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Igor ByttebierAnyone know what happened to his other book "creeëren"? Was it ever published? Thought it was quite interesting subject matter.
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nothing ever rests.Rest is relative anyway. What if two things move parallel in the same direction at the same speed. Would they consider each other moving, or would they consider their context moving. It's interesting how we perceive the sun as a moving object (for example at a sunset), but when we're moving in a car we don't consider the road to be moving but ourselves. How does our brain make this distinction and what can we learn from it?
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One thing leads to another, meaning that you first have to take one step before you can take the next. This makes motion targeted, focused, less free.aka sequential
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We don’t have a focus, but we do focusI find it hard to focus since I find many things interesting. I try to relate any distraction to the thing/project I consciously want to focus on. This way distractions become ways to explore different directions within the one topic.
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Remixes happen within a community of remixers.What is a community? A group of people with a shared hangout space (virtual or otherwise)? Instead of a space, can I also be a shared piece of content?
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In the language of today’s computer geeks, we could call the culture that Sousa celebrated a “Read/Write” (“RW”) culture:* in Sousa’s world (a world he’d insist included all of humanity from the beginning of human civilization),Note lalalalaal
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iBooks on the iPad offers the ability to enlarge images when viewed in ePub files.Unfortunately this is not available yet in the openmargin app.
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John Cleese describes, in a fascinating talk,Saw this a few years ago while doing research for my thesis and has changed my thinking about creative processes since. Especially the idea of the two modes: open and closed really resonated with me. Wish I could annotate that video! Go and see it.
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holds up to our own understanding and organization of our lives that can be rather daunting.(shame the excerpt is spread across two pages so I couldn't select it fully) Great insight. When something appears complex, it isn't necessarily that thing that's complex, but our understanding may be lacking. Complexity is in the eye of the beholder. Something like that? :)
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In practicing a workflow with a goal of working it into intrinsic memoryWhenever you repeatedly do the same thing you're training yourself to do that even more. This holds true for both positive -and- negative things. I spend a lot of time behind my computer, probably too much (although how do you determine that?), which is why I try to use applications that force me to work in a certain way I would like to work instead of how I actually work.
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It is good practice to make sure that all data, not just that of OmniFocus, has a regular back up.Note to self: still need to set up an offsite backup solution in addition to TimeCapsule and Dropbox.
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Toggle parallel to sequential by clicking the icon in the group heading “DayCare”.Apparently no keyboard shortcut is available for this.
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An excellent article by Merlin Mann of 43Folders suggests writing tasks as if you were delegating them to your future self.Although the blog 43Folders is run by Merlin Mann this particular post seems to be written by Ethan Schoonover, coincidentally the head of marketing at the Omnipresent Group, makers of OmniFocus. #errata Edit: Looks like my annotation broke the link. #bug. Here's the URL: http://www.43folders.com/2007/09/24/dear-me-get-work ( #idea: turn URLs in notes into tappable links )
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The Art of Learning#bug Last page is shown twice.
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Having an inbox at-the-ready solves this problem. Whenever a thought appears, it can be entered. Only enough needs to be written to jog the memory later when ready to process.Pro tip: when it comes to ideas and inspiration I find it useful to describe the origin of the inspiration as well as I might not understand my note afterwards without it. ( writing down the origin of the inspiration actually helps me get inspired again )
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The iPad is a recent addition to the OmniFocus product suite.Not a big fan of its design. (I'm referring to the app, not the device.)
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Any site may be added. If, for example, you tend to use Facebook a lot, consider creating a Facebook context as a subset of Online where tasks that come to mind can be placed.Note to self: Add contexts for Beta List Admin, Google Analytics and more(?) #bug: The highlight in the reading view doesn't match the actual excerpt.
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Website Administration - Useful for batching tasks that need to be done on my own websites.Shouldn't these kind of things be projects?
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Read/Review - Useful for designating sites that need to be read.Instapaper integration would be nice here. ( I'm really hoping OmniFocus will include an API at some point. )
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Some use them more as responsibilities, motivations, or even priority states. Some find different mindsets such as At Leisure or At Work work well for yet others.What about kinds of mind states such as 'creative', 'organizing', 'distracted'. Doing taxes for example would be part of the 'organizing'-context, a random email the 'distracted'-context and revising a logo design in 'creative'. The added benefit of this approach is that you can batch tasks that have a high tendency to distract you (e.g. when answering an email unread messages in your inbox will distract you from doing your next task, so why not schedule these kind of distraction-risky tasks when you feel distracted anyway?) I haven't tried this yet myself, but will do and report on my experience.
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Changing contexts not only takes time, it can also break attention. Running through a context list becomes, in a way, a directly workable project itself that can be done in one place and in one sitting.For me changing projects breaks attention as well, maybe even more. It depends of course on the kind of projects (all part of an overarching project?) and the kind of contexts (e.g. all on the computer vs. needing to move between physical locations).
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Shift-Command-i.Shortcut for Inspector.
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To further remove tasks, we can set the filter to only display the purple or “Next Action” tasks. A Next Action task is the first available task in a project.Do people actually do this? Will give it a shot myself.
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For more information on The Omni Group’s products the user may visit their website at www.omnigroup.com.The URL isn't clickable anymore.
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innovation factoryAnyone know which companies have these "innovation factories"? Could be a great alternative for entrepreneurs looking to focus on innovation specific part of the job.
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What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?Great statement. I see entrepreneurs so focused on building a great-looking product very fast, but they forget to check if anyone is really interested in it.
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We gave ourselves a hard deadline of six months—180 days—to launch the product and attract our first paying customers. It was a grueling schedule, but we were determined to launch on time.Note to self: Use deadlines.
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In retrospect, one good decision we made was to set clear revenue targets for those early days. In the first month we intended to make $300 in total revenue, and we did—barely.I like the idea of setting these kind of goals. Even though $300 isn't a lot of money it's infinitely more than nothing at all and shows there's at least a potential for revenue. Obviously a monetary goal like this might not work for all startups, but it can be adapted to your own primary metric or KPI (Key Performance Indicator).
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We adopted the view that our job was to find a synthesis between our vision and what customers would accept; it wasn’t to capitulate to what customers thought they wanted or to tell customers what they ought to want.aka product/market-fit
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The irony is that it is often easier to raise money or acquire other resources when you have zero revenue, zero customers, and zero traction than when you have a small amount. Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.So true. Particularly relevant when raising money.
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stealth modeAka 'non-learning-mode'?
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It was enough to prove the concept and show that it was something that people really liked. The actual coupon generation that we were doing was all FileMaker. We would run a script that would e-mail the coupon PDF to people. It got to the point where we’d sell 500 sushi coupons in a day, and we’d send 500 PDFs to people with Apple Mail at the same time. Really until July of the first year it was just a scrambling to grab the tiger by the tail. It was trying to catch up and reasonably piece together a product.1I love these kind of stories. Is there a site that collects those MVP stories?
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As they met potential customers in those settings, they would interview them the way any good market researcher would, but at the end of each interview they would attempt to make a sale. They’d describe the benefits of FotT, name a weekly subscription fee, and invite the customer to sign up.Would they name different weekly subscriptions fees? Nice way to test out different pricing models. On the Internet this approach would be more scalable (A/B testing), but at the same time it's easier for consumers to compare prices. I guess it'd hurt your reputation to be quoting different prices for the same product. How to solve this? Thinking out loud: - Have personalized pricing/products so the prices can not be compared. For example have users fill out their expected usage, etc. - Start with the lowest price and steadily increase. This way you can just say early adopters get a discount. When you've found the ideal price you can give existing customers that paid too much their money back or provided additional value (price segmenting is a good thing anyway) - Any others?
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But along the way, their product development team was always focused on scaling something that was working rather than trying to invent something that might work in the future.Can we do something similar with openmargin with regards to buying/downloading books? For example we create a bunch of book pages with download buttons and when people want to buy they pay us via PayPal and we go buy the book for them at Amazon, Kobo, etc.
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Following the lean manufacturing principle of kanban, or capacity constraint, Grockit changed the product prioritization process. Under the new system, user stories were not considered complete until they led to validated learning. Thus, stories could be cataloged as being in one of four states of development: in the product backlog, actively being built, done (feature complete from a technical point of view), or in the process of being validated. Validated was defined as “knowing whether the story was a good idea to have been done in the first place.” This validation usually would come in the form of a split test showing a change in customer behavior but also might include customer interviews or surveys.Pivotal Tracker can be used for this. Although I don't think you can create a separate column for this new state, you can have multiple states per story. (e.g. 'Accepted')
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Most important, teams working in this system begin to measure their productivity according to validated learning, not in terms of the production of new features.Note to self: Start using Kanban
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I encouraged the team to try a simple split-test. They took one cohort of customers and required that they register immediately, based on nothing more than Grockit’s marketing materials.When he says split test does he mean he divided up the cohort in two? Or did he compare the current cohort (e.g. May) to the previous one? (e.g. April) Or is 'cohort' referring to not just a specific month, but a specific group of people (e.g. the people that weren't shown the lazy registration feature) P.S. I know the definition of cohort, but am interested to find out how it was used here.
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Every day their system automatically generated a document containing the latest data for every single one of their split-test experiments and other leap-of-faith metrics. This document was mailed to every employee of the company: they all always had a fresh copy in their e-mail in-boxes. The reports were well laid out and easy to read, with each experiment and its results explained in plain English.Note to self: Use this for project UBX
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making sure each new employee was ready to give them aBug: Sentence just stops
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What you are reading now is the result of my publishing it, of stopping the fluctuation of words and sentences, of not allowing any more changes, of solidifying the content of the entire piece on the date and time listed in the copyright information on the first page.It will be interesting to see if books become as Wikipedia articles, ever evolving drafts that are never finished, but published upon inception. You could even argue articles are created as soon as another one links to it, without the article containing any contents.
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You can only choose to delete, and/or publish again.Google+ actually allows one to edit his/her message. This can be problematic in some cases where a user edits his/her message after it has received comments from others.
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That is all you need for the insight meditation practice because everything in your experience lives only for one moment. When you focus this concentrated state of mind on the changes taking place in your mind and body, you will notice that your breath is the physical part and the feeling of breath, consciousness of the feeling, and the consciousness of the sign are the mental parts.0.
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You may have various types of sensations, other than the feeling of breathing, taking place in your body.0.
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As your mindfulness develops, your resentment for the change, your dislike for the unpleasant experiences, your greed for the pleasant experiences, and the notion of selfhood will be replaced by the deeper awareness of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness.0.
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.:)
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Maharishi Mahesh YogiDeveloped the Transcendental Meditation technique.
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INTRODUCTIONThere's an audio book as well narrated by Lynch himself. Highly recommended. He's got a great voice. Only reason I'm re-reading it instead of re-listening is so I can annotate his work.
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“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” —KARL MARXHaha. Classic.
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I had finally figured out how to give my customers what they wanted.In Lean Startup these are called pivots. Check out the book if you're interested in finding out what to build. (e.g. What customers want, not what you think they want.)
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Announce your offer to the worldIf it's an Internet startup consider posting on Beta List ( http://betali.st )
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Ensure you have a way to get paid (get a free PayPal account to start).Wufoo.com is very helpful as well.
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Take care in the photos you upload, the messages you write on other people’s walls, and the sites you link to.How do you stay authentic when you filter your output to the world? Isn't getting an unfiltered(!) look into people's lives part of the beauty of the social web? What value would Twitter have if all the tweets were cautiously examined to match a person's brand before it was to be published? Doesn't social media become a drag when I have to keep making sure it fits my "image"? Doesn't an unfiltered profile say more about me than a constructed one?
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.If you haven't seen this video yet go watch it out. It's awesome. Especially the one narrated by Jobs himself.
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He was such a perfectionist that he had trouble buying furniture.I kinda have the same problem, but my apartment was pre-decorated so I left everything as is. (can't throw everything out as they are not my property).
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“One time we set off an explosive under the chair of our teacher, Mrs. Thurman. We gave her a nervous twitch.”What the heck? Actually, these things sound exactly something Bart Simpson would do now that I think about it. Does this mean we can expect Bart to grow into one of the most important inventors of the 21st century?
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“When they resisted, I told them I would just quit going to school if I had to go back to Crittenden. So they researched where the best schools were and scraped together every dime and bought a house for $21,000 in a nicer district.”Talk about willpower. I guess when you're a kid and have figured out your parents will do anything for you it's quite easy to (ab)use this. Luckily, for parents, most kids only seem to have a limited understanding of this (I think), but if they fully grasp it they will have their way. I figured this out myself pretty early on as well hehe.
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Zen Mind, Beginner’s MindCan't wait to read, annotate and disuss this book as well.
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Andy Warhol created The Rolling Stones’ emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the Sticky Fingers album.0. ;)
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The band Steely Dan got its name from a sexual0.
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Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.0.
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Jim Morrison of The Doors was the first rock star to be arrested onstage.0.
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Expect to garner a premium for your business if you can demonstrate a loyal group of customers who have made an investment in your platform.Also known as a vendor lock-in.
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IntroductionReading 'Getting Things Done for Hackers'
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Marc Köhlbrugge
The Netherlands
Former-idea guy turned entrepreneur that actually gets things done. *openmargin is one of those things.
http://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge
