CEO diary while founding questionCollector
I created my own tarot reading format. Using the dual heptogram from our logo.
My friend, at the tarot study group I joined, did an interpretation of my first set of cards, before I had time to do one. It was so good that I have never gotten around to doing my own.
Unfortunately the group shut down. I’ll write a my own someday.
For a closer view of the cards.
“Invention is a creative process. An open and curious mind enables one to see beyond what is known. Seeing a new possibility, a new connection or relationship can spark an invention. Inventive thinking frequently involves combining concepts or elements from different realms that would not normally be put together. Sometimes inventors skip over the boundaries between distinctly separate territories or fields. Ways of thinking, materials, processes or tools from one realm are used as no one else has imagined in a different realm.” ~ Wikipedia
I wanted to open with invention, because I am attending The Reinvention Summit; a virtual conference on storytelling. My new friend Michael Margolis has been working his ass off to make this happen and I am proud to support his efforts. I also look forward to watching and hearing all the great presentations.
Quora is a social Q&A website in Beta. I admire their product, their community, and their technical ingenuity. I envy their team, investment, and to a lesser degree their location. I think their broad, unfocused vision, and immature quality control mechanisms will pigeonhole them and prevent scalability. Of course they might pivot successfully, but there is no indication of that occurring, yet.
What Quora is doing well:
I recommend full screen so the text is readable. 
I would love any and all critical feedback. Does it make sense?
I just finished this book called Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse. I needed the refresher. I’m finally building something! I’ve been thinking about my idea for eons (aka about 5 years). I’ve been documenting features, use cases, database models, and fun marketing ideas for about a year now. I’ve been trying to build an initial audience (videos, poetry, & blogging) around my personality and I finally have some fans. Yay! You guys rock! I also worked on my presentation skills, business plan, investment spread sheets, implementation plans, and I founded the company.
Shine by Booty Luv remixed by Moto Blanco and off of the MOS album Put Your Hands in the Air vol. 2
Thanks for watching!
Thanks to Hybrid for inspiring me.
Special thanks to Daniel Hogg of http://hogwildfilms.com for filming and editing!
Thank you for watching!
I am a being of light and shadow. So are you. People observe that light comes from the Sun and stars and shines on the Earth. Too often we take this for granted. After millions of years the light and energy that has gathered on this planet have been transformed into an amazing biosphere of energy beings. While the source of life remains a mystery we can easily attribute our continued existence to the “original” energy of the thermonuclear reactions of the Sun. The key is that light has become concentrated in us. We feed on other energy beings and grow our light within. We do this with the intention of shining it back out into the universe. I think individually we are pretty bright, and collectively we are absolutely brilliant.
We are so bright we are actually polluting the world with our brilliance. Some people think this picture is a testament of our power, and they are probably right, but I think this picture is sad. To me it shows how greatly we are wasting our light trying to “beat” the dark. The key is we are beings of shadow and light, and to deny our darkness is a division that does not serve us. We need to reach for a balance or our light may yet destroy us. (more…)
God looked over
At what s/he had created and said,
“Gosh, what a great solar system this turned out to be.”
S/He danced and sang with the Sun in a brilliant embrace.
S/He swung to Mercury and said “,You’re a quick one, you’ll mess with the message, but get it there.”
It’s time to go to the last all day session of the Market Entry Program. This is my homework, though I’ve failed to do it as suggested. I may have gotten into the program a little ahead of schedule. I definitely qualified by having no customers, but I also have no product. Thus I am mostly bringing my brain to market. However, maybe it has positioned me well for a different route.
Last week I got into my #1 competitor’s beta: Quora. This application is amazing and their name is way better than mine. I love that they share the same central idea in their product: No duplication of questions. There are some great strengths and obvious weaknesses to me, but I’ll save that post for later. Today I redo my go to market strategy for my non-existent prototype, which I can’t seem to start by myself. I keep saying I’m more of a fixer than a build-from-scratch guy, but maybe I should just get on with it. I’m definitely way behind these guys technically. I hope my story will catch their eye and we’ll talk about teaming up. Either way I’m sure we’ll talk eventually. (more…)
We are building a game of value. What does that mean? We see a distinct need for a neutral and engaging way to get all of us talking about our values. Here is some evidence of the gap identified at the world economic forum. The people of this planet have many deeply held beliefs, values, and opinions and Gaia wants to create a value management system to help us discuss them. The game part is in the mechanics, that filter and organize the content. The more you help out, the more prominence and influence you will wield, to promote the values you have. If this interests you, in even the slightest manner, we have a request. Select one of the four factions below that resonates for you and take action. Together we can shift the world and show our collaborative colors!
Are you a rebel?
Definition #2 To resist or defy an authority or a generally accepted convention.
Rebels want freedom. They want control over their destiny and choices. They want freedom from authority, rules, and restrictions. We love freedom and think our democracies would be much better served if we promoted and valued our rebels more. Marc Emery is a rebel who is currently locked up for selling seeds (a heinous crime indeed). What rule or authority are you railing against? (more…)
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