Scott Nixon

"Superstition is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of being out there all alone with no magical..."

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:29:00 -0400

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Superstition is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of being out there all alone with no magical back-up. This hurts you twice — first, it sets you up to accept failure as a “punishment” rather than as just one of many possible outcomes…

… and, second, it robs you of any sense of accomplishment when you win. It ain’t the rabbit’s foot. It’s you, and the preparation and skill-building and focus you put into the task, that made things happen.

”

- John Carlton

adampritzker: RIP MCA - @GA chalk tribute (Taken with...

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:19:56 -0400

adampritzker:

RIP MCA - @GA chalk tribute (Taken with instagram)

Health Kismet: Dissecting the Diet and Lifestyle of Kenyan Runners

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:14:05 -0400

Health Kismet: Dissecting the Diet and Lifestyle of Kenyan Runners:

Great article on Kenya runners.

healthkismet:

Kenyans and Ethiopians have a well deserved reputation as elite distance runners.

Kenyan runners toiled in obscurity until the 1968 olympics, when they surprised everyone by showing up with little fanfare, and then gently took an axe to the competition. Led by the charismatic Kipchogo Keino…

Completely worth spending 1.5 hours to watch this.

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:07:35 -0500

Completely worth spending 1.5 hours to watch this.

"If you are binding to a Collection such as this.collection.bind(“click”, this.callback)..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:15:55 -0500

“If you are binding to a Collection such as this.collection.bind(“click”, this.callback) then the context of the ‘this’ in the callback function is the “collection’s context”. Using this.collection.bind(“click”, this.callback, this) will give it the context of the view in which the binding is happening.”

- Joey from backbonescreencasts.com (Thanks Joey!)

360,000 vs. 4,000,000 Jobs

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:40:23 -0500

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/sopa_busted.gif

Make the Sale Today

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:37:00 -0500

I had an Accounting teacher Dr. Cynthia Bolt at The Citadel that used to say that “I’d rather have the money today because you don’t know what tomorrow is going to hold.” Laws change, inflation, cashflow, opportunity costs, etc. Her statement was mostly about investing and accounting, however I think this line of thinking is also very applicable to sales. If you have a customer today, you want to sell to them today and get their money now, because you never know what will change. This person might not be a customer past next week for any number of reason including: death, they fall of the wagon, they loose interest, and life changes.

Marginal Cost

In economics and finance, marginal cost is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit. That is, it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good. [from wikipedia] When you sell software and ebooks that marginal is practically zero.

foryounotthem: December 28, 2011 | West Village, NYC

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:22:58 -0500

foryounotthem:

December 28, 2011 | West Village, NYC

livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:01:47 -0500

livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy :

jeffepstein:

Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.

I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.

[edit: apparently GoDaddy changed their stance according to TechCrunch]

Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.

Step 2:…

"It’s amazing to me that a company as big as Tumblr is guilt of a huge UX mistake. Next goes..."

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:12:22 -0500

“It’s amazing to me that a company as big as Tumblr is guilt of a huge UX mistake. Next goes backwards in time while Previous forewords. WTF!”

- Scott Nixon

j2d2: Are you past oriented or future oriented? I’m...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:29:13 -0500

j2d2:

Are you past oriented or future oriented?

I’m mostly future oriented and my 80-90 hour weeks show that.

j2d2: Very gradual change we can believe in.

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:31:32 -0500

j2d2:

Very gradual change we can believe in.

Ignite Steamboat Presentation.

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:21:00 -0500

Give more value than you take.

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Google Docs Table

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:11:00 -0500

I’m trying to come up with a quick and easier reporting tool for our sales data. So I decided to try out Google Docs Table.

First off this is a super limited tool; the primary two manipulation aspects field filters and aggregates.

I think this tool could be good for a really quick upload and very simple analysis. They also have visualization tools build-in but configuration is limited so the best I could easily create was this graph which is useless to us; we know that English speaking countries are our primary users. There is also a feature for creating data views but it only lets you remove columns and doesn’t preserve any filters or aggregates.

Next I’m going to try FileMaker Pro as I understand it is a really great tool. We will see.

j2d2: Lost?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:52:59 -0500

j2d2:

Lost?

Photo

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:53:20 -0500

Wow! Just Wow!

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:52:04 -0400

Wow! Just Wow!

white out.

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:20:26 -0400

white out.

Growing a beard again. Hope, it makes me a more powerful...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:44:30 -0400

Growing a beard again. Hope, it makes me a more powerful programmer.

I’m surrounded by a-holes that love email. How about loving Documentation or Team Work?

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:55:00 -0400

I’m surrounded by a-holes that love email. How about loving Documentation or Team Work?