Category: Networking
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How our charity food offs evolved from raising $950 to over $100,000
TL;DR recap (thanks to 647 Media): Software evolves. Instead of developing the perfect piece of software, you release it, and then start iterating and improving based on feedback and issues you run into. It’s how my charity food offs have evolved: The first chocolate chip cookie off was 30 months ago amongst…
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Beware someone’s view from the mountaintop
I’m an enormous fan of observing how successful people conduct themselves; there’s so much to learn from the patterns they display. With that said, there is one downside: the rules are different for those who have achieved success. Not only that, those people are often entirely oblivious to the reality that the rules have changed.…
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Don’t be lazy
Being slightly lazy and causing more work for someone else is a recipe for frustration. If you’re going to do something, do it right. And don’t half-ass it – do it all the way. Make my life easy A while ago I had someone email me and ask me a simple question. I usually don’t…
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Giving generously: how Principles went from PDF to Book
Ray Dalio is a particular man. He founded Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, which manages over $150 billion. As of right now, Ray is worth more than $15 billion, and also the author of Principles, the NYTimes best seller. But this story isn’t about Ray – it’s about how Principles became a book in…
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#cookielife – how I convinced 200+ people to send me cookies and raised over $400,000 for charity
The ad-hoc #cookielife, something that spawned out of friendly banter over on Facebook, resulted in over 200 people sending me cookies via the mail and also spawned my charity food offs, which raised over $50,000 for charity in 2017, then over $100,000 in 2018, and then finally, over $200,000 from the last ever Cookie Off.…