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Twitter Nostalgia

March 2, 2010

I’m nostalgic.
When I started on Twitter it was about talking with my online friends from the US. It was about having deep debates. Someone would ask a question or share a link and many would reply. We used to have long talks between five or six people. It was good conversation.
Well, the conversation is dead.
Nobody [...]

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How To Build a Community Of Drones

February 15, 2010

These are the quick and easy steps to build a community of drones:

Make friends.
Promote them so they will promote you.
Screw them over/ ignore them/ use them/drop them while becoming friends with their friends.
Repeat as needed.

In no time, you’ll be praised for your community building skills thanks to those drone followers that are too blind to [...]

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Collaboration 3.0

January 12, 2010

On his post titled “Making The Modern Medici”, Colin Wright talks about the Medici family, people who because of their power and influence were able to help and support artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and many others. These brilliant artists were able to focus on their creations because of the aid and support of [...]

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Bonding By Being Tied

December 31, 2009

To end the year, my very good friend Colin Wright (who writes at Exile Lifestyle) and I are doing some cross-posting about bonding and magnetism. After you read his post, you can go to his blog and check out my post “My Magnetic Bromance,” where I explain why magnetism is the new thing, and you [...]

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To Hell With Personal Branding: Part 2

December 17, 2009

Thoughts of the reactions after the post “To Hell With Personal Branding.”

Most people agreed with it. The ones that didn’t were, interestingly enough, personal branders or people who make money with personal branding in some way. Makes sense: if  my product was a rip off and someone would called me on it, I would defend [...]

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To Hell With Personal Branding

December 3, 2009

Hey, Personal Branding, I have something to tell you:
I don’t care.
I just don’t care anymore. You have prevented me from having fun for the last time.
I bought my URL domain and secured a couple of social media profiles. Your job is done, I’m moving on now.
Because really, all that you’ve ever really taught us is [...]

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Adjusting Resistance

November 3, 2009

Cowards focus on the adjusting part.
The part that still doesn’t work, that’s not as good as the previous situation. Yet.
They do that, because if they have any chance of stopping you, they have to cut you off at that moment.
Adjusting means usually ending up in a better situation. Maybe you are changing job, girlfriend, or [...]

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