Adam Bullied wrote a really good article about not losing motivation in the face of challenges. His closing quote spun us off on a philosophical tangent about being “good enough.”
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Outlook Optimization With Xobni
Found a potentially extremely cool plugin for Outlook called Xobni, that would make Outlook a much more powerful tool.
Book Reviews / Reviews / Slightly off-topic
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Beyond Booked Solid: Solid Advice
Michael Port’s new book just came out. If you’re trying to redefine or improve how you focus professionally, it would be a good read. If you run your own company, or want to, it is a great read. Michael has good advice, good reasoning for his advice, and he writes […]
Product Management / Slightly off-topic
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Michael Arrington’s Inbox is Fat!
Michael Arrington has 2400+ unread emails in his inbox. And he needs someone to fix it. If you are the person with the idea to save us all, send me an email and tell me all about it. Actually, strike that. Drop by my house and tell me all about […]
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Product Management Haiku For Us Too!
We found Steve’s poems first Then we read the Cranky ones First came Pivotal
Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Slightly off-topic
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Gadgets And Goals
What makes the best gadgets great? An understanding of goals and attention to design details. When we take a step back from writing requirements about software, and think about gadgets and goals – the perspective can help us write better requirements and make better prioritization decisions.
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Setting The Price for Your Software
Joel on Software writes a great article about how to set the price for your software to maximize profits.
Joel does a good job of explaining and exploring the economic theories behind pricing and balancing supply and demand. He then dives into market segmentation and how it applies to pricing. Finally, he addresses the marketing elements of pricing and perceived value.
Communication / Presentation / Slightly off-topic
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Brilliant Presentation on Identity 2.0
The material in the presentation is off-topic, but the presentation is so good that you just have to watch it. I found this when researching about openID (mine is http://tynerblain.com/scott.sehlhorst/ – check out myOpenID to set up yours). Consider the open ID thing to be a tangent you might be […]
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Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
For folks who don’t read a lot of blogs – there’s a meme going on right now where people list five things that most people don’t know about them. This spreads virally, like the old email chain letters. After you share your five things, you tag five more people. Read on to see my five things…