DISQUS

Great letter Charlie. Everything you said totally applies... and it applies on a Federal level, where, well, it's much worse. It's the classic top down thing, where the bureaucrats *know* they have to do something, propose doing something, maybe even do something without ever getting "dirty" with the community they're supposed to be supporting. I think that change.gov is a nice step in the right direction, but where is the Digg.com for infrastructure and education? For the support of technology and biotechnology?

Here's a couple of other ones: Brooklyn Children's Museum is free on Sunday mornings until 11. (Queens Children's Museum too!)
Order incredibly tasty and cheap tacos at Tacos Nuevo Mexico (Fifth Avenue and 12th Street - Park Slope).
Prospect Park Wine (7th Avenue and 9th Street) offers free wine tastings on most Friday and Saturday nights as does newcomer Picada y Vino (5th Avenue @3rd Street).
If you go to Red Hook, definitely visit the Fairway, not necessarily to shop but to walk around the ocean-facing park behind it. While you're at it, why not try to check out some of the art in the old warehouses. The Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition holds two big gallery shows there at different times of the year.

Thanks Jim. We name products, companies, services and experiences. We also follow interesting people on Twitter and network on LinkedIn.

Great lesson! I'm sure there are lots of sales to be learned from other movies but your was the best I've seen in a while.

This is awesome. My plan: starve myself to mid-afternoon or only eat there when it's raining.

Great video. I really enjoyed that. Too bad the brewery owner didn't see the value in your advice. Great work Tim. Very inspiring.

@JT - Not sure what the total number of Mexican restaurants offering grass-fed organic beef, but the Chipotle's chain makes a point of marketing themselves via serving organic beef, pork and chicken. Pretty tasty and you don't have to have rice (I know, there's one on the corner from work).

Ann Rand?
Two Crichton books? Only Andromeda Strain belongs.
Two Dick books and three Gibsons? Those should've been grouped as 1 with room for other books.
For example, Alfred Bester's brilliant Stars My Destinaion.

I also agree with you on this and with several of the comments above. I am an LinkedIn Open Networker with 4,000+ direct connections. I use LinkedIn to let people know about my small business and also to expand my friends' networks (I don't just say that, I probably forward 5 to 10 introductions per week.)

For the past two months (once I passed the 3,500 mark), I started getting error messages while performing the most mundane of tasks. I've heard from others with large networks that LI says its because of the size of our networks - so basically, we are at fault!


There has been a growing thread on the Yahoo! LIONs group that dissects the issues and also proposes numerous solutions.

LI is my favorite social networking site because it is for professionals. There is so much potential there. I'd hate to see them go the way of Friendster. Increased advertising is not one of them.

This is so funny. Just this morning I was thinking about what it would be like to combine GTD with 4HWW - I swear. I do tend to think they are complimentary and I find Mark Hurst's suggestion that GTD approach is "a throwback to a pre-Internet age" to be insulting.

If I do decide to implement both, simultaneously, I'll let you know.

Hey Tim -
I live in the NYC area, run a successful naming and marketing communications company and have been outsourcing both domestically and internationally for the past 4 months. International outsources have helped me with increasing the size of my mailing lists, web design, online marketing and accounting; domestic outsourcer helps me with research, day-to-day administrative tasks.
I regret that I didn't start outsourcing sooner - but your book was the catalyst to start doing things I had been thinking about doing after running my business for a year in Panama.
My outsourcers are allowing me to grow my business faster and work less so that I can make breakfasts for my three sons, take one to school and be home relatively early for dinner and homework each and every day.
Feel free to forward my information to the Early Show Producers and keep up the great work.
-Karl

Tim - Another fantastic post. Great interview and great tips. Keep interviewing movers and shakers. You definitely have a knack for it (small understatement) and your interview subjects respond in-kind. Look forward to the next posts.

I loved that clip. Love the Onion.

Before reading Tim's book (which I devoured), I had looked into outsourcing Spanish lessons for my 7 year old. I found and interviewed (via Skype) a wonderful teacher in Argentina. Her rate was a little higher than the Indian outsourcers I use, but it's still 1/3rd of what I would pay in NYC.

Plus, (my thinking is), my son loves being on the computer, so a couple of hours a week learning Spanish from an Argentine kills two birds with one stone.

More on this later.

Great segment Tim. Donny comes off the way he usually does - mostly pompous and full of himself. He makes it seem like there are only two ways to succeed in life - do something you love (which I don't disagree with) or work harder than the next guy. Fortunately, there are as many ways to work as there are ways to make money. I'll take the trip to Costa Rica any time over a day at Deutsch's agency.

Well... This makes probably the tenth time I visited your site - first for the Geek to Freak entries, then for FHWW stuff (brilliant book, very inspiring, thanks! and congrats on best-seller-dom! [I knew you would do it.]). I saw this entry and had been on the fence about Platinum for a while but now am going to go for it. Thanks!

Also, would love to add you on LinkedIn.