What’s Happening?

by dap on November 1, 2009

jake and me

I bought the domain name danperlman.com several years ago with the idea of writing a personal blog.  That never really happened.  Now this domain is becoming the heir to my web writing. 

Among other online toys and personas, I’ve used Techgolem and had planned to write  a blog about tech startups focusing on marketing as techgolem.com.  That never really happened.  So I’m pointing techgolem.com here, so if you’re one of the 3 – 5 people who landed on that site in a day and wonder how the hell you got here – now you know.

For the last year, I’ve written about technology and tools on enquiringmimes.com (I have an unfortunate weakness for stupid domain names). 

Moving forward, the plan will be to still write enquiringmimes.com.  There I’ll continue to cover the kinds of technology and tools that fascinate me and are supposed to make me more productive.

danperlman.com will cover startups, marketing, some technology and probably a little food and the occasional personal stuff. 

I’m also parking previous techgolem and enquiringmime posts here just because.

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Why people are afraid to buy

by dap on October 19, 2009

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Commander Seth tells us why people are afraid to buy in this society.

“Whatever you sell, there are two big reasons people aren’t buying it:

1. They don’t know about it.

2. They’re afraid of it.”

If you trying to sell and who isn’t?  Now you know what your marketing needs to accomplish.

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Prosaic steps to becoming happier

October 3, 2009

Declaring that I’m a fanboy for Gretchen Rubin and her Happiness Project is no new ground here, but watch this to see Gretchen on the CBS News giving “prosaic” steps you can take to make yourself happier. She mentions:

Get enough sleep
Get some exercise — a 15 minute walk is better than no exercise

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Why when we try to motivate people we don’t

August 24, 2009

Dan Pink makes a case for why extrinsic motivators don’t really work.  In an 18-minute video Pink, a “career strategist”, explains the social science behind why contingent motivators – if you do that, then you get this – only work for small band of problems and especially don’t work if the problem requires creativity.
Pink has [...]

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Android G1, we hardly knew you

August 21, 2009

According to a Twitter post by an Android developer, it seems that the Tmobile G1 android phone, introduced last year, has so little memory space it won’t be able allow any other further full OS updates after getting the recent “cupcake” release.
That would mean if you have a Tmobile G1, except for minor patches, it’s [...]

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Exploding the myth of Linux as the "people's" OS

August 21, 2009

If you’ve always bought into the idea that Linux was written and maintained by geeks and hackers in after-hours ventures — all for other geeks and hackers, think again.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on Computerworld analyzed a report from the Linux Foundation on who writes Linux and found that Linux is written by big companies for big [...]

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Startup Paradox – Get Rich or Die

August 17, 2009

From a Y Combinator dinner talk.  In startups, you get rich if you don’t die. 
What do you have to do to live?
“Whereas if a startup regularly does new deals and releases and either sends us mail or shows up at YC events, they’re probably going to live.”

It’s true, in my career with startups, I’ve [...]

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Apple upgrade to Snow Leopard, to average Mac user, ah hem.

August 17, 2009

Judging by the excellent Crunch Gear review of the forthcoming release of Snow Leopard, the new version of OS/X, this isn’t going to be the kind of release that makes you say “oh wow”.  Sounds like even at the $29 upgrade price, you might wonder what you get for your money.  It’s really is [...]

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Ever been in a Google trance?

August 17, 2009

Seems that the feeling of excitement that you can get from searching and then searching again is wired into our brain.  One researcher called the behavior “seeking”.  It seems “the pictures inside our skulls show that the possibility of a payoff is much more stimulating than actually getting one.” So we just keep Google’ing and [...]

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A little gut has become okay, says NYT

August 17, 2009

Looks like fat is the new thin for guys.  The chiseled abs look is passé.   Blame it on the economy or having a super-president that stays thin, works out, shoots hoops and deals with world problems, making  it too hard for the rest of us to keep up.
Good news for me – I’m in style.
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