“Seth Godin provided me with a copy of his new book, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick), and I think it will definitely get people to think about life. To give you a taste of what’s in the book, here’s an interview with Seth about the topics of perseverance and quitting,” Guy Kawasaki blogs for How to Change the World.
Here are two out of ten interetesing questions and answers (read the full article for the other eight Q&As):
Question: Should Microsoft quit the MP3 player market?
Answer: I thought they already did. They’re spending a lot of money, but they’re on a dead end. They always were. They saw the Dip, but instead of embracing it by completely reinventing what it meant to be an MP3 player, they just played it safe and made a piece of me-too.
When you copy something that’s already on the other side of the Dip, you’ve already lost. Microsoft “quit” the MP3 player market when they identified the wrong Dip. They picked the obvious, “safe” one—the one committees of people could live with, but one that is so big and so steep that even Microsoft doesn’t have the money to get through it.
Microsoft has a long history of sticking through Dips, and a long history of quitting dead ends. I have no idea what they’re thinking when it comes to the Zune, but it’s a dead end, through and through.
Question: Should Apple quit the personal computer market?
Answer: Apple has already crossed that Dip, big time. Not the “personal computer Dip” but the Dip of “style-conscious, designer’s, multimedia, student, family computer.” They’re the best in the world at that. They own it. They profit from it. Sure, if Steve hadn’t been arrogant, they could have been best in the world at a much bigger, much juicier market. But they’re not. Once they deal with that—and I think they mostly have—then they can erect a wall behind them, a bigger dip, one that prevents others from following. Over time, personal computers become a profitless commodity while Apple’s market just gets sexier, more fun, and more profitable.
There’s much more in the full article, including, for one example, “Should America quit the Iraq War?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Macaday” for the heads up.]
It is truely disgusting the things that you libs would say to someone over in Iraq protecting you. You libs should be thrown to the terrorists.
Don’t worry Hondo, a silent majority supports your efforts. Don’t listen to these bafoons.
Yeah, what Thorin said.
As far as Iraq, it doesn’t matter if you agree with why we went, or if we should just pull out, the reality is we are there, and leaving immediately would cause so much turmoil that it would make Beirut look like a day at Central Park.
So if we really wanted a solution in Iraq, we could get together on an idea like this
“Regarding Iraq, we could challenge that country’s government to re-legitimize the U.S. presence by voting to ask
U.S. forces to remain. If the government does not, the U.S. would leave. If it does, it should then encourage
voluntary ethnic rearrangements by establishing federalism — strong governments in all 18 provinces — where
Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds can cluster under governments of their kind. Then it should divide oil revenues, one-third
to the national government, one-third to the provincial governments and one-third to Iraqi individuals, much as
Alaska does with its oil trust fund.”
Even though this idea is being put forth by a Republican, he WAS four term governor of Wisconsin……
This guy is a huge dip.
Protecting me? Yeah, cause, ya know, all those terrorists could just show up on our shores at an moment. Of course, they’ll have to swim. Unless Iran has a navy that no one knows about. Or maybe they’ll just fly Terrorist Airlines.
But yeah, I’ll keep a look out for a bunch of arabs, swimming the Atlantic with bazookas on their backs.
You know, I have 2 very good friends in Bagdad at this moment. I’d like them to come home.
WizerGuy,
You have set back the Right just as far as George W. Bush did.
America needs 4 years of Democrat rule. That should swing things back to the Right and fix the damage Bush and his buddies have caused.
I doubt if WiserGuy is a troll. Sounds more like a believer to me. I don’t know why that sort of makes my day….
the bin ladin gang is not capaple of 911
please use any kind of thinking logic into it..how can a group of technologicaly handicaped arabs fly a modern jet airliner with that precision after a brief tranning on a mediocre cesns?????
bin ladin is a cia made organization to collect young arabs to fight the russian army in afganistan trained by the french inteligence and transported by the egyptians..and the plane that hit the pentagon didnot exist in the video of the many CCTV cameras around the pentagon.
you could try to figure a reason for 911..try the group who will benefit from transforming the arab world into the enemy of the state,oenning a new market for the military industry and keeping the dollar safe from collapsing after saddam announced he is using only euro for iraq oil eports and chaviz would follow suit he and saudi arabia ..
also the bush family financial records are very healthy after the barrel jumbed to a 60 dollar average after the war
think it over
I bet you’re going to follow that psycho Sherryl Crow’s advice and use only one sheet of toilet paper to stop global warming. You freaks have completely lost it. You’re absolutely nuts.
I bet.
Bull Shit egyptian non thinker,
I was there and I saw the planes come in and hit the World Trade Center. Nice try you nut case. You people are disgusting. Thank god for Bush. Go get them. We need to hit Iraq and Pakistan border next and hard. Get a clue libs.
Wiserguy’s headset has been screaming Bingo in his ear for three-quarters of a mile beyond the big dip.
henry
do u know anything about aeroplanes ..the whole world has seen the tragedy ,but if u can get me any evidence that the planes had been driven by those people from the alqaeda ..i will announce that i am wrong
but having some experience with air travel
i assure u NOBODY CAN DO AFEW MONTH TRANNING ON CESSNA 170 AND THEN FLY A 767
OR A 757 PERIOD
This thread has been a fun read. Combine one dickhead (Wiserguy) with grade two grammar writing skills, and people who have to…got to, must …reply to him then all the weirdo’s really come out (e.g. egyptian stinker). Use one piece of toilet paper?? hahahahah good one. Yup…can feel the planet getting cooler as I wipe with that one piece. Better to use an industrial strength piece because the last time I got a piece of ass was when my finger popped through that single sheet.
Everything I Know About The World I Learned From Sheryl Crow.
FACTS:
1-no WMD has been found in iraq
2-no dna evidence of any of the young men accused of 911 has been found?
3-some of them are ALIVE and has filed a law suit to clear thier names!!
4-not a single call with the victims has the voice of the accused?
5-a 757 crashes into the wall of the pentagon and not a single physical evidence to prove it?
no debries? even the grass around the wall is fine and green??
HOW
All I can say is the egyptian non thinker is really reaching for the stars. You libs are right behind him. State your facts dick head. Which accused are still alive and trying to clear their names? How the hell do you know what DNA evidence has been found you dirt ball. Do you think they would announce any facts to you you piece of garbage???? Go crawl back under your rock in your piece of shit cave scum bag.
Everyone knows the WMDs were moved out of Iraq to Iran and Syria.
Well, I’m convinced. We’re doomed.
Oh, and yes, MS should get out of the mp3 player market but luckily, for us, they won’t. Schadenfreude, it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
Tom Strong: “You neanderthal republicans need therapy. Or a bullet in the head. Your choice.”
Ah, the compassionate progressives. It’s amazing how you’re convinced of your moral superiority after having wished the death of almost one half of the American population based on their political beliefs. Tom Strong – you, sir, give me hope for a better tomorrow for all of our posterity. Tom Strong, model American.
I think we should all try to live our lives by Tom Strong’s rules. If you have a disagreement with someone – put a bullet in his head! Sure, why not. And hey, got a real jerk for a neighbor? Tell him that you hope he dies today. You know you do! Can’t we all just get along? HELL NO! Tom Strong says they’ve got two choices (1)therapy until they think just like you or (2)cranial led injection!
Congratulations Tom Strong for your progressive thinking and conflict management skills! I want to be just like you.
Thank you Hondo.
I was in Bahrain and Kuwait during the Iran and Iraq war and know exactly how it feels to be on the frontline while the folks back home exist in ignorance.
The problem is this, the US Military could inform the US public exactly what they are doing and inform the enemy in the process which they could then change tactics, prolonging a otherwise difficult job even further.
Liberal Demoncrats sized upon the ignorance of the US public to the war to further their political objectives.
Questions like:
1: Iraq didn’t attack the US
2: Iraq has no WMD’s
3: Bush is a idiot.
4: The war is only for oil.
5: It’s to make the Bush’s even richer. (playing on the poor’s discomtempt for the wealthy)
All these questions were custom designed and promoted to further Liberal political agendas, but fail in the face of logic, knowledge and reason. They are designed to play upon the less intelligent portion of our population.
If the questions are answered soundly, a excuse is made so the source is discredited.
Exampe: “You can’t believe that, “xxx” is part of “yyyy” and they have a agenda.”
Or a fear tatic is used:
Example: “You can’t beleive what “zzzz” says because deep down he’s against (welfare, immigration, gay rights etc etc.)
Liberal demoncrats: Fooling some of the people, some of the time.
“George Bush hates Mac people.”
ROTFLMAO! TT you just might be the funniest guy here.
You are a Republican fool.
While you fools believed Nixon and thought we’d win Vietnam, Nixon was quoted on his own secret tapes, telling Kissinger that the war was lost – and they must never admit that to the American people. They pimped you.
Despite that, Vietnam is STILL a Communist country and we are now trade partners with them. The sky didn’t fall.
Iraq was not a threat to the U.S. They had no real military and no WMD. When Saddam killed the Kurds in the 80’s, we looked the other way. Human Rights Watch and the UN condemned us for that. But Reagan didn’t care. Don’t act like Saddam’s evil kept you Repubs up at night. You didn’t care.
Now you do care, because Americans are dying for no reason in Iraq. Soldiers get in their Humvees and ride around at night, hoping some dumb insurgents will shoot at them so we can attack them. We have no idea where they are. We are fighting the whole Iraqi population. And 99.99% of our soldiers don’t speak Arabic and can’t even read the street signs.
Privately, top Repubs and top military men have admitted that the war is all but lost. Yet they destroyed our military. I mean, think about it: our freaking National Guard is serving in a war!!! Our National Guard is supposed to be here in the US! USarmy is now accepting felons, applicants with prior drug use, and they just relaxed the age requirement, again – because we’re desperate.
As always, we Democrats will drag you Republican scumbags, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.
After you Repugs caused the Great Depression, FDR bailed you out. We Democrats planned and fought and won World War 2. Democrat Truman finished off the Japanese threat. Kennedy averted the Cuban Missile Crisis that you blunderers caused with the Bay of Pigs. Clinton gave us the first American economic surplus in ages and won the Kosovo War without a single casualty.
And soon, the next Democratic President will bail us out of the Iraq fiasco and will get us on the path to alternative energy, so we can leave the Mideast forever.
While you dumb Repub scumbags deny global warming, the Chinese and Japanese are working hard on solar, hydrogen, and electric powered cars so they can get off Mideast oil for good. They’re doing this behind the scenes and they’re making great gains. Meanwhile, you Repubs are bankrupting our country, the dollar is at an alltime low, the stock market is crawling (Dow should be 15,000 when adjusted for inflation) and gas prices are near $3 again.
Clinton gave us the greatest period of stability and prosperity this country has ever seen. Bush will go down as worst president ever, and a loser of two (maybe three) wars. HAHAHAH LOL
Wiserguy:
As always, we Democrats will drag you Republican scumbags, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.
We Democrats own you. For without us, you would not exist.
We Democrats won all the major wars this country has fought in. World War 2, Kosovo.
You Republicans have lost all the other wars – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
After you Repugs caused the Great Depression, FDR bailed you out.
We Democrats gave your parents Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
We gave you the 40 hour work week (instead of the 60 hr week under Repubs)
We passed Child labor laws, so children wouldn’t be forced to work.
We passed laws forcing employers to give you health insurance.
We passed the unemployment compensation law, so when you lose your job, you have some money.
We are behind the 2 largest economies in this country – California and NYC.
We created and funded Silicon Valley and yes, the Internet that you’re typing on.
We won Kosovo without a single casualty.
We own Hollywood.
We started and still own the Ivy League colleges.
We gave women and blacks the right to vote, while you fought against it.
We averted the Cuban Missile Crisis that you blunderers caused with the Bay of Pigs.
Clinton gave us the first American economic surplus in ages and won the Kosovo War Meanwhile, you Republican thumbsuckers will sit in your soiled diapers wondering why you Red State fools are always behind:
Lowest in literacy, infant mortality, highest divorce rate, highest welfare rate (yes), but best in NASCAR watching. And yeah, best in Republicans that were forced to quit or were indicted/convicted/jailed in any administration in American history.
I would love to see the country divided in Red States and Blue States. It is obvious who would have the better economy, better health, better colleges, better literacy, better jobs, better looking women, etc. More expensive houses, modern technology, etc.
I dare you to state otherwise. Dummy.
“and a loser of two (maybe three) wars. HAHAHAH LOL”
That says volumes.
“Kennedy averted the Cuban Missile Crisis that you blunderers caused with the Bay of Pigs.”
My God, you have no clue, do you? Might check your dates there.
“Clinton gave us the first American economic surplus in ages and won the Kosovo War without a single casualty.”
the Legislative branch appropriates money, not the Executive branch.