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Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile

I hope to be more prolific in a few months, but my current professional life is quite busy. Consequently, sharing great content is my only way to feed this blog.  From TED "When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count. " Thanks Didier for sharing this link.

Seth Godin on standing out

Among the TED thousand videos, "Seth Godin on standing out" will be kept to the top of the charts for a long time. Find here below his presentation talking about "beeing remarquable" a suject developped in is book : Purple Cow . Have a look to the other videos classified by domesticatingit. Some of them really deserved your attention. Souces : Domesticating : Top 5 TED Talks for Inbound Marketers | Jon DiPietro is Domesticating IT

Lean startups

Through Shmula , I went to the Eric Ries' You Tube channel and I watched two of his interviews done by Scobleizer : The Lean Startup, Part I/II". Eric Ries writes startuplessonslearned.com and has popularised the term "Lean Startups. At the beginning of his interview Eric establishes the software context: Compared to the traditional industries, this discipline has no physical constraints. Consequently the developers' imaginations are directly translated into a real product. Eric has ten years experience as an entrepreneur and he saw so many talented people building software that nobody wanted. So he digs the concept of Lean start-up from his research to help entrepreneurs test their ideas right from the beginning of their activity. At the beginning of a start up, Eric would: Have a vision to change the world, Test elements of his vision on customers, Have a Problem Team, a part of the company dedicated to understand what customers' problem they try to s...

Canyoning at Castellane (Verdon, France)

While this blog contains everything around my professional concerns, I would like to give some feedback in the language of Shakespeare about two smart guys, the type of people who mix fun with quality. They are the "Bureau des guides de Canyoning" at Castellane (Verdon, France). Find here their web site and Facebook account . While twenty years ago, mountain climbing was the central fashionable activity in these gorges, today, there is a larger diversity of sports/activities proposed. Agrandir le plan Between the familly rafting and the steep cliff climbing, you can spend a half or full day in a ravine canyoning. As this is still a new activity, crazy people, without knowledge, could bring themselves, their friends or familly into a dangerous situation because they didn't evaluate the potential risks. As when making a simple trip in the mountain, without at least, reading the forecast, canyoning has several well known real diffuclties: Canyoning picked-up ma...

James Hamilton at Velocity 2010

I'm a big fan of James Hamilton'blog (Perpective) , because his material has a high value. Before going through his posts, you may watch the following 20 minutes video from Velocity 2010 , where the most important technical trends of the Datacenter world are presented. His slides are available here and the last one provides links to all the important blog posts, he talks in his show. Enjoy. Sources: Perspectives : Perspectives - Velocity 2010