Unfortunately it’s not sustainable if it’s not your product; once you stop selling you stop making money.

Making a valuable product is sustainable and could eventually make you a lot of money; unfortunately you won’t know the result until much later.

Owning a portion of a valuable product is a way to hedge your bets. You can make a lot of sustainable income without all that wait time.

Are you an owner, partial owner, or seller of a product or service.

Once you’ve decided what heaven would like to you, you can spend your days heading in that direction.

The same happens with work sometimes. You come into the office, start something and then wander your way into another project, if you’re disciplined you finish at least one project, else you end up starting lots of projects and probably finishing none.

This post has less to do with discipline and more to do with choosing your rabbit hole. By starting at work at least you stayed within the domain of work “hopefully.” So if you want to get something done, choosing a project that is closely related is probably the best way to go if you’re not ready to spear head your project just yet. The likelyhood that you wonder into your project is high and if it isn’t well then you’ve accomplished something else doesn’t include a post guilty party.

Some of the rabbit holes I attempt to choose are personal maintenance, home maintenance [boring; i know], my blog, my side projects, reading books on my list. The idea — once again — is that if you get bored or distracted along the way you’re more likely to wander into something as productive. Reading a book might spawn an idea and end up a post, or writing a post might have me questioning my layout and start tinkering with the design, tinkering the design might give me ideas for my side projects etc …

Rabbit holes to avoid: television, youtube [which is for the most part the same as former], pretty much visiting any site that provides little value.

A person today would have to live 1700 years to watch all YouTube videos currently available – a rabbit hole that will out live you.

In all honesty I’m excited. Our code is visible to the thousands of talented developers of this world and I can’t wait for the learning to occur.

http://github.com/tendenci/tendenci

I’m also excited to see what will become of Tendenci and how the community will transform this CMS.

More customers will get to experience Tendenci than ever before. Looking forward to the solutions that lie ahead and the needs that get filled with this product.

Waiting patiently for the future.

Best Buy Closing 50 Locations

Being able to touch something and physically experience a product is a feature in itself that is gaining more and more value, but at what cost?

As online stores become more and more popular, physical locations will be forced to shutdown because of the overhead costs to keep the store up.

How do you provide a physical location, but stop people from testing your products and then going somewhere else for a better value. It’s as if the customer has stolen your experience only to make their purchase somewhere else.

Physical stores cannot compete at the same price range as online stores because of the overhead online stores have managed to remove, giving them more wiggle room for profits and allowing them to pass on those savings to their customers.

The only way to provide a physical store is to own the property that you’re selling at a price point that does not move no matter which storefront it is. Case in point, Apple.

This post is in regards to the 50 Best Buy stores that will be closing soon. How does a commodity store like Best Buy compete with someone like Amazon.

You’ve seen it and you may even be guilty of it. You go to Best Buy play with a product and once you’re convinced it’s right for you, you pull out your smart phone and find a better price. You place your order and patiently wait a couple of days.  You have now received the best of both worlds at the expense of the physical store.

Life. Is made up of moments.

That’s it.

Most of the time we get caught up in responsibilities. We get caught up in those expectations assumed by others.

Showing up to work on time, meeting deadlines, paying bills, budgeting, watching what we eat, going to events that we’re expected to go to, visiting people we’re expected to visit.

Then you wake up and realize you haven’t done any of the things you have want to do.

Only you never bothered deciding what exactly you wanted to do. You never bothered because there wasn’t enough time or there wasn’t enough budget.

Life is about moments. The stuff you do in between are just a vehicle to your next moment.

Try to have more moments and spend less time driving to that moment.