April 2008
9 posts
Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the... →
“Imagine that products are mountains. To build a product, you will need to climb that mountain. Some mountains have a big pot of gold at the top, and some do not. In order to make money, you will need to pick the right mountain and then successfully climb to the top and gather up the gold. You can fail by choosing a mountain that has little or no gold at the top, or by dying on the way...
Apr 1st
March 2008
14 posts
Innovation in Wine Labels →
Genius, someone should do this for beer labels.
Mar 29th
Part I of Inside Mahalo, the Human Produced Search... →
Robert Scoble interviews me about how I conduct customer research (listening labs) at Mahalo (13 mins in)
Mar 22nd
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December 29th — It was kind of a Big Day →
Mar 19th
““As for some final Brady news before I go, he is talking up a storm. He...”
– The Osterstock Family: Signing Off For Now…
Mar 17th
Question your work →
“The questions listed above are just some of the questions we’re asking ourselves all the time. At the end of the day it’s all about making the right decisions about the right things at the right time. These questions help us get there.”
Mar 17th
Working hard or hardly working? VC-backed startups... →
Mar 16th
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The Rank-Link Imbalance →
“Our social structure seems to produce significant numbers of people with rank-link imbalances. That is to say, they have all of the social skills required to improve their social rank, but none of the social skills that lead to genuine bonding. They are good at vertical relationships with mentors and bosses, but bad at horizontal relationships with friends and lovers.” (Via Dad)  
Mar 15th
Tiny projects keep it new →
“The best way to optimize for new is to break features and projects down to their atomic level. Keep breaking them down until you all you have left are a lot of small project elements instead of a few big project molecules.” Fantastic advice, but recognize it requires a lot of discipline 
Mar 12th
Super Bowl: Children in need benefit from... →
I always wondered what happened to the apparel made for the losing team, now I know.
Mar 5th
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