Don Quijote didn’t ship

July 3, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Society makes heroes out of entrepreneurs and adventurers that tilt at windmills and succeed. Napster slays the music industry! Twitter comes out of nowhere! The thing about taking on the biggest giants is that most of the time (so often...

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Mentoring, platforms and taking a leap

May 8, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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How much support does someone need (or get, or deserve, you pick) before they ship their art? The fearful lizard brain demands reassurance and coaching and even a push before it is quiet enough to permit us to do the...

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“Powerpoint makes us stupid”–these bullets can kill

April 29, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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The US Army reports that misuse of Powerpoint (in other words, using Powerpoint the way most people use it, the way it was designed to be used) is a huge issue. I first wrote a popular short free ebook about...

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What you can learn from a lousy teacher…

March 26, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending the status quo and demonstrates your failure on...

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You rock

March 16, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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This is deceptive. You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it. No, but you might rock five...

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Naming tool of the week

March 13, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Oleg points us to http://wordoid.com/ It's a conjugator, brainstorming and domain finder, all in one. Nicely done. I've done a few posts on naming to help you get started. Here's an old one too. And while I'm sharing links, here's...

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The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain

February 28, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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The best reason to be a jerk at work is that of course no one will listen to you or support you or embrace your ideas--you're a jerk. The best reason to be a doormat at work is that in...

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Genius is misunderstood as a bolt of lightning

February 28, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. It has nothing to do with winning a Nobel prize in physics or certain levels of schooling. It's about using human insight and...

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