If you’re interested in ideas about increasing the number of visitors to your website, check out this presentation that I gave to Austin’s Hacks and Hackers. The purpose of the group is to connect developers (hackers) with journalists (hacks). The Most Important Take Away People love data …when the data is about themselves. The Rest [...]
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How do you _________ so much?
From time to time, I get asked “How do you tweet so much?” Since I only send out about 5 tweets a day, I think what people are really asking is: “How do you find time to tweet?” Twitter is an In-between Activity. The Answer: my day usually involves running at least 2 to 3 [...]
Selectively Unleashing Your Inner Perfectionist Control Freak
A few days ago, I sent out a tweet that was supposed to say “sexiest job of the decade.” But I misspelled “sexiest” as “sexist.” It was a funny mistake, but I still felt like an idiot. Yesterday, Anthony (Cubit’s other founder) said: “Starting my own business has cured me of my perfectionism. It can [...]
7.5 Easy Steps for Raising $15,000 for New Urban Planning Technology
Today, I’ll be presenting 7.5 Easy Steps for Raising $15,000 from Investors For Your New Urban Planning Technology at the MIT Planning and Technology Conference. Below are slides from the presentation and the video on YouTube. The slides are hard to see on the video, so you might want to watch the video while clicking [...]
ToDo List Tips: Using A Secret Weapon to Attack Your ToDo List
Everyone I know is busy. The kind of busy where even if you work for 7 days straight with no eating or sleeping, you still couldn’t finish the todo list. The kind of busy where you might as well watch re-runs of “That 70s Show” as opposed to working, because even if you’re amazingly productive, [...]
