[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. And I don’t think that’s outrageously long compared to most people, I really don’t. Was it worth it? I don’t know, is being alive worth it? It’s sometimes […]
[Please download the PDF version here, Thanks] THE HUGHTRAIN: “THE MARKET FOR SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN IS INFINITE.” [First published June, 2004. Last updated: December, 2008] We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else is secondary. We humans want to believe in our own species. And […]
[Babson President Len Schlesinger making the intro…] Last Saturday my business parter, Jason Korman and I gave a wee Q&A talk up at Babson College entitled, “How To Make The Internet Squeal Like A Pig”, as part of their tenth annual Babson Enterprise Forum. Below are the rough notes/transcription, with Jason asking the questions and me […]
[One of the Dewars drawings I did while attending TED Global etc.] [Today’s guest post is by Jason Korman, my business partner since 2005, and CEO of gapingvoid] “The Market For a Scotch to believe in is Infinite” There are millions of cases at stake for the guys who get the messaging right. We’ve had […]
[First published in 2005. I thought it could use another airing etc.] The other day somebody asked me to explain why corporate blogging works. Sure, we know it’s the hot new thing and people are paying attention to it (including big media)…but why?Why does it work? Seriously.So I drew the diagram above. 1. In Cluetrain parlance, we say […]
[First published in 2005. I thought it could use another airing etc.] The other day somebody asked me to explain why corporate blogging works. Sure, we know it’s the hot new thing and people are paying attention to it (including big media)…but why? Why does it work? Seriously.So I drew the diagram above. 1. In Cluetrain parlance, we […]
[The Short Tail] [Company Hierarchy] [Welcome To…] [I Don’t Have Friends.] [I Choose This Life.] [Mistakenly.] [C.F.A.] [Vanished.] Like I said on my last blog post, after the great success of the “Portfolio Number One” launch, we’ve decided to do another one i.e. Portfolio Number Two. [“Portfolio Number One”.] And like last time, all images […]
[Me signing copies of “Ignore Everybody” earlier this week. 25 boxes, 40 books in each…] With my upcoming book launch less than three weeks away, we decided to published prints from some of the cartoons found in the book. The book has eighty-odd cartoons in it, I’ve made a shortlist of fourteen [See Below], from […]
My friend, Shel Israel is doing some consulting work for the large German ERP software firm, SAP. To aid the cause I answered ten questions about social media that he e-mailed to me. Here they are below: 1. You’ve been around the social media scene for a long time. How has it emerged from your […]
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