New Balance is awesome

January 31, 2011

I have been buying sneakers and boots from New Balance for a few years. I love the shoes. They fit me well. And I love the customer service. I buy from a New Balance company website. They used to be nbwebexpress.com but are now www.shopnewbalance.com. I’ve written about this retailer in the past. http://adamschorr.com/2009/10/22/kudos-to-the-folks-at-nb-web-express/ http://adamschorr.com/2009/11/23/more-kudos-to-nb-web-express/ These […]

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On impermanence

January 20, 2011

Ideas and concepts are permanent. Nothing else is. We are all going to die. Hopefully after a long happy healthy life. But we are all going to die. It’s just a question of when. Life is impermanent. Money is impermanent. Relationships are impermanent. Perhaps the trick is just to accept this and stop trying to […]

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On happiness and need

January 18, 2011

Perhaps one of the hardest things for a person to accept is that he or she cannot control the universe. I know we all understand this intellectually, but emotionally it is very difficult to accept. We plan, we act and we experience the effect of those actions on our lives in a way that suggests […]

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Play your note

January 18, 2011

The world is a strange symphony. Though there be billions of instruments, it sounds strange if one of them doesn’t play. You are here. Play your note. It might be off key. But without it, the world doesn’t work.

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Jump in

January 17, 2011

Life is scary. Some of our fears are overblown by a psyche run amok. But others legitimately reflect the state of affairs in the world. Life’s question is not about whether there is danger. The question is how to deal with it. In our quest to avoid being trapped by that which we fear, I […]

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Two types of inspiration

January 3, 2011

It seems to me that there are two ways to inspire: by changing minds and by changing facts. Inspiration by Changing Minds This is about getting people to think differently. One approach is to frame the situation differently. Attempts to change the lexicon fall into this camp. Our business isn’t in deep shit, we have […]

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DMV and free marketing

December 30, 2010

I went to the DMV yesterday to renew my driver’s license. It didn’t take that long. The process worked pretty well actually. But one of the people I interacted with was the typical surly bureaucrat straight out of central casting. I really wonder why people show up to work like that. Smiling is free. And […]

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Cab driver marketing

December 15, 2010

I was lazy this morning and took a taxi to work. It cost me a bit extra but it was worth the lesson. I paid the driver and left a pretty good tip. Not extravagant but good. And as I was getting out of the car, the driver thanked me. It got me thinking. The […]

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What do you design around?

December 5, 2010

Your work isn’t going to be perfect. There are too many constituencies and too many constraints. So what do you take as given and what do you think can be changed? If you design consumer products, you will face many tradeoffs. People may like or need their products to be a certain shape or size. […]

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Is there a better model?

December 4, 2010

How do you think about your company? Is it an engine of growth or profit? Engines are mechanical contrivances that have parts designed to work in concert with each other to produce motion. What are the implications of such a model for how your company would organize itself? How would such a company behave? Is […]

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