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Re: Fellow Spotlight Video: Karla Macedo

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:45:28 -0000

Awesome video, MJ!

Re: Day 12: A Day at the Races

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:11:37 -0000

"Race Happens: 60 seconds of pleasure while the horses make or break your future child’s college education."

haha. Yeah dawg. You're on fire with this blog. Keep it rocking!

Re: Day 9: Picture Gallery, “Real Estate & Cousins of the 1st and 2nd Order”

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:24:21 -0000

Loving all the random little details and pics. They really add a lot of flavor to the story.

Re: http://www.curiousjordy.com/post/407521640

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:35:55 -0000

Well, the week is over, and the results of my little social experiment on myself are in.

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Earlier this week, I set a goal for myself to launch a first pass of Facebook Connect integration by tonight. I basically ran a little experiment trying to motivate myself using the power of Facebook.

Well, If you can see this message, that means I achieve...d my goal. Wo0t!!!

Yeah, technically it's after Friday 11:59pm... and it's just a picture of a LOLcat instead of something related to the site I'm working on... and I didn't achieve my other goal for the week...

BUT despite all that, I'm going to go ahead and call this experiment a moderate success. The simple fact of posting something publically made me feel more accountable and gave me some extra motivation to power through when the going got tough. And it did get tough. Integrating with FB Connect pretty much kicked my ass.

Anyway, it feels good to get my "hello world" finally live. Stay tuned for more exciting motivational ramblings, coming to a facebook near you...

Re: Curious Jordy? - Get a grip!

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:59:27 -0000

Heh - yeah, I've learned (finally) to never give advice to guys unless 1) they ask for it, or 2) there's just no other way out.

Re: Curious Jordy? - Get a grip!

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:38:20 -0000

Thanks Neil!

Re: Curious Jordy? - Get a grip!

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:37:54 -0000

Yeah, that meta-awareness is key. Paying attention to the conversation topic and the nature of the conversation itself. Being aware of frustration in myself or the other person is my best clue to the steering "getting light".

Re: Heroku | Tech: Sending email with Gmail

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:21:03 -0000

This is a great feature and I just got it working.

One nit to pick, seconding jordinl's comment: the instructions are wrong.

It should be: heroku config:add GMAIL_SMTP_USER=username@gmail.com
Instead of: heroku config GMAIL_SMTP_USER=username@gmail.com

Would be helpful to update the post so others don't make the same mistake...

Re: Curious Jordy? - What I Learned At The Psychotherapy Conference (Part 1)

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:35:34 -0000

Any time. I love this stuff. :)

Re: Curious Jordy? - The Secret To Being A Real Man

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:40:47 -0000

LOL

And Curious Jordy loves you right back, man.

You're right that having a place all to yourself is great for that. I've never really lived by myself so I wouldn't really know about that, though. It's OK, I'm not bitter or anything.

Yeah, I did it.

Re: How to win friends and influence people (by copying your cat)

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:59 -0000

Hm... in this case the trigger would be the behavior itself - whenever somebody does that thing that you like, you reward them.

A couple thoughts...

Becoming more aware of one's own feelings, especially positive ones, helps with this. I definitely have a hard time with this myself - it's so much easier to recognize when we get frustrated than when we feel good. That's why most people use punishment instead of positive reinforcement.

So my suggestion would be to work on mindfulness and being aware of your internal state. A site like http://www.happyfactor.com could be helpful to get started with this. (If you already do meditation then you're probably more used to checking in with yourself.)

Good luck!

Re: How to win friends and influence people (by copying your cat)

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:37:11 -0000

Thanks Tom.

Yeah, spot on about the human training vs dog training. I learned so much from reading "Don't Shoot The Dog" that applies to everything I do, with both pets and people.

I'm only vaguely familiar with NLP, but it sounds similar enough to be worth investigating. Are you familiar with it? Can you recommend a book?

Non Zero looks fantastic - I just ordered it. Thanks for the tip!

Re: How to win friends and influence people (by copying your cat)

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:01:59 -0000

Sure thing, Marguerite. Thanks for your thoughts.

I particularly like the concept of using technology to facilitate the expansion of social networks around "enlightened" or simple "higher-functioning" individuals.

Makes me think of Clay Shirky's recent article about happiness being contagious: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

I think that there is a big potential for this kind mindfulness spreading service. I also have experienced the phenomenon of being inspired via Twitter and blogs. Definitely something I'll keep looking out for.

Re: How to win friends and influence people (by copying your cat)

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:58:06 -0000

Hey, glad you like it!

That's totally right - the cat's unconditional love is a huge part of why people are more able to show affection to it. Because they're not afraid of rejection.

I think the reason for cat's unconditional love is simply that it is totally dependent on you to survive. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, basically.

It gets more complicated with people, because most friends/lovers/family members typically aren't 100% dependent on us to survive, so they have the option to reject us, if they want to...

People are more complicated than cats, but they have their benefits, too. ;)

Re: jordym.com - How To Be A Failure In this video I will teach...

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:31:13 -0000

Thanks Allan, glad you liked it!

It was challenging for me, but I enjoyed making it and will be doing more in the future.

Glad to hear you're focusing on programming. Always good to work on whatever is most difficult for you. Speaking of which, I need to get back to learning programming myself. :)

Re: jordym.com - How To Be A Failure In this video I will teach...

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:18:28 -0000

Hi Mom!

Hm, did you actually watch the whole video? I think the answer about what I'm working on at the moment is in there... I'll give you a hint - it's not failure, or success.

Re: jordym.com - How To Be A Failure In this video I will teach...

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:31:46 -0000

Thanks, Brian.

I would say that risk taking is certainly a factor, but it's somewhat tangential to my main point.

"If you go for it and try to, say, build a startup from scratch the chances of failure are much greater but so are the rewards."

I guess what I'm trying to express is that if you build the startup with the goal of LEARNING and improving, not success, then YOU can't be a failure. The startup may be a failure, but you will have learned something and hence achieved your goal.

That being said, some lessons are painful to learn and have negative consequences, like being totally broke. Hence the desire to go for incremental improvements.

Re: jordym.com - How To Be A Failure In this video I will teach...

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:27:39 -0000

Good points, and questions.

Defining success is key, as you say. Declaring your intention allows you to work towards it.

My definition of success USED to be to make a million dollars by the time I was 25, and buy my mom a house.

What's my definition of success now? Very interesting. It's harder to pin down than I might have expected.

It's something like, having the maximum possible impact making the world *better*. Which of course begs the question of what I define as better, and which is the part that's hard to pin down. Being better is a personal thing. For me it includes people on a micro scale (less physical and emotional suffering, more liberation, more joy, more empathy) and the world on a macro scale (less war, more tolerance, less pollution, more bio-diversity, etc etc).

Obviously I need to refine and simplify this viewpoint a bit. :)

Re: jordym.com - Flying above the clouds, Mt. Tam

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:33:59 -0000

Relax... I'm a professional. ;)

Re: Recap from tonight's Mobile Monday on monetization

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:44:57 -0000

Sure thing, man!

Re: Is life a zero-sum game?

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:58:11 -0000

Thanks Gene, glad you like the post.

I think I fixed the missing not (maybe).

I'm oversimplifying a bit when I say that business is zero-sum. I meant it in the sense that when you have a direct competitor, it's either you or them. But if one or the other can pivot a bit and find their own market niche, then perhaps the situation wouldn't be zero-sum anymore.

Re: Positive capability

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:10:25 -0000

So much talent. http://www.myspace.com/core...

Re: Positive capability

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:09:53 -0000

These guys rock: http://www.myspace.com/theb...

Re: Positive capability

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:06:22 -0000

yeah sorry about that, i'm still working out how to best use qik. it's a live stream so when i stop filming, there's a large buffer that it stiill needs to upload. if i get disconnected before it's all uploaded then it cuts off. balls to that.

Re: Positive capability

Jordy Mont-Reynaud — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:04:43 -0000

1. Not a stranger, that was my new buddy Jonathan sitting on a glass of ice water
2. That cop was cool.
3. I never know whether to order vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate shake. Usually I go for chocolate. Couldn't decide this time and was with two people so decided to get one of each. Turns out they all sucked. Never order a shake at Whataburger.