How To Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek gave this presentation at WordCamp recently. His title: How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself.
[From ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse]
Feedback is Your Most Important Intangible Asset
Any organization or member thereof is challenged with a special flavor of egocentrism. Without feedback, we can only experience the world through our own eyes, ears, and fingertips; feedback is the mirror that enables us to perceive a little bit beyond these constraints. To see our product or service as our market, or a member thereof, sees it.
A few benefits:
- Quality Control.
- Prevention of Groupthink.
- Epistemic Market Research.
- Product Testing.
- Improvement.
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Feedback is your most important intangible asset.
It’s mine too. That in mind, I’d like to ask you a favor.
What do you think of my site so far? Thanks in advance for your input. I sincerely appreciate it! :)
I Wish I Could Disprove Extremist Mathematicians
Sometimes I wish that 1 + 1 = 3 so that I could disprove extremist mathematicians.
Extremism isn’t always “wrong”. Particularly when it comes to knowledge arising from objective criteria.
Careful when your info is subjective. Extremism is a lot harder to justify.
Related Articles:
- Right-Wing Extremism Explored (usapartisan.blogspot.com)
- Westboro Baptist Church: God Hates The UK (xo.typepad.com)
- Colleges told to deter extremism (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Two More DHS ‘Left Wing Extremism’ Reports (littlegreenfootballs.com)
- Experimental Peer Review & Funding: We don’t need people to take risk; we need people to manage it. (travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com)
To Learn From Your Mistakes, You Must Acknowledge Your Mistakes.
To Learn From Your Mistakes, You Must Acknowledge Your Mistakes.
Everyone makes mistakes. There is value in each mistake we make, as long as we learn from them. In the same vein, there is value in each mistake others make — as long as we can learn from them, too. Let’s all help each other learn more, therefore, by remaining as transparent as possible. Exposing our mistakes as they’re made. Constructively addressing the mistakes others are making as they’re made. Imagine how much more learned we’d all be!
What mistakes have you learned from recently?
- Leadership: Accepting Mistakes (LearnThis.ca)
- 5 Things I Learned About Making Mistakes (agingreluctantly.com)
- 7 ways to build strong relationships (ismckenzie.com)
- The Paradox Of Web 2.0 – Part 1: Is Teaching Equal To Learning? (masternewmedia.org)
- What’s Your Blind Spot? (barbarany_9.blogspot.com)
Procrastination Complements Productivity
Since the cost of doing something wrong can be 10x+ the cost of doing something right, a little slower, I believe that procrastination complements productivity.
A quick story from my teenage years. My brother and I were hiking around Point Sal for a few days. We hit a road after hiking over rough terrain and followed it for about a half hour. We were ravenous and exhausted, but had to keep going. We needed to get back home. We could have kept going (or just looked from atop a nearby hill) to find a fantastic local steakhouse and used their payphone to call friends to pick us up. Instead, we traversed cowfieilds on steep, windy hills. We ended up walking for several more hours than we needed, offcourse. We still found our way (and have great memories of the event), but it we quite literally took the hard road when we didn’t need to.
Procrastination Complements Productivity
Imagine you hit a fork in the road while walking, and your destination is 5 miles in one direction. You just don’t know which direction to take. You could take a left or right. You make the wrong choice and end up walking 15 miles instead of 5. Don’t just go when you hit that crossroads. Look around in the grass, you may just find a sign. Look around in the sky, you may find a signal. Wait. You’ll save time. :)
Put Things Off and Stop Caring to Realize Your Dreams (Zenhabits)
How to Watch Television Effectively (Scott H. Young)
How To Stop Procrastinating: 7 Timeless Tips (PositivityBlog.com)
