Bowen On Matt Bonner:
Pointer From TrueHoop:
Despite making $2.978 million this year and $3.256 next year, Bonner remains frugal. Former Spurs guard Brent Barry, who is now with the Houston Rockets, remembers a time in Sacramento when Bonner was getting a snack at his favorite spot: Subway.
“Matt had a coupon for half off a sandwich, which [...]
Willie Brown, Asomugha’s position coach who is among the greatest defensive backs to ever play pro football, credits Asomugha’s work ethic for his development over the last five seasons.
“He is dedicated, and he’s dedicated to be great. I tell all the defensive backs, they should have Nnamdi’s work habits. He will do anything you ask, [...]
from Del Harris ht to Eric Musselman:
It’s hard to find a job in this life that is always interesting and exciting over a 50-year period. In the end, the value of anyone’s job probably is determined by relationships that are formed more than the wins and the money. Because as we have found out, the [...]
Excellent Advice from Malcolm Gladwell
Here are his 5 Steps to Success:
1. Find meaning and inspiration in your work.
2. Work hard.
3. Discover the relationship between effort and reward.
4. Seek out complex work to avoid boredom and repetition.
5. Be autonomous and control your own destiny as much as possible.
Guerrilla Billionaire™ : Billionaire Lessons from Malcolm Gladwell.
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A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity [...]
from Prof Dani Rodrik.
So what will the post-mortem on Wall Street show? That it was a case of suicide? Murder? Accidental death? Or was it a rare instance of generalized organ failure? We will likely never know.
The regulations and precautions that lawmakers will enact to prevent its recurrence will therefore necessarily remain blunt and of [...]
I’ve personally resisted credit cards because my family has had a history of thinking of credit cards as cash. I almost got one last week but got cold feet when I realized that the only reason I’ve been able to save around 20 percent of my pay is that I can’t buy stuff online. I [...]
Great advise from Tim O’Reilly
We don’t know yet how problems in the overall economy will affect our business. But what we can do now are the things we ought to be doing anyway:
* Work on stuff that matters: Assuming that the world does go to hell in a handbasket, what would we still want to [...]
I am going to do this! Only with Extraordinary Effort
With that forewarning, here’s a bootstrapper’s/marketer’s/entrepreneur’s/fast-rising executive’s effort diet. Go through the list and decide whether or not it’s worth it. Or make up your own diet. Effort is a choice, at least make it on purpose:
1. Delete 120 minutes a day of ’spare time’ from [...]
These words hit home. Because I would be lying if i didn’t admit to myself that I was trying very hard at life, but It would also be very true that what i am exerting is no Extraordinary Effort! Must try better than my best! May not or may never succeed, but definitely will die [...]
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