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Russian Meteor: What’s With All The Dash Cams?If, like me, you were sitting dumbstruck watching Youtube videos depicting a raging ball of fire falling out of the sky in the early hours this morning, you may have been equally dumbstruck by the sheer number of eyewitness videos. There are videos of the object exploding into a bright orb, there’s dramatic footage of the moment when the shock wave blew out windows, but above all, there’s a crazy number of videos shot from the dashboards of cars. What’s that about? Read more
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My Mobile Data Usage Exploded (Update)
I blogged about my experience of switching from a 1Gb to a 6Gb plan a couple of months ago. Since the switch, I have been using more mobile data than ever (which was expected). What I didn’t expect was how fast the usage has been growing. Here is a screen capture of my usage that I took last evening (billing cycle ended last night):
No Internet? No problem, use my personal hotspot.
Daddy, can I finish watching this Netflix movie in the car? Sure.
Free wifi in Starbucks? Too much hassle to click on the “I Accept” button. Just use my own LTE. It is faster anyway.
Forget to turn off CrashPlan while on cellular network? No big deal. I have unused bandwidth.
Well, I guess I have to pay more attention to my mobile data usage now. This is a perfect example of how “free” completely changes user behaviour. I know I paid for the 6Gb plan, but it was the same price as my old 1Gb plan so I have got 5Gb “free” (at least that’s how I think). And of course 6Gb felt like “unlimited” to me.
“Free” is extremely powerful because it really eliminates friction. It can help drive mobile data usage. For writers, it can also help drive readership (exactly my point when I was speaking at O’Reilly Tools Of Change).
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“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise. — Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst.”
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Want to build a business? Don't follow your Passion
Here is the inspiration for today’s Blog Post.
Sorry for the Rant! But I’ve needed to get this thought out for a while now…
The article in Fast Company is a great read and goes into detail how Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs - and it’s not what he said in his famous speech to the Stanford grads. He didn’t found Apple by doing what he ‘loves to do’, he found it by accident.
All over the internet, Facebook and Blogs, it’s spread like a virus that:
The key to occupational happiness is to first figure out what you’re passionate about and then find a job that matches this passion.
It’s not True
‘“do what you love, and the money will follow” has become the de facto motto of the career-advice field’
Follow love and the money will follow is not totally true as well
There are a million books, articles and courses on how to discover your Love & Passion. All there, so you can chase after it and do what you love. It’s like a Hollywood dream that many of us (including me) have been chasing for a long time. It seems to capture some of the fascination we have with music artists, actors and sports athletes.
No amount of Passion can overcome picking a market that’s not viable to begin with, or starting a business that doesn’t have a way to monetize. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have love or passion, but I now think now that this is the wrong place to start from.
The article finally ends with some great practical advice we can all follow when trying to find that elusive business idea/lost love (this is how Steve Jobs actually founded Apple Computers):
How do we find work that we’ll eventually love? Like Jobs, should we resist settling into one rigid career and instead try lots of small schemes, waiting for one to take off
Don’t follow your passion - experiment with a few ideas and test what works. The Passion and Love can come later, after you start delivering something you can be proud of. I don’t have any science to back this up, but I’m sure more successful businesses were started this way more than any other method.
I’m not saying you can’t love what you do. You can grow to love and be passionate about the business you start - but searching for passion as the starting point seems like nonsensical advice to me. How can you do what you love when most of us struggle with that?
It’s almost impossible to pin down what our true passions are and we usually find them by accident no? (I’m still trying to find my passions and when someone asks, it’s the universal love of music, art, technology, etc like everyone else)
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid anymore. I have some successful friends that are really great and passionate about what they do, but they didn’t start off that way.
Here is the book that this story idea came from.
What do you think?
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