2005

You turn your house into a bank. Act it out. Take the money and run. And then you call up and brag.

10 steps for boosting your creativity

If you’re stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You’d be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.

Stephen Covey’s mission builder.

Google Movies.

Google India Zeitgeist.

The Google-like blogger template had me for a while, when I was browsing Shamit’s page.

It’s incredible what RFID and GPS are being used to track:

• cars,
• trucks,
• drug bottles,
• passports,
• driver’s licenses,
• ID cards,
• loyalty cards,
• luggage,
• rifles,
• casino chips,
• shopping carts,
• soda cans,
• newspapers,
• razor blades,
• clothing,
• books,
• tyres, etc.

What’s even more interesting (scary?) is when it’s used to track

• kids,
• students,
• teens,
• girlfriends,
• employees,
• patients and
• criminals.

Marc Eisenstadt has analysed 15 years of email.

… it is trivially easy to get to 2.5 hours per workday assuming a fairly ruthless, ‘one-touch’, knee-jerk email interaction regime. And worse if you deviate from the regime.

Then there are other sources of workflow: blogs, aggregator summaries, phone calls (rare, but I still allow one or two), cell-phone, text message, instant messaging (my buddy list is very large, and most of them are work-related).

Interesting that Knuth opted out of email in 1990.