Good Luck ? or I’m so smart?
After reading Fooled by Randomness – The Hidden Role of Chance in Markets and life, I was see the “I’m so smart… ” everywhere attributed to what is clearly chance.
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Recent reading – Yellow Blue Tibia – Aliens
Some recent reading – Yellow Blue Tibia — Part a droll comedy parodying the fall of Soviet communism, part an intellectual inquiry into the idea of multiple quantum realities and part an attempt to...
Fooled by Randomness
About halfway through a great book, Fooled by Randomness – The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He makes the interesting point that if your success is...
Selling Information Products – Part II Payment Processors & Downloads
1. Payment processors After trying and switching processors for the last 5 years or so, I think paypal is the best service. Fees are low, especially if you have $5000+ per month, and they...
Selling Information Products – Part I
After selling information products online since 1997, I decided to write down some random thoughts and a few things I have learned. 1. Test the Price and Listen to what your Customers say. Always...
What to do with your Blog
If you have been blogging for a few years, or even 4 or 5, then you have accumulated a huge amount of material on your subject matter. And presumably, covering every possible facet and...
The 10,000 hour rule
Want to be really really good? Like Bob Dylan, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet etc.? You have to do what you are doing for 10,000 hours. The full article is here , recently populized by...
Multivariate Testing
Not testing? Time to get on it! Everything is in full swing and you are definitely late for the party. According to a new report by Forrester Research, only 26% of online marketers are...
The big boys finally get it!
Interesting article from Advertising Age on Reuters and AP and others outsourcing content creation and some very intersting discussion from both sides of the issue. More Discussion here