I know I haven’t posted for a long time. I am too busy… There is a pile of things I want to write about, and I just don’t find the time. So I will do my best ๐
I came across (thank you Gal), an inspiring article called The eight pillars of innovationย from Google about the Google way of encouraging creativity and innovation. Not long, and worth the time !
Enjoy
Posted in Entrepreneurship, linkedin
No, there is no typo in the title.
In the past months, I spent my time observing, reading, talking, thinking, meeting, etc. – anything that will help me understand what the next step is. My beloved wife called my state-of-mind “Hakuna Matata”. ย I shared some of my experience with you through this site (not too much I hope, but ย I also feel I could have shared more).
Recently I am involved in the inception of a new venture – devising and developing a consumer product that will change the world (yeah, yeah, this is only the 20th time you hear such a statement today…). Well, I really believe we are onto something good. I could reveal more, but then I will have to kill you.
While I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, I have a good feeling about this venture, and if there is something I learned in the past ย months and years is to follow my gut feeling and to do whatever feels good. So far, I enjoy every bit of it – and it means a lot to me.
Another lesson I learned is that while I have to be 100% dedicated to anything I do (as I always do) – one should not be totally immersed in a single thing. I know it sounds like a contradiction, but I’ve learned that you live only once – and you should find the time for your family as well as for other areas of interest and possibly contribute where you can to others (I still need to work on this part, I confess).
Why do I tell it to you? Since you (my subscribers, all 14 of you +RSS readers) followed me for the last six months – read, commented and supported and I think you should know about my change from me, and not from the “Linked-In news” weekly email.
So now you know. What I can promise is that I will not cease to observe. I will try to continue ย posting on what I do and see – I enjoy this part. The posting frequency might be lower – but I will do my best.
Now look again at the post title and now you understand that there is no mistake in it…
Thank you !
Posted in About, Entrepreneurship, Life, linkedin, Work
In the backpack I carry everywhere (with the laptop to various coffee places), there is a small pocket in which I store my keys and my disk-on-key.
A few days ago I shoved my hand into the pocket just to find that the disk-on-key is no longer there.
Not a big loss… Everything I have there is backed up and I did not keep Israel’s Atom secrets on it, but still – I lost it…
When we were in school, University, or even while sitting on a bus – if you lost something, you can always go to “Lost and Found” room (or just go and ask the janitor). But when you lose things out in the open world – there is no one to ask.
So I thought to myself – “hey, this is a great idea for a site”, and already fantasized about the potential (including very specific ads such as “Lost your disk on key? Buy a new one from here…“) but as you remember – Great Minds Think Alike , so I searched the Internet and.…found IT.
ebood.co.il is a what I found. some people actually found their missing belongings, but I suspect that many others did not, including myself. The reason is that no one really knows about this site… And if you found something and you do not know about this site – the loser will not get it back…
So now at least 13 more people know about this site and I am certain that you will use it if you find something or lose something. And please – share the word.
And… if you found a black Sandisk Cruser micro – please put an ad on ebood.co.il…
It might be mine ๐
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life, linkedin, Tools
How many times you had a great idea that you believed will make you the next Mark Zuckerberg (or at least pay yourย mortgage)? And then you Google it, just to find that someone else somewhere in our small Universe already thought about it and implemented it (or “stole” your idea…)?
If it never happened to you then either you are a very boring person (no offense) or you are not searching good enough. It happened too many times to people around me lately.
But wait, there is an upside to it ! The fact that other people thought long time ago about what you think today means that anything you need, is ย already out there. As the saying goes – “Necessity is theย mother ofย innovation”.
Want an example? I read a lot of material and many times I want to keep paragraphs, links or just scribble something related to what I read, so I can read it later with my notes. ย I used many tools – OneNote, bookmarks (online, local, copied URL to a notepad), ReadItLater service etc. All have their drawbacks and none really provided what I really needed. ย Armed with the insight mentioned above, I just Googled “online highlight collect web pages”ย and found Diigo, which is exactly what I needed (and even more) – their slogan is Annotate, Archive, Organize.
This is a prefect tool if you are researching, writing, comparing prices and specs of laptops, or doing anything that requires you to collect excerpts from various sources. And the basic version is free.
Their video is a bit too marketing but you can get the idea from it (or just start using it)
… and no, I do not work for them.
And they “stole” an idea I had long time ago…
Posted in Entrepreneurship, linkedin, Tools
I just came across a very short and cute animation explaining about crowdsourcing and where it is heading.
Will it change the world? will we become a set of self-employed people working in managed crowdsourcing groups, instead of working for big companies?
A nice short article on the subject can be found here: Quality, creative, cost-effectiveโฆCrowdsourcing is finally coming of age
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Work
Apologies to the English readers: I am planning to write most of my posts in English, but some things are better off said in Hebrew. This post is one of them…)
Apparently the mail notifications for posts in Hebrew and the way it looks on IE are a bit messed (I fixed the IE formatting with a lot of blood). I guess someone is trying to tell me to stick with English ๐
ืขืจื ืืื, ืืขืืื ืืืื ืืชืืื ืืจืืื ืืืืขืชืืื, ืฆืื ืืช ืขืื ื ืืืืืขื ืืืื ืขื ืืื ืืืืืขืืช:
ืืืืืจื, ืืืืขื ืคืฉืืื ืืชืืืื ืฉื ืืื ืงืื ืฉืื ืกื ืืืฉืืื ืืื ืกื. ืืื, ืืืืฉืื ื ืืกืคืช, ืืฉ ืื ืืจืื ืืืชืจ. ืืคืฉืจ ืืืืื ืืื ื, ืืืฉื, ืขื ืืืืื ืขืกืงืืช, ืขื ืืขืจืืช ืืืื ืื ืืขื ืื ืฉืืื ืืื.
Posted in Education, Entrepreneurship, Hebrew
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