Archive for 2014

I do not understand how you can call yourself a genius of content marketing yet outsource your “voice” to be written by someone being paid three cents a word with English as a second language.

You will NEVER be able to shame me in to responding to your cold email or taking your call.

You can never over-communicate but you can over-talk.

The worst kind of perfectionist is the one that wants it only from other people.

Perfection is the enemy of delegation.

“It will take me longer to explain it than to do it myself” is the refrain of the covert perfectionist.

Not the best way to convince me to cofound a startup with you: “I don’t know what I want, but I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I’ll know it once you’ve built it.”

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” Or some really good porn.

The greatest lie any recruiter has said to me in the past decade: “Saw your resume online…” No. You didn’t.

My approach to figuring out what clients want? “Tell Dr Lloyd where it hurts.”

You don’t ask for a circus to come to town. The circus shows up and puts on a show. It’s your job to show up to the circus. Entrepreneurs who ask “can I bring my circus to your town?” are going to quickly find that the answer is inevitably “no.”

My wife thinks I am adorable. I have successfully seduced her with my social awkwardness.

Wife keeps hinting she wants me to move to UK. I keep hinting I want to move to Denmark. We are going to compromise and most likely move to Portland.

Random entrepreneur I don’t know wants me to sign an NDA before he’ll talk so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.

I think most NDAs are BS but then I meet a 20-page NDA that was effectively “You agree to work for me for free.” Yeah… no.

Your start-up has thrust and momentum. Some things you do produce thrust. Other things you do produce no thrust at all. Figure out what things you do that produce thrust, and do lots of that. Remove the things you do that don’t produce thrust. You cannot rely on momentum forever.

Wealthy. Authentic. Liked. Pick two.

Changing the world one line of code at a time.

Busy. Prolific. Cheap. Pick two.

Life is short, work somewhere awesome.