If you have not already done so, please expand your context and increase your financial IQ.

See if you can get this book at your local library. If they don’t have it. Request it immediately. How to increase your context. While you are waiting for that book sign up for a fresh Mint dot com account.

October 2, 2009 | No comments

There is a great little app out there that tracks your Internet history called Personas. Simple and easy to use.

Design is easy. Good design is easy. Great design is even easier.

“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso

Design isn’t just about how things look or how things work. Anyone that adds design on top of a finished product to make it better cannot have a great design. It must be thought out and refactored from the starting process.

Now good design should also be innovative. There are certain requirements of functionality that everyone should take when they design.

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    • Completeness
    • Usability
    • Robustness
    • Efficiency

Or as I like to call it “The Cure” Not to be confused with the artist whose famed for “Friday I’m in Love” title along with many others.

Those that are able to adapt best to their surrounding will always come out on top. I felt for a while that I was missing something that I wasn’t in the right place at the right time for some reason. The reason was “me.” Once I found this out I did some refactoring.

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    • Scalability – able to grow with any size in any situation
    • Readability
    • Reusablility
    • Simplicity
    • Maintainability – along with that is should be easy to fix.
    • Extensibility

    In order not to become another cargo cult there should another basic understanding.

    Picasso’s quote was  more than likely stolen from:

    “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
    the good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” -T.S. Elliott

    Design should be a part of your everyday life. This may take some trial and error, but it will be well worth it if you start now.

    September 25, 2009 | No comments

    Let me tell you a little about myself.

    If we begin with the end in mind, then would you write your obituary?

    “I know you believe you heard what you thought I said, but is what you heard what I really meant?” – Alan Greenspan

    I am very interested in spectacle of life. I am an Eagle Scout from Troop 30. Bicycles and public transportation are my main modes of transportation. Even though I do have my “Howdy Honda” Civic I enjoy the road under my two wheels. I am a pragmatic programmer with a contagious positive attitude. Everyday I look and enjoy the fact that every one of on the street, block, city, world is so different from one to the next. I like people and they like me. You will find me always helping others to the best of my ability. If I am unable to help someone out I immediately find someone who can. I am very adaptable to change. If I’m not having fun what is the point. I do everything full force. I have an unspoken integrity and I am visibly honest. I concentrate on the details with out getting caught up in them. Life takes me everywhere I want to go.

    There is a market for everything and anything that you can think of. I am very interested in the prospect of money and how to keep a positive cash flow. If there is one thing that I can do best it is handling money. My next venture is always a great one. I do think there is a difference in being promised money and being given money. I am only interested in the latter. I always come out on top and grab the gold.

    If you would like to see me I will be beaming with radiance.

    My Obituary:
    Born Michael Zyon McCalley Scott. He was a wonderful human being. He died at the age of 97, but acted like he was 50. He was known by many as Zyon. He knew many people who considered him family. His integrity was unmatched and he was as sharp as he was witty.

    Zyon took a liking to many things. He enjoyed hiking the 23.9 Miles of the Grand Canyon. He enjoyed running several marathons including becoming one of the top 1,000 in the Boston Marathon by the age of 40. He made a living at being an entreprenuar and succeeded at being alffluent at the age of 30. He did this by helping more and more people with less and less work.

    Zyon’s message to the worlds was “Love and Respect.”

    September 18, 2009 | No comments

    How to work a Crowd is easy and fun to do. All you need is one little seed. It’s what we all have been doing for generations all summed up into five minutes.

    September 11, 2009 | No comments

    The Fitzkee Books are now available IN REPRINT! I’m asking these for X-mas!

    “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” – Goethe

    September 4, 2009 | No comments

    Working on projects, working full time, and eating Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches make this recession flow with the wind.

    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin

    September 4, 2009 | No comments

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