Category: Psychology of the Deal

  • Anthony Robbins info hunters

    Hello Australians looking information on Anthony Robbins. Leave a comment telling me what you’re looking for. Regular’s might get a kick out of this google.com.au search. I’m the top ranked site in Austalia for “Anthony Robbins”. How strange is that? Disclosure: I have no affiliation whatsoever with Tony Robbins, Robbins Research, or Vision Pursuit. The…

  • Young Entrepreneur Journey

    This evening I came across Michael Simmons – Young Entrepreneur Journey. I’ll be watching his blog closely. Michael is 21 and has achieved so much. A student at Stern School of Business at NYU and award winning young entrepreneur, he has written The Student Success Manifesto. Its subtitle is How to create a life of…

  • Intelligence and Wealth

    Oh no! Richard Lynn has an article on Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, take a look at Table 4: IQs for 185 countries: National IQs Based on the Results of Intelligence Tests and Estimated National IQs (marked by *) Based on the IQs of Neighbouring or Other Comparable Countries. Now Richard’s research…

  • Open Books Management

    I run my company with an open books policy. Staff on the payroll have a right to see the Profit and Loss statement as well as the Balance Sheet. I believe if I’m asking these guys to go on the journey with me, they have a right to know what risks we’re taking. I’ve even…

  • Mr. Ray: The real ‘Nemo’sis

    This CNNmoney article titled Mr. Ray: The real ‘Nemo’sis reports on a $10 Million USD suit by childrens entertainer mr. Ray against Disney and Pixar. mr. Ray (the musician) has a trade mark for his stage name and is worried merchandising for the Mr. Ray character in Pixar’s movie Finding Nemo will bury him. The…

  • I need links

    We had over 1,000 hits in August. One of the other sites hosted on this same server has some Kawasaki Jet Ski maintenance manuals. It got over 201MB of traffic in August on 500+ hits. With zero promotion. Googlebot is your friend, but I think Jet skiers are scary people. The traffic here surprised me,…

  • William Gibson has a blog!

    I’m going to stretch to make that headline relevant, I don’t think I’ll succeed… William Gibson has a blog. If you dpn’t know who William Gibson is, you have a choice: one of the early leading-lights of the cyberpunk SF writing movement; an astonishing writer; go back your morning bagel, who cares?. Two out of…

  • RSS excites me

    I mentioned in my Using Technology post that I’m excited about RSS. RSS stands for (among other things) Really Simple Syndication. That’s an easy way for articles and news to be published in other peoples websites, weblogs, newspages and even by individuals in software called RSS feed readers or RSS news aggregators. RSS offers two…

  • Recharging the batteries

    I need a break. Urgently! So Nella and I were looking at a weekend away in the Hunter Valley. Then we remembered we were already going away with a group of people in a couple of weekends. So going away twice in three weeks doesn’t really work. For one I’d miss my internet connection. We…

  • Chris Batten site update

    I visited www.chrisbatten.com.au again tonight. Chris Batten, Tax specialist from Macquarie Street, Sydney. Chris is a smart, aggressive bloke. Actually he’s a giant. Nella did a contract for him a few years ago now, so we got to know him. A lot of the content on Chris’s site has now moved into the membership (paid)…