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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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January 4
“ Fear mongering is a lousy profession, one that ought to be regulated, if not banned. I’m more in favor of hope mongering. 2010 is the year that the world will change. In fact, every year is that year, but this is the only time we’ll get to change the world this time. Seth Godin - Seth’s Blog: Is there a fear shortage?
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December 10
Seth's Blog: The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations

So true!!
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November 24
Seth's Blog: Rupert Murdoch has it backwards

I’m with Seth on this one!

If you don’t know what all the fuss is about, read this: Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns

or this: Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
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October 7

0% of a really big number is still zero.

Charles Blow reports in the NY Times that:

“A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs. That’s less than one percent of the songs.”

read Seth’s full post here Seth’s Blog: Less than zero

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September 18

The hierarchy of success - Seth Godin

“I think it looks like this:

  1. Attitude
  2. Approach
  3. Goals
  4. Strategy
  5. Tactics
  6. Execution

We spend all our time on execution. Use this word instead of that one. This web host. That color. This material or that frequency of mailing. Big news: No one ever succeeded because of execution tactics learned from a Dummies book.”

… Read the rest of this brilliant post by Seth Godin here:

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September 12
The problem with positive thinking Great blog post by Seth Godin - as usual! Like this bit… “Key question then: why do smart people engage in negative thinking? Are they actually stupid?” … (via Seth’s Blog: The problem with positive thinking)

The problem with positive thinking

Great blog post by Seth Godin - as usual!

Like this bit… “Key question then: why do smart people engage in negative thinking? Are they actually stupid?” …

(via Seth’s Blog: The problem with positive thinking)

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