Daily Deals are not getting it yet
Did you know that I don’t want to buy a wallet at 64% off? Yeah… it’s unbelievable right! But I am happy with the one I have. Did you ask me what kind of deals I was interested in when I first gave you my email address and location? Did you ask me my gender or age?
Clearly you didn’t! You do need to reduce friction but you do also want me to come back to check out new deals don’t you?
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I’m astonished by how many have never heard of Khanacademy.org - you should tell any school student’s you know about this site - where they can learn through easy videos from this gifted teacher(Salman Khan) and other volunteers.
10 Ideas for future Schools - Gurgaon and everywhere
So, the latest trend is that we understand that a child needs to explore and learn their potential. Things like “let the child learn what he wants to” are being said a lot by new parents these days. Of course most people also do understand that certain other things are important too…
- Basic language, science and mathematics
- Basic behavioral and social science
- Basic physical education and sports
I have often wondered if what I learned in high school (10-12) helped me in any way - I mean trigonometry, calculus - I frankly cannot remember any of it. So was it of any use?
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Derek Sivers - Art of Profitability - 8 different models of profitability.
It’s a nice talk but the real value is at the end where he talks about the email confirmation which is sent to their customers when they buy a cd from their company. It’s goofy and you can read it here…
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
Dr. Madhukar Shukla’s Advice on online communities
“Internet is a terrain and not a tool. Its about emerging and not appointing. Create intricate touch-points in a community, based on what is required by the members. Such as a new employee who logs in to the company intranet, may find ads with houses for rent and suggestions for new like-minded work-buddies and projects with similar skill-sets.”
There is always way more than what we can understand when we first glance over a line of text written by an intellectual giving you advice, and I am still trying to figure out the first point and trying to apply this into our perspective.
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I am loving this guy Derek Sivers - I was thinking of doing a writeup on “Ideas Vs Execution” and then I saw this - his story says it better than anything I can write up. The idea is just a multiplier - execution is the money!
A post By Bronnie Ware who has worked for many years in palliative care. Basically taking care or the dying - the last few weeks of their lives. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five…
Derek Sivers does a great job of telling the story of how policies are often formed to wage war against a minority crowd who do wrong things - and the tendency is to go ahead and punish everyone for it. While sometimes it makes sense if the possibility of damage is greater than the good that would come if the policy doesn’t exist, most of the times it’s just plain stupid.
An example of this is happening right now at my son’s school - they have suddenly introduced strict policies regarding letting parents into the school.
“Steven Jobs “The greatest people are self-managed - they don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it - they don’t need to be managed at all! What they need is a common vision - and that’s what leadership is. What leadership is, is having a vision, being able to articulate that, so that people around you can understand it - and getting a consensus on a common vision.”
HELVETICA - this is a documentary I ran into about the font “Helvetica” while searching “the most readable font for the web.” It’s very long and almost like a history lesson - so watch it when you have a lot of time. It’s slow but fascinating.
