XTRP is one of the models used for Hurricane tracking. While I agree projecting a hurricane’s future path is complicated, it seems like XTRP has thrown in the towel and just started drawing a line up and to the left. (XTRP is the model with the black triangles and dotted lines).
Most recent models for Hannah:
Most recent models for Ike:
Doing some further research it appears that XTRP is just the Hurricane’s most recent movements projected forward. In other words, a very simple model that takes no future variables into account.
Do yourself a favor and join Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis’s new mailing list.
I know, I also thought mailing lists were dead but, weirdly, Jason retired from blogging. He now sends out fantastic and practical essays on technology entrepreneurism through his mailing list. Despite the list being just a few months old, he’s already sent out some must-read essays including:
PR Strategies for Start-Ups
- Rule number one of interacting with a journalist: you NEVER have to bring up what you’re doing
- Be in love with your brand; wear a t-shirt with your company’s brand every day
- Your office space should be a personification of your company’s mission
- Exactly how a CEO should e-mail and speak to a journalist
How to Demo Your Start-Up Company – Part 1
- Show your product within the first 60 seconds
- Talk about what you’ve done, not what you’re going to do
- How to handle questions you don’t know the answer to
How to Demo Your Start-Up Company – Part 2
- Use inclusive words like “we”, instead of “you”
- Four methods to start your demo
- Repeat your slogan five times in your presentation
You can find standard advice on these topics all over the Internet, but Jason does a fantastic job of giving you intelligent and practical advice. Get on this mailing list.
If you have been stalking on Facebook lately, you have noticed that the advaned profile search lets you specify what year a person graduated but not what school they went to. Weird and annoying.
But, nothing to fear fellow stalkers, you can actually narrow down by the school people went to. It’s not a facebook feature, it’s a very simple facebook hack.
Perform an advaned profile search as you normally would in your geographic network. When the results come up, and you only want to see people who went to Emory, then you just add “&ed=Emory” (without the quotes) to the end of the page’s url and hit enter. Voila, the results are now filtered by school as well.
If the college you are looking for has a space in the name, like Penn State, then you just add “&ed=Penn+State”.
Get all your stalking done before Facebook fixes this.
Amidst a river of mostly useless tweets, twitter account vctips stands out as a must read full of good to great nuggets of advice for entreprenuers thinking about venture capital.
It’s just starting out, but look at these tweets from some of the more respected members of the VC community:
- Don’t approach a VC directly unless you know him/her well — an introduction from someone the VC trusts will go a long way
- Six slides is better than sixty and probably better than sixteen. Put all the detail in the appendices
- As a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand slides. Show, don’t tell
Of course you can always conitnue to read tweets about how people are sleepy or just bored.
After about a year and a half of wresting with David Allen’s critically-acclaimed self-help book, Getting Things Done, I can confidently say that the recommended organization system is impossible to keep up with for all but the most impressively disciplined / insanely masochistic amongst us.
Was it all a waste of time? The answer would probably be yes except there is one simple and completely realistic piece of advice in the book that dramatically improved my efficiency. I now recommend it to everyone:
- If you find out you need to do something that will take you less than two minutes to complete, do it right there and then
That’s it. Simple and realistic.
If you don’t take care of that small task immediately, it will sit in the back of your mind and rot. You will spend many more minutes constantly reminding yourself of having to take care of it instead of creatively thinking about your business / life. Also, reminding yourself of things you have to do are not exactly “happy” thoughts. Eventually, you will either end up taking care of it or, more likely, forgetting about it all together.
Do yourself a favor and start taking care of those 2 minute tasks as soon as you become aware of them. I briefly flirted with the idea of raising the bar to 5 minutes, but it almost killed me.
