John Maxwell

@pwgen

An offbeat idea in every tweet. Cofounder

California
Joined September 2010

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  1. The Calculist project is now over two thirds funded! !

  2. If and had a baby, it would look something like...

  3. MealSquares won a taste testing competition against 3 other products:

  4. Negative visualization is synthetic habituation.

  5. We hit the frontpage of the Soylent subreddit: Good to see people are noticing the improvements we're making!

  6. Big problem for intellectual groups, like academia: administration rarely a comparative advantage for geeks, but outsourcing it runs risks

  7. incubators : startups :: franchises : brick and mortar stores

  8. The 0th requirement for becoming a CEO: work hard even when you don't have a boss.

  9. Google searches for "how to focus" have tripled since 2007:

  10. Conspiracy theory: business books suck 'cause people who have figured out things that actually work don't want to sell their ideas cheaply.

  11. Even when they're in different industries, startups still compete with one another for engineers, attention, and investors... what else?

  12. We don't trust teenagers to make important decisions, and posthumans will feel the same way about us.

  13. Changing the world requires 4 things: intelligence, common sense, determination, and eccentricity. Skip just 1 & odds go down significantly.

  14. Insight that made me better at meditating: Don't punish yourself when your mind goes off target; reward yourself when your mind is on target

  15. Social media got big because humans are irrationally obsessed with themselves & one another, in a way net pioneers did not fully appreciate.

  16. Attention internet addicts: Note that the degree to which a stimulus gets your attention correlates poorly w/ the degree it makes you happy.

  17. . should write about some boring topic that more people need to understand... everyone will eagerly lap it up 'cause it's SSC

  18. If people with more karma could upvote multiple times, that would get us much of the way to

  19. John Maxwell followed , , and 58 others
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      Freelance writer/journalist covering politics, hip hop, and social justice. Former blogger

    • @brianball

      New tools means I'll be helping more people. If you need to think creatively about your situation, just ask.

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