Great post from Sarah @sillygrrl about leaving the corporate world. How I Made The Escape http://t.co/ukaReVXC

Paul Ford on Facebook. http://t.co/5siA2woC Let's be real, will tweet Paul Ford on anything.

my highlights from The Lean Startup by Eric Ries http://t.co/xVecX9IE

So persuading a consultant to put together PPTs at the start of projects is a powerful tool to ensure we have a clear idea of where we’re going, and importantly, the client is on board.

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012

Where is this topic going? Just a life tip for everybody listening, if you compare yourself to other people and think you’re not successful unless you’re beating them by some metric you will generally be less happy than you are if you’re comparing yourself against either where you were previously or what your goals are.

Success, for me, is either beating where I was last year or beating where I thought I was going to be this year. That generates happy points for me, whereas I never really cared about comparing with other folks. I think folks like the friend of mine who success is partly defined as being seen as successful, that kind of screws up your priorities a little bit, although I’m not totally immune to that myself.

Pricing for SaaS. Friend of Patio recommends.

No matter what is going on though, I’m rarely fazed, and that’s because I have my set focus in life. My focus right now is a financial one geared towards my family. So, whenever any drama does come up in my life, I simply ask: “How does this affect [my focus]?”

It usually doesn’t and I just continue with my day as normal. This question helps to keep me on track and not get sucked into the never-ending drama that surrounds my life and I’m sure it will help you too.

Consciously make an effort to not judge or mentally critique anyone or anything, and you’ll start caring so much less about what people think of you.

If managers or bosses know this, then they should be acutely aware of the impact they have when they fail to recognize the importance to workers of making progress on meaningful work, criticize, take credit for their employees’ work, pass on negative information from on top without filtering and don’t listen when employees try to express grievances.

Rands proposes buying a blog and generating content instead of spending $ on buying links

If you knew your life were much shorter you would travel to those places you always wanted to see. If you knew your life were to be much longer you would have more time to travel; again you would travel more. So, are you trying to tell me that your expected lifespan is just at that length where you shouldn’t travel more? I don’t buy it.

By the way, the best way to understand a serial traveler or expat is to understand what they’re escaping from back home. Oppressive parents? Unsuccessful social life? Failure? Racism? Unbearable boredom? Escapism is common to all. Then again, perhaps we’re all trying to escape from something…

When you’re in a place where you don’t know anyone and where you’re not expected to know anyone, it’s easier to enjoy your own solitude. If you don’t want to do anything on the weekends, you don’t have to — you aren’t getting many incoming calls or text messages. If you don’t have anyone to hang out with on the weekends when you do want to, well, that’s okay, because after all, you are a million miles away from your home base.

Those who marry “till death do us part” end up, on average, four times richer than those who never marry. This is partly because marriage provides economies of scale—two can live more cheaply than one—and because the kind of people who make more money—those who work hard, plan for the future and have good interpersonal skills—are more likely to marry and stay married. But it is also because marriage affects the way people behave.

Dweck found that children’s performance worsens if they always hear how smart they are. Kids who get too much praise are less likely to take risks, are highly sensitive to failure and are more likely to give up when faced with a challenge.

Americans with a college degree face a substantially smaller risk of being and staying unemployed than those without diplomas. A college degree returns 15.2 percent a year, more than double the return to stock market investments since the 1950s, and five times more than the return to bonds, gold, or government bonds, according to a Brookings Institution study.

Extensive list of blogging tools. Some gems. Lots of crap.

Determine your primary focus and value-add; then outsource, hire for or simplify/remove everything you don’t do well.

When a blow to the head creates a savant, and what that says about genius: http://t.co/kwFbyrYd

Too much self-examination leads to self-destruction

Comprehensive guide to SEO for seasonal/temporal keywords: http://t.co/QkfprJxt from @jane_copland

You can send one piece of mail about choice to one household, and to their neighbors you can send a piece of mail about the environment.”

You may not know these preferences of yours yet, even if you assume you’ve known for thirty years.

y experience has been that press releases have rapidly diminishing returns on syndication only, and the only way to see ROI is to generate actual, real coverage.

Taming the sound of the city: dealing with noise pollution http://t.co/suTcyQDK

In a chilling miscarriage of justice, Texas executed an innocent man for a murder he did not commit http://t.co/USdammIN. #LongReads

For example, telling me you increased sales by 300% isn’t that helpful. Telling me how you learned to handle customer objections around price could prove to be very useful.

I think @lastgreatthing is an awesome concept--one person, one thing, one day, no archive. Happy to be today's person: http://t.co/tL5LmoCR

Another example of why I can't get enough of @mattalexand's writing: Self-Renewal http://t.co/yRArxFWu

How to Create a Split Test that Mathematically Gets More Email Subscribers http://t.co/iRLbmEhx via @blogtyrant

Fascinating read. RT @NiemanLab: Josh Marshall on why TPM is no longer just a website http://t.co/adcoacZZ

“I just make it a little different each time I tell it so's I don't go crazy.” - Donna Summer on giving interviews http://t.co/sLhunFSV

“Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art or a politics.” Romney & authenticity: http://t.co/4gZaagQd

"If you can picture a party that's secretly a corporate focus group, you've got a pretty good idea of what Facebook is" http://t.co/ylEUu9ES

"Awareness, not focus" RT @the99percent: Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness: http://t.co/BgRBXqTQ #99interview

Going for seed funding? Be prepared to answer these questions http://t.co/El4DC1XT

To help me figure out which features to use, I created a list of the top features and ordered them by importance. Then, I removed core features or the ones that every segment would expect a product like mine to have.

The dudes at @Gizmodo don't think there's sexism in technology. Not surprising. http://t.co/9oRZI2it

"mutual admiration societies for people who think mere thinking—about anything at all, really!—oughtta get a gold star" http://t.co/fboyNbm2

Blogging is an attitude http://t.co/1Lb4NDXM

"It’s more a winter is coming view of the startup world, especially for the consumer internet on which Hartz focuses." http://t.co/lhP51sKu

@robinsloan In 2004, Neal Stephenson posited that money is a constant, it's already as complex as it'll get, #7 here: http://t.co/Do1aWOPJ

This guy thinks the jig is up, too: http://t.co/yFDOcQD9 But he's way more pessimistic about the valley than I am.

The future of hiring isn't interviews, resumes or even your network: http://t.co/CrFz8ta3 It's projects.

You're good, @peretti. http://t.co/UYX3VtjB but I think the evidence (so far, obvi) runs against FB ads being superior.

Post: At Least Four Inches http://t.co/wGIeXwnH

Posts like this are why I send my subscription check every year RT @kottke: FB's current valuation in Whoppers http://t.co/ER1G32zu

Is AirBnB The biggest black-hat success ever? http://j.mp/iKfGQc

A wonderful pocket history of the vibrator http://t.co/ddts3U34 in that piece by @worldwebeyes

"[A] lot of startups are getting funded for really stupid shit. Some of them will probably make a lot of money." http://t.co/5tHbO3ek

Great run down of Eugene restaurants and food choices. Improvements: wifi, vegan.

an economist writes about fine dining. Six Rules for Dining Out - Magazine - The Atlantic http://t.co/Ul2GLKDi

People enjoy talking about themselves. Get the other party talking about themselves and opening up.

Some thoughts on advertising, free content, and asking readers to pay you: http://t.co/zucbsX1e