by John Macdonald | Jun 28, 2024 | The250
We know the earth isn’t flat, but it’s useful to assume it is when building your patio.No history books detail a time in which the tortoise beat the hare, but it’s useful to assume it did when teaching about steady effort, overconfidence,... by John Macdonald | Jun 27, 2024 | AI, The250
The promise of the AI brand is that it will either save us/kill us all. It has done neither. Any time saved by AI has mostly been chewed up listening to breathless media reports on management (or lack thereof) drama at Microsoft AI (some... by John Macdonald | Jun 26, 2024 | The250
“What should we charge?” If you’re an established service, all you need is a calculator. You can use a simple equation based on costs and time.If you’re building a product, it’s probably not as simple an equation, but based on what the... by John Macdonald | Jun 25, 2024 | The250
We love to root for the little guy. When the big guy loses, it feels like justice. We’re excited at the unexpectedness, and we love to stick it to the man because the man is always out to get us and keep us down. Rock-n-roll might not exist without the... by John Macdonald | Jun 24, 2024 | The250
“We got 3 months.” Although the 3-month lens dooms many companies — or if not dooms, then at least shackles them in a cycle of short-sightedness and missed opportunities — it can also be exactly the catalyst that you need. Time is a sneaky... by John Macdonald | Jun 23, 2024 | The250
When I was a teenager, I had a plastic camera that took 110 film cartridges. I snapped random shots on our vacations or during the typical teenage events at the time. I always bought Kodak film cartridges. I didn’t know there were any other brands. You also knew...