Make sure to Zag

April 21st, 2008 1 Comment Noah

Everyone’s doing X. You are all going right. I read how an owner of a restaurant threw a knife into the ceiling, why? So the patrons would have something to talk about. So many times we fall back on to what is safe or what will work.
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I don’t think people enjoy, look forward [...]

The Mis-Education

April 7th, 2008 18 Comments Noah

In Argentina I talked with Kareem about how jacked the education system is. My buddy Jared gave me a life-changing book called Teaching as a Subversive Activity that reflects the problem of schools and great ways to improve them.

My question for readers is what is the real education of what you wish you would have [...]

The Beer Diet

April 4th, 2008 17 Comments Noah

I love optimizing things and one of my new favorite things is my body. Yay! Sexy Noah time. Anyways, I wanted to highlight beer optimization or “de” optimizing it. For some reason people don’t realize the big fat ugly things they can cut in business / life to make things better but neglect for some [...]

Hungry? Why change?

March 31st, 2008 9 Comments Noah

I was at a super market last night looking at the candy rack near the checkout stand. I looked at a Snicker’s and started realizing it is always the same bar. Nothing has changed. We always talk about making things better, improving, changing and how things get stale. Google.com hasn’t changed their homepage very much [...]

Walls: For everyone else…

March 18th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

If you haven’t heard about dying professor Randy Pausch you are not living. He said a great line:

“Walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things”
Get inspired by his video.

What are you doing here?

July 3rd, 2007 16 Comments Noah

Stop reading and get back to work. I realized yesterday while reading blogs and wasting a bit of time, what is really contributing to my bottom line.

Bottom line: Evaluate the things you spend time on during your day and where/what you really get value out of.
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