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Giving Posterous a Whirl...

I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:04 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

7 Tips for Living a Happier Life - from Aesop

Over on The Positivity Blog , Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame . Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details): Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:22 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Putting Things Off - PTO - The laid-back productivity blog

Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: " Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Steve Rubel - Three Ways to Mitigate the Attention Crash, Yet Still Feel Informed

Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash . Summary: Inbox Zero - www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:36 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Cognitive Surplus - Finally a way to figure out where to get the time to create new stuff!

Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 Expo this week, finally enabled me to figure out where to get the time to create podcasts, eBooks, etc.... STOP WATCHING TELEVISION (or at least sitcoms)... Your thoughts/comments? What do you to to make time to create Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:44 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo - San Francisco - Day 2

At the Web 2.0 Expo this week. Interesting conversations with people who are at the forefront of moving the world to (and from) the web. Hanging in the blogger's lounge the energy is amazingly high (and this is during the keynotes!) Good connectivity, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:27 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Write/Build e-Book in 3 Days?

The folks over at GET WISDOM! have a blog post today entitled How To Create Your Own E-book in 3 Days . Day 1: Brainstorm about something you'd personally like to improve and go gather information about that and write/compile your content. Day 2: Plan Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:12 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

MIX08 and 41 Blog Success Tips

I'm in Las Vegas for the MIX08 conference. Part of what I'm doing here is finally, and I promise that I really mean it this time :), blogging regularly again! So here's the first of many posts this week! To help out, I'm reading Chris Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:39 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments
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Build something of value -- something that people want, and something that will be profitable at the appropriate point -- and the world is yours.

Marc Andreesen, the developer behind the original Netscape browser, and now Silicon Valley pundit, wrote a blog post that contains the essence of success in building a company:  Build something worthy! His overall post is about the effect of the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:11 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart

If you are a Independent Innovator you've got to check out Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart whose motto is: "It’s your money - you keep it". Costs max $20/month. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 8:02 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Escaping from cubicle hell

Working from "home" is one of the most common options for the independent innovator and now Inc (via Yahoo) has a article that points to a couple of interesting sites: http://www.chiefhomeofficer.com and http://www.workingsolo.com Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:15 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

HUGH macleod - GAPINGVOID reignites my microbranding efforts

Hugh MacLeod , author of the gapingvoid blog/comics today posted an "Important Announcement" in which he comments on how his consulting business has been both the beneficiary of his microbranding/blogging efforts and has taken his focus away Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:05 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Second stage ignition...

Unlike the plan which I had in place, I've been silent for the past two months going heads-down on a new project.  It's been a major push and I'm happy to say it's nearing an end as it will be unveiled next Monday, November 5th, at the Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 7:42 AM by Michael_Lehman | 2 Comments

Independent Innovation is in the air!

Ok, September has officially started and life is back "in session". After moving, a great vacation and recovering from the digital debt of being "off-the-grid" for 12 days in a row (a record in recent history!) I'm now ready to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Once upon a time.... the tangled web of the story of CP/M-86, 86-DOS and PCDOS/MSDOS

Nearly twenty years ago I started a small company which was, at first, called MetaTech and then, after the threat of a lawsuit, changed to MT MicroSYSTEMS to build Pascal compilers . The company was what we now would call a MicroISV and, if the Internet Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 3:25 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments
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