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Techies, Passion, and Knowing What You Want

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I enjoyed reading Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness. It’s an informative and entertaining look at how Tony built Zappos.com and sold it to Amazon for an amazing 1.2 Billion Dollars. After reading through the book, I tried to analyze what it … Continue reading →

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Your Inner Voice

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I like to periodically read the Commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in June 2005. He gave the address not long after learning that he had pancreatic cancer and that the initial prognosis was just a few months … Continue reading →

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Make Money, But Give Freely of Yourself, Too

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Bruce Keener

It’s great when you can make money doing what you love. Not everyone gets to do that, of course. But, regardless of which group you fit in, you should still have an outlet (or more than one) in which you … Continue reading →

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Smart Advice for Business and Life: Review of Rework

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I am a huge fan of 37signals: its Basecamp product (haven’t tried the other products), its blog, and its founders. So, I bought Rework, the founders’ latest book, as soon as it became available (back in March). I read through … Continue reading →

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Tips and Insights from Twitter (5-18-2010)

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Bruce Keener

While scouring some Tweets that I had saved as favorites, I thought these would be of interest to many of you: keener This works well: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/ Identified a Facebook privacy setting that I hadn’t fixed to be most secure. CoryBooker … Continue reading →

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Contributing versus Achieving

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Management guru Jim Collins, in recollecting a day he spent with the legendary Peter Drucker years ago, said that Drucker told him The critical question is not “What can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?” When we think about … Continue reading →

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Wisely Choosing Your Beliefs

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I am in the midst of reading one of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read: Ellen Langer’s Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. In example after example, Professor Langer shows how our beliefs can impact our health. … Continue reading →

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Making Excuses versus Making Way

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Bruce Keener

All too often I hear I’m too old to do that … I can’t take that kind of chance … Yes, but that takes genius, and I’m no genius … Sometimes I hear words like these coming from my own … Continue reading →

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Going Out on a High Note

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Bruce Keener

As a retiree, I have become particularly interested in how well Brett Favre and Kurt Warner do this year. I was fortunate to retire on a relative high note, and I’d love to see these gentlemen be as fortunate, too. … Continue reading →

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Even More Questions to Help You Mold Your Future

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Bruce Keener

This is a follow-on to my previous article that provided a list of questions to help you conduct a GTD 50,000 foot review. In this post, I provide links to other articles that have good questions for you to answer … Continue reading →

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