As the War on Privacy continues, it is important to note that the enemy here is only privacy; not alone time. Alone time is very much a separate principle. Privacy means hiding what you are doing from other people, alone time is just spending time by yourself. If people know you are by yourself you do not have privacy, but you do have alone time. … read more “Privacy Versus Alone Time”
Eye Injury
Basketball guy stuck his finger in my eye today.
BPN DECLARES WAR ON PRIVACY
Our modern age of ignorance has brought about the most powerful government the world has ever known declaring war on a tactic (terrorism). Privacy is a principle and as such is much more natural to have war declared on it. Throughout history governments and peoples have declared war on the basis of principles such as greed, socialism, religion.… read more “BPN DECLARES WAR ON PRIVACY”
Ban Privacy Now: Powerful New Organization
Today is a grand day… I am officially founding the “Ban Privacy Now!” organization.
As the President, CFO, leading advocate and only member of Ban Privacy Now (BPN) I am proud to announce that our sole purpose will be the outing of child molestors and their nefarious advocates (pro privacy organizations) everywhere and eliminating laws that support privacy online and offline.… read more “Ban Privacy Now: Powerful New Organization”
I Can Say Fuck On the Public Internets!
And the world didn’t explode.
People are nazis when it comes to self-policing their names online. Many people hide all of their activities under various pseudonyms.
Under their own names, they are only willing to do super bland & inane activities like create a LinkedIn profile or write an Amazon review. Many of these same individuals then go to other websites and spew hatred, racism, child porn, troll comments, and many other idiotic activities under hidden pseudonyms like “2Cute4U” and “YourMomisaHo56382932847”.… read more “I Can Say Fuck On the Public Internets!”
Disguising Your Online Identity is Pointless
In this post, I am discussing hiding your blog with a pseudonym… not your illegal downloading activities.
95% of my blogging friends disguise their blogs so people can’t figure out who they are by just looking at the blogs, nor can people Google them and find the blogs. People generally disguise their blogs because they think family & friends will judge them or that their boss will fire them. … read more “Disguising Your Online Identity is Pointless”
Minimum Viable Product
Building a successful business involves iterating through lots of ideas for products and services. Minimum Viable Product is a term that refers to only doing the smallest amount necessary to get something into the marketplace that will tell you if people like the idea or not. Usually this is far smaller than you expect it to be. … read more “Minimum Viable Product”
Joel’s Special Heroes: Rabbit Food
I wonder what rabbit meat tastes like… … read more “Joel’s Special Heroes: Rabbit Food”
How To Test Your Business Idea
So you have come up with the next Google/Facebook/Mint website and you think you are going to make a fortune on it?
Maybe you will, but if you are a wise entrepreneur you will test out your business idea first. Why?
- After four years, 50% of startups have failed
- After ten years, 75% of startups have failed
- Only 1 in a 1000 startups are a home run like Amazon or Microsoft
Testing your business idea before dedicating your nest egg and years of sweat, blood and tears to it is ABSOLUTELY necessary!… read more “How To Test Your Business Idea”
Make More Money on Your Leads
Nick and I were talking today about our home loans website and discussing the fact that 2/3 of the people who use the contact form or call the phone number on it do not have good enough credit scores to get a home loan.
We were losing money on all these people who called in and were quite annoyed that we had to deal with them, when we realized that there is a whole industry of businesspeople out there who would love to talk with exactly the people we didn’t want:
Credit repair companies. … read more “Make More Money on Your Leads”