This has been frequently requested of me ever since my earlier post about ‘The Six Month Conversation’ resonated with so many people. This follow up is about the framework Alexis and I devised with hopes of guiding our life journey together independently and as a couple. I know this post is arriving several years late, after tons of requests, so thanks everybody for your patience!
Two motivations for this Rants & Ramblings post:
I haven’t taken the content marketing aspect of my blog very seriously and have been curious about who actually reads the content.
Have been wanting to see how this site’s analytics capabilities have evolved (note: Squarespace, at the time of this writing).
Let’s see what we find out!
By Device Type: 60% Desktop, 37% Mobile, 2% Tablet, 1% Unknown
By Source: 43% Direct, 32% Google, 12% Facebook, 11% LinkedIn, 3% Others
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tl;dr: The Momenta Lab project started for the purpose of building a Venture Studio company. We underestimated the intensity of research to test our hypotheses. We were successful in coming up with a business model (strategic, financial, legal, operating) which the market has confidence in. We did not have the financial means and adequate clout which were requisite in the model. We were unsuccessful insofar as we did not launch the company. These findings and the model is something I intend to pursue one day.
This is the name of a recent project of mine seeking to establish a Venture Studio. The objective was to create and operate profitable, right-sized technology products.
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Note for any readers: this is written to myself for future reference.
While going through the exercise of year-end cleaning, the process includes checking bookmarks for what will be highly relevant going forward. These are a few I’ve kept throughout 2018, which are now lower priority but which I may like to reference again in the future.
Frameworks and Tools:
This is the fifth instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community. For the number of posts to share, I’ve picked a number that’s significant to me: 111
As always, I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyWf - What is a summary of major events in world history?
https://qr.ae/TUty9X - How do I consume food at a buffet in the most efficient way? I want to maximize my food eating potential.
https://qr.ae/TUty9R - What is the most difficult thing to learn and accept about life?
https://qr.ae/TUty9p - Should I quit my job and follow my passion, or stick to my job and improve my performance…
This is the fourth instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
As always: I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyON - What are some uncommon ways to work smarter instead of harder?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOn - What is the reason, everyone I know, especially men, complain about their married life? Is it really that bad?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOA - What are some of the biggest scams/cons in modern history?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOK - What is the strangest way you found out your significant other was cheating on you?
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This is the third instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
Hmm… I’m now finding out that this bank of bookmarked Quora answers is insane, so I’ll be ramping up the count from 25 per post to 50 per post. Wowza, that would mean 200 Quora answers shared in this December 2018 series!!!
As always: I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyw5 - How good are bad software engineers?
https://qr.ae/TUtywk - What are the biggest myths about owning a business?
https://qr.ae/TUtywH - Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame, claims that thousands of jobs are available in the US but nobody will take them. In our capitalistic country, doesn't this demonstrate that the rate of pay needs to be increased for these same jobs?
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This is the second instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyoa - What is the most lucrative business move that you’ve ever made?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoe - Why does Tarkin's CGI in Rogue One look so plastic-y? Could they have made it look more realistic?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoc - What are some useful technology life hacks?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoJ - Why are pineapples called pineapples? In most languages, pineapples are called “ananas”, or something similar.
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This is the first instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtrxv - What are some undeniable facts about life?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxy - Why are there television ads for milk? Is there anyone who hasn't heard of milk?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxY - I irrationally see being a Google engineer as the "dream job". How can I convince myself there's nothing special about it?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxC - Do you use a different name at Starbucks? If so, why, and what is the name?
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Having recently attended a number of events this autumn to speak with university students, young professionals, and small business owners, I’ve fielded many questions about what reading I would recommend to them.
While I’ve previously shared my thoughts on this topic, my journey has taken me down many paths and through many hoops in the three years since then. I have a few more thoughts to share.
The big one is that everybody should learn Sales. > Cue groans <
Listen, I get it: ‘selling’ is thought of as something dirty… but that’s such an outdated notion. The reality is that we are all selling, all of the time. Selling is the art and science of…
