No? Well, some people do. A few years back, there was a great operating system called BeOS that began to make waves in the multimedia set. A small number of geeks just loved it. And a project to recreate the defunct operating system is getting close to releasing a fully functional, free version of BeOS.
Bruce Lee, Ballroom and Win-Win Conflict Resolution
09:52pm MST, 6 Mar 2007
I studied martial arts for years. Often I've had people make comments to me about how fighting and (partner) dance are "so different" because one is about conflict and the other about harmony. But really it's all the same. The difference is that harmony is much more challenging in martial arts.
A Brief History of Victorian Art
02:46pm MST, 5 Feb 2007
We recently receiving feedback on our Swing Dynamite promotional material from someone who complained that the work "sucks" was sexually explicit. This is "sucks" as in "I should take classes because my dancing sucks." I'm sure that most of the millions of six-year-olds who use this term do not mean it in a sexual way. It's a fascinating example of how vulgarity is in the eye of the beholder, and the more sexually-minded you are, the more obscene things seem to you. This all reminds me of the history of Victorian art.
Four Reasons You Might Suck At Something
07:58am MST, 26 Jan 2007
As a teacher, there's one major question I keep trying to answer: why some people succeed so readily, and others have so much trouble, at improving the same skill. I think we can break it down into four reasons.
Happiness Makes You Smarter!
02:54pm MST, 21 Dec 2006
It's the essence of religious ecstacy and enlightenment. Chassidic Jews know it, Tibetan Buddhists know it,
and Anthony Robbins won't shut up about it, but the results are in: happy people are smarter and generally
more successful. And furthermore,
being around negative, angry people makes you less happy and possibly even less intelligent! A fabulous article by Kathy Sierra says that angry people
may be bad for your brain in more ways than one.
Become Your Own Competitor
03:48pm MST, 18 Dec 2006
I've believed for a while in the strategy of becoming your own competitor. Think, "if I wanted to create a new brand to compete with my company's brand, what would I do?" And then do it.
May Our Competitors Thrive
06:32pm MST, 12 Dec 2006
Finally, an article arguing what I've believed for years: when your competitors attract more business, your market share may or may not shrink, but the overall size of the market increases. This is by Tom Peters: let your competitors thrive.
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