February 2010
18 posts
Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet
10 Ways to Build Resilience:
1. Make connections.
2. Help yourself by helping others.
3. Maintain a daily routine.
4. Take care of yourself.
5. Give yourself a “news” break.
6. Have a plan.
7. Prepare a security kit
8. Nurture a positive view of yourself.
9. Keep things in perspective.
10. Maintain a hopeful outlook.
are almost certainly not the most important ones.
We pay attention to the loud and the urgent. This can lead us to ignore the important and achievable paths open to us—because we’re so busy defending against the overwhelmingly dangerous (but unlikely) outcomes instead.
Seth Godin
Yesterday, PayPal announced a strategic partnership with Facebook, giving users of the service another payment method for ads, as well as their Facebook Credits, a site-specific virtual currency. The partnership will help small international businesses profit from ads, while the actual benefit to users lies in the implementation of PayPal Credits, which are being tested in a small number of apps on Facebook, as a virtual method of payment.
via PSFK
Some consumers are short-sighted, greedy and selfish.
Extend yourself a little and they’ll want a lot.
Offer a free drink in the restaurant one night and they’re angry that it’s not there the next.
The nuts in first class weren’t warm!
The challenge of winning more than your fair share of the market is that the best available strategy—providing remarkable service and an honest human connection—will be abused by a few people you work with.
You have three choices: put up with the whiners, write off everyone, or, deliberately exclude the ungrateful curs.
Firing the customers you can’t possibly please gives you the bandwidth and resources to coddle the ones that truly deserve your attention and repay you with referrals, applause and loyalty.
by Seth Godin
Check out the Museum of Modern Celebrity Tweets. Every Tuesday, Odessa Begay creates a visual representation of a celebrity’s 140-character message, unless, in his words, “my hands fall off and my computer explodes”
Three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune:
Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell - a reason to consider a decision carefully.
Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. For example, one person described how he thought of a colour before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that colour. This kind of behaviour boosts the likelihood of chance opportunities by introducing variety.
Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune. They imagine how things could have been worse. In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.
This is google slope view for the coming Olympics. Very cool.
