June 2011
20 posts
Tell a great story.
I want to learn to be an excellent storyteller. So I searched like a panda, and here’s what I found. Seth Godin’s best storytelling rules: Be consistent and authentic. Promise fun, safety, or a shortcut. Emphasize the worldview of the audience. Suite 101’s best storytelling rules: Start with a catchy beginning. Keep it short. Use silence. Satisfy the audience. And...
11 Reasons Why Starting a Company is Hard ...
Tonight I’m giving a talk at Parisoma to the Hackers and Founders co-op startup class of 2011. Like Paul Graham, I found it helpful to write down what I’m going to say before I say it. My main message is that it’s important to have a network, because you can trade notes with other people who are doing similar things. This is why we started 106 Miles — so that any founder,...
Be excellent.
I want to be truly great. I want to do something great. So the question is, how do we become excellent? You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. ~ xkcd 896 Tony Robbins says being great depends on tiny differences that put a person in a state of certainty. Being...
That it will never come again is what makes life...
I think of Emily Dickinson’s poem as I reflect on the shockingly sudden passing of my dear friend Omar Ahmad, who left this world on May 10, 2011. Omar was a great optimist who made me think about possibility, and he made me want to live everything… Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books...
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it....
We shipped the pre-alpha (alphalpha?) of PandaWhale on Cinco de Mayo. Our alphalpha is at 106miles.net so startup folks can have conversations. Every week we simplify and improve PandaWhale for 106miles.net … For now, we need more pandas … Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
