Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation

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 to this site or to my Windows Live Writer. As this will let me post easily from my ...

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): 1. Your wishes may not be all that they are cracked up to be. 2. Learn not only from ...

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 productivity, freelancing, running your own business, making money online, setting goals, ...

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 dashes" instead of on-demand reactivenessInvest in Search - Both Web and ...

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 new things?

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, Flip is selling mini video cameras for $60 and the blog/twit-o-sphere is burning! DM ...

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 continue my exploration of the brave new world of the 21st century. While I'll be writing ...

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 had been available, certainly would have been an Independent Innovation company.  In ...

Gregg Spiridellis of JibJab is presenting at Gnomedex 2007.  JibJab has been self-funded by Gregg and his brother from the beginning (1999) and, through a lot of hard work, kept it going through the dot com crash and, as pretty much everyone knows, hit it big with the "This Land" political animated video before the 2004 ...

I've been working with one of my fellow travellers on the software bus for 20 years now.  He works really hard to keep his identity protected so I won't "out" him but I'll refer to him by his secret identity of "Krow".  Krow and I first met when I put a 3 line advertisement in the Monterey Herald in 1987 ...