February 2012
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Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely,... →
But here’s where you start asking a very pertinent question: JESSE, HOW DID YOU DO IT?
I achieved all of this through something I like to call my 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success.
Whether you want to build a show like mine, build your own media empire, or simply re-grow up to 50% of the hair you’ve lost due to male pattern baldness (especially at the...
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A thermostat. Just a thermostat.
From the Nest blog:
Complexity is easy. It’s fun to come up with new ideas and it feels great to say yes to everything, to avoid making trade-offs.
It’s simplicity that’s hard. To make a great product, you have to define its core – a single challenge – and painfully, painstakingly eliminate creative features to stay true to the product and its purpose.
Via Jason Fried.
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Insanely Simple
A new book coming April 26th from Ken Segall:
You can see Simplicity in everything Apple does: the way it organizes, innovates and communicates. In fact, one could argue that it was Steve’s unrelenting passion for Simplicity that helped Apple rise from near-death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011.
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To Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. But it was also a...
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Topics
My good friend Cam Todd has started a new podcast, called Topics. The premise is simple: each episode, Cam speaks with a different guest about a different topic. Cam is a great conversationalist and the episodes so far have been a lot of fun.
I had the distinct privilege of being a guest on the third episode. The topic for the episode is something near and dear to my heart: Back to the Future.
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