Actually, I bought the book, and I read it, and I even tried THE SYSTEM for a bit. It kind of worked. But I didn’t feel any huge weight lifted from my shoulders. It was more like “okay, well, I paid my bills on time instead of two days late.”
But there’s this creepiness about the whole message of GTD, which basically says “stop thinking, start doing.” I can sympathize with that, sort of.
It’s still creepy.
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David Koretz (via Keith Ferrazzi):
I met an editor from one of the major trade publications, and we hit it off. We ended up going out for drinks that evening and speaking off the cuff. When I told my PR firm the next day, they were livid, and warned me, “the media is not your friend!”
That may have been the worst advice I was ever given.
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Bessemer Venture Partners – Anti-Portfolio:
Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation’s oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that stretches back to 1911. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up.
Dave Taylor (via Mary Sullivan):
So the real question to ask your team is: do you have a business or do they have a neat piece of software? A business has a marketing and sales organization, existing customers, a measurable market visibility, a long-term development plan, and so on. Most startups – even some that are funded, frankly – aren’t full businesses. But if a company does have a strong, competitive product, some measurable cash flow, a few good customers, and some visibility in the marketplace, then it’s well positioned to look for some capital to help it grow faster. Investors don’t pay for that first step, though: startups have to get their act together first.
And that’s what’s got me so bothered about people musing in their weblogs about projects they’d like to do. Stop talking about it an just build it. Don’t make it too complicated. Don’t spend so much time planning on events that will never happen. Programmers, good programmers, are known for over-engineering to save time later down the road. The problem is that you can over-engineer yourself out of wanting to do the site.
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I’d like to hear from anyone who has ever had a good experience (as an employee) with stock options or other employee incentives.
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But the counter to Fred’s cliche is that while yes, it can be lonely at the top, it can also be a ton of fun. Having the weight of the company on one’s shoulders also means having the ability to do some exciting things
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It’s weird, I sense my own blogging is about to change quite a bit for a whole lot of reasons (the blogosphere is getting too big for even me to track, for one, and there are tool and service changes coming that made me give up my linkblog (that is obsolete and as soon as one company I’m working with gets their stuff out you’ll see why).
You don’t really have passionate users until someone starts accusing them of “drinking the koolaid.” You might have happy users, even loyal users, but it’s the truly passionate that piss off others enough to motivate them to say something. Where there is passion, there is always anti-passion… or rather passion in the hate dimension.
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Ken Dyck 