Two days ago I sent this email to my private newsletter: In two days, I’m launching a one-week bootcamp, showing you how you can learn faster, get more work done and take action. Best of all, it’s completely free. Over the next ten days, I’ll be sending you free guides, video tutorials and case studies […]
Archives for February 2011
Building Cool Things
If you were given a room of 200 people, and only had time to ask one question about each person, which question would you ask to guess whether or not they would be wildly successful in life? The obvious candidate questions would be, “are you smart?”, “are you ambitious?”, “hard-working?” But, as I think about […]
The Empathy Problem
I made a mistake in empathy that cost me tens of thousands of dollars. It wasn’t a case of bad customer service or a botched partnership. It was something a lot simpler: I didn’t understand how people read blogs. I thought people read blogs as I did, subscribed to only a few, with the queue […]
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