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Every monster has a big shadow

July 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

That’s what makes it a monster. In fact, when you look the monster in the eye, when you calmly and carefully inspect the actual monster, you discover that he’s not so bad after all. It’s just the shadow that’s scary….

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Here comes the paperback Kindle… as promised

July 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

The wifi Kindle, $139. Drop the first digit and you’re on to something. And it only took them six weeks!

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The problem with unlimited

July 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

If you work out on a weight machine that has a limit–where you have to push the bar until it stops–you’re far more likely to to hit that limit than if you had left it to your own initiative to…

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Getting unstuck: solving the perfect problem

July 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

The only problems you have left are the perfect ones. The imperfect ones, the ones with a clearly evident solution, well, if they were important, you’ve solved them already. It’s the perfect problems that keep us stuck. Perfect because they…

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15% changes everything

July 25th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

When a newspaper loses 15% of its readers or 15% of its advertisers, it goes out of business. There are still people who want to read it, still people who want to advertise, but it’s gone. When a technology company…

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