Ed Dowding

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Category: Books

Art of the Start

The Art of Starting Make meaning Ask women Get going The Art of Positioning Seize the high ground Make it personal Niche thyself The Art of Pitching Explain in the first minute Answer the little man 10 slides Title Problem Solution Business model Underlying magic Marketing and sales Competition Team Projections Status and timeline 20 [...]

A Brief List of Epiphanies

A great list at Amazon:  “A Brief List of Epiphanies”

How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land that you can imagine)

Notes from the book, taken 10-12 Feb 2010. Bed Preparation Good structure and balanced / plentiful nutrients allow for uninterrupted growth First year you do it, allow 1 hour per 1m2 Second year onwards, allow 30 mins per 1m2 Ongoing maintenance is about 1.5 mins per 1m2 Initial Preparation Perform a soil test Soak with [...]

The old models don’t work

I’m cracking into a great book called “The Age of the Unthinkable”. It seems that the longer I wait before writing the book I want to write, the more other people are likely to do it in my place. The fundamental points in this one are thoughts I’ve been thinking since I was about 14. [...]

Nudge: Rational man

I’ve been reading Nudge of late. It’s a book about rational man (doesn’t really exist) vs irrational man (does exist, is us). To demonstrate these points it presents a few examples and mental exercises to show how we should behave vs how we do behave. And in each of these I choose the rational answer. Which is odd, [...]