THE DREAM IN ACTION

above picture is of my father and my brother in-law to be Alert: This post is not business, travel, or startup related at all. It’s almost completely personal. If you don’t know me you may not find it interesting at all. But I hope that you take what I’ve realized here and apply it to [...]

image via Robert Scoble’s flickr Over the past 2 months I’ve made some drastic changes to how I use Twitter (which I will share below). When I was in China, as I was reading The 4 Hour Work Week, I realized that my control over my own productivity was slipping from my hands. I spent [...]

As you develop a growth strategy for your business there are a few important decisions to be made. The classic choice of what type of a company you’ll be is first; product leadership, operational excellence, or customer service are the basic 3. At some level all companies choose their identity using these 3 categories. You [...]

I recently got a pro account to Remember the Milk so that I could use their iPhone/iTouch application. This allows me use use that device for my to-do lists and view/work these lists from any computer. I now use RTM for my work to-do’s, my personal project to-do’s, and now other lists like Dreams, Things I Want, [...]

My last day in China was another amazing one. I decided to head solo to Tongli, one of the ancient water cities in China. I was to arrive at the bus stop by 8:30a and travel for about 2 hours by bus to Tongli. I chose Tongli because my guide book said that it was [...]

On Auren Hoffman‘s blog, Summation, he posted this yesterday:   “The top 1% of U.S. population now make 23% of income. (& top 10% of the U.S. population make 50% of income). Is this because we live in a winner take all economy???” This got me thinking about Vilfredo Pareto and the 80/20 law. His [...]

Pedestrians absolutely do not have any kind of right of way. Really nobody in Shanghai has a right of way. At one point I was in a cab at 9pm (dark) and there in front of us was a guy on a scooter with no light coming directly at us. He was honking that we [...]

During my adventures in China I read The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. The man is incredibly motivating and thought provoking in his quest to challenge the socially excepted lifestyle of differing retirement to the end of your life. He promotes spreading the fun and the work out and setting up means of [...]

At GE we use NPS or Net Promoter Score to see how our customers view the business. On Eric Ries’s, Lessons Learned blog he also uses NPS to see how his readers are liking and sharing his blog. Today, I’d like to use the same measure to see how I’m doing here on my blog. [...]

Tomorrow I’m headed out of Shanghai for a solo day trip to Tongli, Suzhou. Tongli is a water city also known as the Venice of the East. Apparently the stand-out features of this rural, authentic, and tourist light city are the beautiful bridges and the Chinese sex museum. No, that was not a typo. I’m [...]