“Two years from now, spam will be solved”

Bill Gates – January 24, 2004

I was just reading up on Wired’s 2006 Tech Foot-in-mouth awards. It just really proves tech companies are full of shit (among other things).

This guy appears to have very good reason to sell his car. You might need to have a few shots of bourbon to completely understand what he’s saying but when you do – you’ll definately feel his pain.

Seth has it right when he says:

When you make something that works a little better, you're playing the same game, just keeping up with the status quo. When you make something different, on the other hand, you're trying to change the game.

Instead of creating something just that little bit better, why not try an innovate? Why not do something no one else is doing? It will be a lot more fulfilling for yourself and your business.

I am signed up to a Scott Berkun’s newsletter which is rarely too exilherating. It focuses mainly on project management and other not so exciting things. His latest essay however is something I think we can all understand and relate back to our lives (I know I have).

This article explains about how we divide our attention and what we focus it on. It makes you stop and think how you really should be spending your minutes of the day.

“Whenever someone is lost in waves of e-mail and information, they’re often oblivious to the deepest tragedy of their time. It’s not the stress of dealing with so many requests and obligations (as real and challenging as that stress might be). It’s that somewhere in the wash of interactions and split attentions is the missed possibility they’re looking for: Meaning. Depth of experience. Connection. To quote Pirsig, “The truth knocks on the door and we say, “Go away. I’m looking for the truth�?. In the race to clean out inboxes and scratch items off the to-do list, we miss chances to find the thing we’ve created the inbox and to-do list for. Like an American tourist in Europe racing from site to site with barely a moment to take a picture or talk to someone not on their tour bus, we’re trapped in a quantity mentality, despite our quality based desires.”

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