From the category archives:

Transparency

The Blur

February 16, 2010

Today I guest post David Spinks’ blog.
You can subscribe to David’s blog here. Follow David on Twitter here.
David is a guy I respect enormously because of his integrity and the quality of his ideas. Thank you David for asking me to do this, it was a pleasure once again.
Do read my guest post “The Blur” [...]

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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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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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The Media Attention Whores

November 19, 2009

There are two ways to do things:
You can talk about the things you’re going to do, and then do them.
Or you can just do them.
Sadly, people seem to value more the former way of action.
The one that makes a big fuss about it.
The one that needs selfish justification.
The one that’s fake.
The problem is we encourage [...]

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Calling Out Doesn’t Work

October 16, 2009

After this post some people told me that I should call out those people that I disagree with. Here’s why I won’t do it:
- There’s a fine but very visible line between disagreeing and calling out.
- People don’t like to hear the truth. The odds that my calling out will spark honest self-criticism instead of [...]

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Chance To Leave

October 13, 2009

Tomorrow I’ll be posting my 100th spark.
I was planning on posting this when I hit that number, but since it’s a guest post and I already made the commitment I decided to do it one day earlier.

First of all, thank you.
For the support, the ideas and the frequent disagreements. Those things keep me going, [...]

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Beware Of Recyclers

September 30, 2009

Would you like to know what’s the mark of a maven?
Recycling.
That’s what “experts” get to do. If they can paraphrase what they’ve already said many times, and still be followed, then it’s a sign that they’ve made it.
Recycling isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it’s important to perceive it, because that’s how you realize when [...]

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