step on the peel

things i learned in 2005

1. how can you possibly make anyone care if you don't?

2. even if you do, you'll probably only succeed in making someone else care one time out of hundred.

3. the good news is, this is a pretty decent way to weed out the idiots.

4. annoying people can still be useful. this includes customers as well as partners.

5. if you're going to go down in flames, make sure you do it as publicly as possible. and don't forget the marshmallows and hot dogs.

6. everybody's got a sob story. not all of them are well written.

7. sometimes it's the editing that kills a movie.

8. it's not the spinach in your teeth that sinks a pitch. it's the fact that the recipient might think you didn't put it there on purpose. a successful pitch leaves the recipient wanting their own piece of spinach.

9. if you watch the behavior of animals at the zoo, you'll learn a lot about why even the best job is still pretty much a stinking prison for the wild one inside you.

10. sometimes you have to do stuff, then talk about it, then write about it, and not the other way around.

posted by itchycoo parka @ 12:38 AM