Whether we seek it or not, we are a permanent and constant target of information from the net, from daily nuances and encounters, and from the organic information generated by our own brain-mind complexity. And we can choose to overuse that information until we become inconsistent people, or eliminate the useless information and focus...
The Big Apple offers more of everything than anyone of us could experience in a lifetime. On Monday Mornings, NYC blogger Gotham Gal brings us reviews of the entrepreneurship spirits of the women she encounters in her path and describes the experiences as an honor to meet so many women who are marking their...
Success, as beauty, is in eye of the beholder. Recently I read a post titled What We Talk About When We’re Dying, and although I thought it would be a depressing post, it wasn’t. It reinforced a belief that it’s in our dying beds where we might truly understand the quality of our success...
One of the greatest value Lean Startup methodology offers is that it forces a startup to pay attention to when the market is telling it that it’s time to pivot: …develop the judgment to know when it’s time to change direction and when it’s time to stay the course. That’s why so many lean...
If you ever listen to an interview with Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, or read one of her posts, you might agree with me that she is an endless fountain of transcendent advice for startups. One of my favorite interviews is one she did with The National Center for Women and Information...
If you’ve ever played a game of maze, whether real structures or digital ones, you probably went thru something like this: 1. Before you started the game you clearly understood that it’s rigged and that there is an exit or price somewhere, you won’t be trapped in the maze forever, 2. The moment...
In logic, consistency (consistent theory) is one that does not contain a contradiction. Thus, in logical terms of consistency, we could say that humans can’t be consistent since contradiction is a natural characteristic of being human. Our ability to change our minds and contradict some previously held belief when new information becomes available is...
The odds are that while playing games as a child you were often in the flow, that irreplaceable mental state where you’re so immersed in the game that the full involvement brings the game to live. Sadly, getting to the flow becomes more difficult as we get older since it is harder to keep...
As a leader or founding member of any project or startup, it is necessary to surround yourself by people talented in their areas of contribution. However, it is indispensable that everyone of them, and you, operate as a single mind capable of carrying on the CoDePPFP regardless of what life throws at you. Without...
Are you aware of the 700+ decisions you make daily? Are you happier when you get to choose for yourself or when others do so? When faced with choosing to join the masses and adapt a newly released product, do you jump in and just get it or do you wait? Are you an...
In physics a Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated… Last year I saw a bad Tim Robbin’s movie whose only redeeming quality was a line said by a woman to a man...
Are you successful? If you can define what success is, have you ever been so? Is success becoming a millionaire or getting 50,0000 followers? Or is it overcoming your weaknesses enough so you no longer focus on them? Or have you already lived most of your life and have come to define it as...
In the morning of a gorgeous Colorado day, a small black cat decided to adopt us and showed up at the edge of the canyon by our mountain home. I named him Leo. In no time, Leo figured out that our dogs had to obey their masters, so no way on earth would they...
If you ever hike to the top of Mount Olympus in Washington state just at the right time in the morning, you might experience the true meaning of being above the clouds. Unlike the experience from within a plane, the sense of personal and private enrichment is almost tangible there. Over the weekend, while...
Few things can overshadow the spectacular beauty of the Grand Canyon South Rim. The North Rim is one of those. From the South Rim, you enjoy the surreal beauty of the canyon at a tremendous distance and with a massive abyss separating you from the gorgeous formations. From the North Rim, your experience is...
There are very few places in the world that demonstrate human’s ability to create something practical out of natural beauty and make it even better than the original. Lake Powell, IMHO, is one of those places. I just finished reading Ethan Marcotte’s extraordinarily easy-to-read and useful book Responsive Web Design for the second time...
Unless something extraordinary happens before I black out this site for tomorrow’s protest, I won’t be doing my coffeetoast tomorrow morning. But I’ll do a double one today and this afternoon I’ll raise my cup (of cappuccino) in honor of all the sites that go black tomorrow in protest of SOPA. And here it...
If you have ever hiked to the top of Angel’s Landing, you would probably agree with me that it is a much, much better experience if you are alone or with someone you truly trust versus hiking it with the crowds of (inexperience) strangers that join the hike by mid morning. In the connectivity...
In his enlightening and entertaining book Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson gives us a simple, but powerful argument: Connectivity has been the primary engine of creativy and innovation. His main lesson is that Chance Favors the Connected Mind. This is an excellent argument both in favor and against my own post from...
On January 11, Farhad Manjoo dared to write a piece titled I’m Not Here To Make Friends*, which I recommend you to check out if you find yourself wasting precious time scanning thru the noise you get via your social media venues or have simply given up. Twitters alone generate over 250 million tweets...
