OK, I feel bad giving this thing any criticism since I haven’t actually used it, but I would like to know how you’re supposed to read the display with the set jammed in your ear. Am I expected to take it in and out? How about a voice that reads the phone book entry name …
Author Archives: bryan
Quick GTD with Gmail Tip
Check out this beautiful little URL: fancy! This brings me to my Next Action list. Big deal, right? Well let’s rope in some other technology (that I’m already using) to sweeten the pot of gold: I posted the aforementioned URL into del.icio.us (a social bookmark manager that you definitely should be using) so it can …
Open Source Business
Bren over at Slacker Manager pointed out The Business Experiment the other day in a post and after sitting on it for a few days, I decided it could be quite the learning experience to put on my dancing shoes and join up. This promises to be an extremely interesting exercise, and hopefully will birth …
Wachovia’s Brilliant Customer Disservice
I’ve a new Evil Empire for the list: Wachovia. I know that they’ve always been evil, but I wasn’t a customer of theirs until a few weeks ago when they finally completed their acquisition of Southtrust Bank. The first shameful act of Wachovia is that they purchased and squished one of the best financial institutions …
More ways to drive your success…
As a followup to yesterday’s heated discussion, I ran across the following post today: ten excellent ideas.
Out here in the fields…
…I fight for my meals. I could probably write a book quite effective at helping people prevent making the same mistakes that I have made in the past 8 years or so. This is especially true for financial mistakes. Considering a book deal is pretty much out of the question, I’ll drop a few tips …
What gives?
Robert T. Kiyosaki calls it “charity.â€? Catherine Ryan Hyde calls it “paying it forward.â€? Christians call it “Love.â€? The basic principle seems to be this: Give away what you’re good at, what you need or what you hold close to your heart and the eventual reward will be greater than your initial gift. No matter …
Intersections
According to answers.com there are two mathematical definitions for an intersection: 1. The point or locus of points where one line, surface, or solid crosses another. 2. A set that contains elements shared by two or more given sets. In all of the tasks, people and places that make up life, sometimes intersections can save …
An Antithetical Matter
It has been brought to my attention by friends, people I’ve never even met and by the little voice in the back of my head that it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. While this is true, there is good reason. I set out here to offer, support, and field good ideas on productivity …
Evil Empires
I’m feeling especially angst-driven today. As a result, I’d like to offer up my short-list of evil empires of the world. Wal-mart: Steal from the poor and then offer up sub-standard employment to the poor to keep up the vicious cycle of work to buy (and then buy again because the junk you bought breaks). …