Maslow’s hierarchy of needs vs The Startup Pyramid

Can you spot the difference?



Cost of happiness

An Australian economist has put a prize tag on your life events.

Marriage
woman - £8, 726.25 man – £17, 675.68

Birth of child
woman – £ 4, 866.77 man – £18, 236.39

Divorce
woman - £4, 977.08 (loss) man – £61, 116.46 (loss)

Death of a loved one
woman – £73, 204.86 (loss) man - £350, 830.36 (loss)

Illness
woman – £28, 124.61(loss) man – £201, 264.68 (loss)

Moving house
woman – £1, 453.80 (gain) man – £8, 947.11 (loss)

Audit Your Energy

Dead obvious things you ought to be doing instead…

1. I don’t regularly get 7 to 8 hours of sleep and I often wake up feeling tired.
2. I frequently skip breakfast, or I settle for something that isn’t particularly healthy.
3. I don’t work out enough, meaning cardiovascular training at least 3 times a week and strength training at least once a week.
4. I don’t take regular breaks during the day to renew and recharge, and I often eat lunch at my desk.
5. I frequently find myself feeling irritable, impatient or anxious at work, especially when demand is high.
6. I don’t have enough time for my friends and family, and when I’m with them, I’m rarely “with them”.
7. I take too little time for the activities that I most deeply enjoy.
8. I rarely stop to express my appreciation to others, or to savor and celebrate my accomplishments and blessings.
9. I have difficulty focusing on one thing at a time and I’m easily distracted during my day, especially by email.
10. I spend much of my time reacting to immediate demands, rather than focusing on activities with long-term value and higher leverage.
11. I don’t take enough time for reflection, strategizing and thinking creatively.
12. I work in the evenings and/or the weekends and I rarely take a vacation free of work.
13. I spend too little time at work doing what I do best and enjoy the most.
14. There are significant gaps between what I say is important in my life and how I actually live.
15. My decisions at work are more often influenced by external demands than by a strong, clear sense of my own purpose.
16. I don’t invest enough time or energy in making a positive difference to others or in the world.

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Via Marelisa

Update: Achieve a productive state

Regret

How many regrets sound familliar to you?

1. Saying hurtful words during a heated argument.
2. Placing too much value on things.
3. Being too committed to a job.
4. Focusing so much on the future that you forget to live.
5. Not showing up when invited.
6. Discouraging others from following their dreams.
7. Using the word love when you don’t mean it.
8. Taking too few pictures of life’s happy moments.
9. Not listening during the know-it-all phase.
10. Holding a grudge.
11. Being too prideful to say “I’m sorry.”
12. Being too afraid to take a chance.
13. Accepting others beliefs as your own.
14. Crying over spilled milk.
15. Speaking faster than you think.
16. Overprotecting children.
17. Neglecting friends for lovers.
18. Acting based on past hurts and pains.
19. Gossiping.
20. Telling lies.
21. Doing anything that you have to lie about.
22. Being an enabler.
23. Tossing out memories of past relationships.
24. Choosing a job or career for the wrong reasons.
25. Neglecting your body.
26. Not speaking up.
27. Losing sight of the fact that life is supposed to be fun.
28. Not expressing your feelings to loved ones.
29. Holding back the tears.
30. Saying yes when you want to say no.
31. Borrowing things that you can’t pay back.
32. Not caring for your elderly parents the same way they cared for you.
33. Following all the rules.
34. Sticking to the plan.
35. Not saying thank you.
36. Taking for granted those dearest to your heart.
37. Impulse shopping.
38. Trying to do it all.
39. Worrying too much.
40. Remaining in a relationship for the kids (or for money, security, etc).
41. Knowingly causing harm to another person (emotionally or physically).
42. Forgetting to take care of your inner self.
43. Giving up.
44. Leaving (jobs, relationships, family) on bad terms.
45. Teaching children what to think instead of teaching them how to think.
46. Jumping into a relationship because of everything you like about a person.
47. Sheltering your heart too much after it has been broken.
48. Only doing what seems rational.
49. Betraying a friend.
50. Making promises that you cannot, or will not, keep.

Motivation is important

Make a product that costumers will actually use. Make the right thing easy and make the wrong thing hard.

You want your users to party because of you without you.

Update:

Four Reasons Why Motivation Is Important

1. Motivation helps you get started.
2. Motivation helps you keep moving.
3. Motivation makes you do more than necessary.
4. Motivation makes the journey fun.

How to Motivate Yourself

1. Have a cause
2. Have a dream. A big dream.
3. Be hungry
4. Run your own race – The only one you need to beat is you
5. Take one more step
6. Let go of the past

Reasons for demotivation

1. Lack of energy
2. Lack of clarity
3. You’re doing too much
4. Your system doesn’t work
5. You’re trying to function at 100%

Pursuit of happiness



Here is how you could go about defining happiness:

1. you need something to do
2. you need somebody to love
3. you need something to wait for

Here is a kicker:

Money makes you most happy if you don’t spend it on yourself.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER:

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

BARUCH SPINOZA:

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

DENIS WAITLEY:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT:

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

GEORGE SAND:

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

HELEN KELLER:

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Update: Lori has 10 reasons to tell why it is awesome it’s over.

Update: How to do what you love.

Update:

Secrets of Happy People

1. Forget the past
2. Take responsibility for your life
3. Build relationships
4. Develop multiple passions
5. Build your character
6. Be who you are
7. Live your life purpose
8. Count your blessing
9. Have positive mind
10. Work creatively
11. Start with what you have
12. Change
13. Use your talents
14. Beware of small things
15. Distill your ambitions
16. Make others happy
17. Practice compassion

Update:
Random thoughts to make it last:

Say “I love you.” Often
Make your spouse a priority. The kids will move away eventually.
Talk about shared memories
Have a time for just the two of you at least once a week.
Say, “I am sorry”
Say, “I forgive you”
Schedule sex if need be.
Say something nice every day.
Brag about your spouse to your friends, when your spouse can hear you.
Play
Focus on the positives
Compliment one another

Never get to the floor

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Fine without you now

So what’s up? This video actually says it all.

source

Go Schwarzenegger

Augmented Reality on Natural Shapes

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C# to HLSL

Jim has found a C# to HLSL compiler. Do you still think code is not data?

ThumbBl thumbB = new ThumbBl(canvas) {
  Background = Brushes.Blue, LeftTop = new PointBl(0,0), CanDrag = true
};
label.Effect.Custom = (input, uv) => {
  /*L1*/ PointBl p = label.RenderTransform.Inverse.
   Transform(thumbB.CenterPosition - label.LeftTop);
  /*L2*/ PointBl q = uv * label.Size;
  /*L3*/ DoubleBl d = (p - q).Length;
  /*L4*/ d = 1 - (d / 500).Min(1);
  /*L5*/ ColorBl clr = (d).Lerp(Colors.Black, Colors.Blue);
  /*L6*/ return ColorBl.FromScRgb
    ((input[uv].ScA).Min((1 - (d * d)).Max(.4)), clr.ScRGB);
};

TubeRadio

Games kill depression

Via Ben Lavender

Games kill boredom, alienation, anxiety, depression.

A Future Forecast:
In the next decade, we will
see more businesses and
organizations developing and
adopting customized alternate
realities , in order to create a
radically better way of doing, being,
acting and innovating in the real world.

A Future Forecast:

In the next decade, we will

see more businesses and

organizations developing and

adopting customized alternate

realities , in order to create a

radically better way of doing, being,

acting and innovating in the real world.

What do we mean by happiness?

• Having satisfying work to do
• The experience of being good at something
• Time spent doing something you like
• Being part of something bigger

Soon enough most of us will be in the happiness business.
Games designers have a good head start
Alternate realities signal the desire need & opportunity for us all to redesign reality for real quality of life.

[...] the presentation is available on SlideShare.

Also:

Discover Magazine has a great story by Eliza Strickland about Superstruct out today. You can read it online: “Forecasting the Future May be a Matter of Fun and Games.”

Be sure to check out this video:

‘MS.Win32.Penimc.UnsafeNativeMethods’ threw an exception

Yesterday I installed Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. All good.

Today I tried to run a WPF application. Crash!

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘MS.Win32.Penimc.UnsafeNativeMethods’ threw an exception. —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0×80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {14D4CBD9-7490-4F25-BAA6-1C5E22F6B1E3} failed due to the fo
llowing error: 80040154.
at MS.Win32.Penimc.UnsafeNativeMethods..cctor()

I needed to consult google to learn how to actually file a bug to microsoft. Oh and connect site does NOT work with Google Chrome.

Update: After a few days I created this forum thread.

This is by no means the first issue I have encountered with WPF. Previously I have seen WPF to become unresponsive just like the rendered is not there. I had to reboot to overcome that.

WPF is great, but it kind of fails once too much!

Update: Notified Jason about the issue.

Update: The fix looks like this at the time:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\WPF>regsvr32 PenIMC.dll

Do You Believe in the Users

If you make people feel dumb, they will hate you and go away!

Via webmomkey

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