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Re: Am I confused about the GPL or are they?

natedog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:45:58 -0000

It does seem weird doesn't it :) Especially CSS. If you took the CSS away from most of these themes, they wouldn't be very "operable" in some sense of using a website. But this sums up the current stance on the whole thing:

http://wordpress.org/news/2...

"PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required."

Re: Am I confused about the GPL or are they?

natedog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:06:02 -0000

Ah gotcha. "any materials or design elements on the themes is prohibited." leaves room to be confused as to whether "assets" is what they were referring to, but right that makes sense about things like images.

Re: My Last Post

natedog — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:05:20 -0000

Great post. Thought this shared some similar perspective: "Live as if you were born yesterday, and will die tomorrow".

Re: Baby Care Division | Inkling Portfolio

natedog — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:32:31 -0000

You have grossly overestimated the value of Foxtrot

Re: Wisdom from Andy Rooney

natedog — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:34:56 -0000

That's a great quote from Rooney. I'm surprised actually. He's been such a grouch on 60 minutes lately. I saw him the other day berate someone who wrote in asking simply why he wore his watch on the "other" wrist.

It's such a true statement too. It's probably why Zen Buddhism seems so successful at bringing tranquility and happiness, since these Zen guys seem to be able to turn washing dishes into an enjoyable experience.

Started reading a book called The Optimism Advantage. "The first truth in the game of life is worth memorizing - life is difficult! So get over it."

Re: Wookiee the Pooh [PIC]

natedog — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:25:19 -0000

These are awesome. So is r2d2 supposed to be some version of Piglet, because did Piglet have a bandana? Oh never mind. It's a scarf. Now I see.

Re: Don't Be Like Seinfeld - Break the Chain

natedog — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:29:45 -0000

Yeah, I have another post coming soon probably about how powerful deadlines are. Especially the 30 day kind of challenge your are encouraging from people. There's a reason so many books offer blueprints. Or "do this system for 30 days". Or the p90x, get ripped in 90 days. It's because people want them, badly. And they want them because they are extremely motivating to know that I'm going to achieve some kind of result at the end of 30 days. And I know I can get through 30 days. I also know I can and will have to do a lot more after 30 days, but at least I can get motivated to start. Of course it sucks as well if people think that it's 30 days to being rich, but that's the evil side of that coin. And yep, I still think some variety works real well in that mix like you said.

Re: Don't keep yourself DRY; be REAL instead

natedog — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:23:27 -0000

Awesome :) Thanks for checking it out! I just recently put your book on my Safari bookshelf. I've started spending a good chunk of time studying and working with optimization. I noticed those Influence articles of yours specifically because I've been looking at the psychological side of persuasion lately.

You might get a kick out of this post:

http://blog.inklingmarkets....

What I learned about persuasion manipulating the person making a sandwich.

-Nate

Re: Don't keep yourself DRY; be REAL instead

natedog — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:17:14 -0000

That's awesome. Thanks for improving it guys. Especially the retweets!

Re: Don't keep yourself DRY; be REAL instead

natedog — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:36:46 -0000

Thanks Brian. I like your's a lot. Really want to come up with something clever with a REAL acronym too. So far I've been thwarted.

Re: Picasso was a failure

natedog — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:17:42 -0000

Hey Dan, thanks! Who cares what I think :) http://blog.inklingmarkets....

Feedback is usually a useful tool, so if it helps to get the stuff out there in the open and people are helping you polishing your thoughts, than awesome. Here's another great example of putting project ideas out there in the open and letting other people collaborate or execute on them:

http://www.thirtydayproject...

Re: 10 Observations on Duct Tape Marketing's Dirty Little Marketing Research Secret

natedog — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:55:10 -0000

I totally understand where your coming from. I don't see myself buying another People any time soon. And I find reality TV grating. Although I can enjoy a Kitchen Nightmares or two. But yeah, I only brought up People since like you said it's a window. There seems like there could be treasure trove of info to understand why things like People magazine is so attractive to assist in other things. Like that Maghound service seems pretty useful. And they realize they might get some more views of their ad if they tap into what people kind of want. But I agree this can go quickly in the reverse direction with people creating content and services that just flame the same fire that powers celebrity gossip.

Re: Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich

natedog — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:06:13 -0000

Yep, I'll give it a look soon. This whole post actually was inspired by something I had found at Cialdini's website actually where he made a mention of dentists named dennis.

And thanks too for the heads up on whipped cream, I'll correct it now :)

Re: Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich

natedog — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:36:18 -0000

:) Yep you're right. And even with all the time spent talking about testing new designs for our websites, there's probably not enough time spent thinking about optimizing the psychology of the site and using that to provide the basis of those new designs.

Re: http://www.joomlablogger.net/blog/off-topic/online-software-i-use-daily/

natedog — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:14:21 -0000

Evernote is awesome. It's one of the web apps I've used the longest. We also get a ton of use out of Campfire to collaborate internally as well as for customer support. It's super easy to through up a link on a product to a chat room guests can use to get help. Pivotal Tracker is also coming in very handy: http://pivotaltracker.com for tracking bugs and features we want to tackle. They way it lays out what your working on, you get to see an idea of when things are going to get done. Github.com of course for managing code. And for a little nod to something we made ourselves, we get a lot of use out of http://tgethr.com, it's basically a friendlier and easier Google Groups.

Re: How long can you go without saying "I want"?

natedog — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:57:10 -0000

That's awesome. Happy Birthday! Hope you thoroughly enjoy the day.

Re: You matter more than you will ever know

natedog — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:02:11 -0000

That's awesome. Thanks for that story.

Re: Happiness from jumping off the corporate ladder

natedog — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:39:33 -0000

Well, I'm not entirely sure there aren't a lot of people like Joan. There's a lot of people I meet that want to learn new things, but the path since school as always been about achieving some kind of grade. Perform to some external judgement or mark, instead of perform for something more intrinsic to the performance. Like we "learn geometry to get a good grade in math" not "learn geomoetry because you'd like to build your own bicycle". And that continues into our adulthood. "Work hard here to get a promotion". Instead of work hard because you want to build a better insurance company for your family to use.

I'm going off on a tangent a bit and really just thinking a bit abstractly about working/education/fun/happiness, but I think it's all interrelated. I love with Ricaro Semler started doing with schools (and I'm trying to explore his work more)

www.abc.net.au/7.30/content...

"And if you make it interesting - for example, our courses are not geometry or physics. Our course is setting up a bicycle, it's a three month course and you start from scratch and you design a bicycle. To design a bicycle you need pi, and pi is 3.1416, but if I tell you pi is very important you think it's an apple pie. Now if you want to do your own bicycle the only thing to make a perfect circle so the thing doesn't unbalance is to learn pi. So we set up these courses, we have chemistry in the kitchen. We found a different way of saying, this is very interesting stuff. It's just that we've made it so boring, we've divided it into disciplines and made your life so terrible that you hate it, but you shouldn't hate it. It's wonderful to know how our life works."

He's got some thoughts too about he organizes people not in the typical pyramid that I'll be delving into more shortly too.

Re: Does self promotion cause heart disease?

natedog — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:08:49 -0000

You also made me think of http://instapaper.com. That's a very useful tool for a lot of folks. But it's site is crazy stark. Just grey. No testimonials. No "reviews". Just signup. Easy signup, and go.

Re: Does self promotion cause heart disease?

natedog — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:05:05 -0000

John, your right, and in the context of say a blog, that's exactly how I think we try to operate around here I hope. We want to be able to teach people how we do things and let them know we think it's repeatable. But I think this gets deeper than just that.

For example, every website today has a testimonial page. Product homepages are loaded with reviews of "How awesome our product is". I'm not sure back in Roseto you'd find stuff like that. But today, we do it constantly in our marketing and commercials of telling people "We are great and so are our products".

And I'm not saying its monumentally evil. Just seems that it creates a little bit of an environment I don't like. But we do it ourselves.

I like looking at things like the Berkshire Hathaway website Chris pointed out above and seeing absolutely no self-promotion. http://Instapaper.com is a good example of this too. Here's a very useful application, they even sell an iPhone app http://www.instapaper.com/i.... There's not a single testimonial on any of these pages. People just know they need instapaper, find them, and use it.

Re: Does self promotion cause heart disease?

natedog — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:52:51 -0000

Crazy. Never knew Warren was like that, I want to learn more about that guy now. That website is crazy too. I love it!

Re: PRESS RELEASE: INKLING NOW THE LEADING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY IN THE UNIVERSE

natedog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:17:31 -0000

Thanks. I don't see it being to tough. Who wouldn't jump on no escrow?

Re: BusinessWeek names Inkling one of America's most promising startups

natedog — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:31:21 -0000

Thank you! Very exciting mention.

Re: Achieve Less

natedog — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:27:05 -0000

:) Ha, thanks man!

Re: Achieve Less

natedog — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:23:41 -0000

Thanks man. Exactly, seems like you went through something similar. And it's crazy how we forget that stuff. I'll write more soon, but it's like that lesson gets a bit lost in my trials and tribulations in adulthood or running a business. Some of the goals that get made up aren't really all that important. What is important is that I work hard at enjoying my time with it.