the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
More content will be created today than existed in entirety before 2003.
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the windscurrents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather
A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2. 0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.
That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?