tell, however, they're talking about trying to do two things at exactly the same time. For example, talking on the...
Don’t use price to choose a computer!
As you know if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I own both a Mac and a PC. I've been a PC user since MS-DOS-only machines. Two years ago I switched to a Mac after having to do three complete disk wipes + reinstalls on my Windows machines (two desktops and a...
Paulson, Obama, Roberts, Cheney: Influence happens, even if you fool yourself into believing it doesn’t.
I'm reading an article on how Henry Paulson had talks with Goldman Sachs when he was designing the financial bailout. Of course he claims there was no favoritism or influence. Politicians also claim they're not too influenced by lobbyists. And a few years ago, Cokie...
I wore jeans. Civilization ended. It was AWESOME!
I wore jeans, fluorescent shoes (see my Facebook page http://bit.ly/gidg for a picture), and a T-shirt to the HBS Club of Boston presentation on "Emerging Billion-Dollar Trends." Nothing happened. People I knew talked to me. The presenter hugged me. The guy sitting...
Would you wear jeans + T-shirt to business event? Why or why not?
I am going to a business presentation tonight and am coming straight from my writing haven to the event. I wear jeans, a T-shirt, and sneakers in the Haven. I've noticed that the thought of going to the business presentation dressed like that is scary to me. Scary....