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I Only Have 7 Trips Left. On Managing Work / Life Balance, Love & Family

Both Sides of the Table

I put on an out-of-office notice (see below) and received some of the nicest emails and text messages including from my good friend Michael Broukhim who ensures me that he and his brother Danny still vacation with their parents and Mike & Danny are both in their 30s! When I get back I don’t plan to spend 50 hours processing old emails.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. The kind words I receive in comments, Tweets and emails are highly motivational and most appreciated.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. Less than 100 people read that original post 2 years ago.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

Both Sides of the Table

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

You likely are writing your first one of these. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve? Don't stress over format.

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Interview with Al Eisaian, IconApps

socalTECH

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. All of 2009 was figuring out what people want.

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