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My First PechaKucha Attendance

Pecha Kucha Cape Town [https://www.pechakucha.org/cities/cape-town] 47. I’ve wanted to attend one of these nights for a long while. As the compère (more of him later) informed us – with an origin story slightly different to the wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha] entry – the

Have You A BFR For Your Mars Shot Like Elon Musk?

Who needs oodles of charisma to present, when what you’re presenting about is the topic with perhaps most charisma oodling out of it on the planet, or in this case, off it? Approaching six months on, the above three-quarter hour presentation [with a transcript here [http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/

When Even A Balinese Medicine Man Uses A 2x2 Shouldn't You?

[www.sonypictures.com/movies/eatpraylove/] Yes, this is a fictionalised account. From a 2010 adapted-from-a-memoir movie starring Julia Roberts; Eat Pray Love. Yet a recent post (around ‘rebalance [http://salespodder.com/can-you-rebalance/]‘) reminded me to check out this specific scene. It’s around 1hr 42mins in. Ketut Liyer is a

Planet of the Apps Pilot Pointers

[https://www.planetoftheapps.com/en-us] Much media chatter surrounded Apple’s first foray into “content”. They say they’ll spend a staggering $1bn [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-16/apple-said-to-plan-1-billion-investment-in-tv-shows-and-films] on their first year of tv output (the beeb muddles by [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/

Jen Sincero Badassery

I was always going to struggle with this. The second in what might likely become a franchise of authoring [https://jensincero.com/]s imploring that You Are A Badass. This follow-up is worryingly subtitled, Master the Mindset of Wealth. From the outset, let me state that my cynicism surrounding the

Dam Busters Spirit

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)] I watched this movie on a cold, damp and grey Sunday afternoon in England recently. It’s been maybe twenty years since I last saw it, and what a pleasure it was to be refreshed by its inspiration. I sense a

How's Your Pitch Compare With Pied Piper's First?

our only glimpse of the embryonic startup app landing page interface -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hit TV show Silicon Valley. Series One, Episode One; “Minimum Viable Product”. If you’re unfamiliar with the premise, introvert coder Richard spends his spare time outside working for a tech giant trying to develop an app of

Haggle Like Lord Of War To Defend Price

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/12/liberianpresinmovie.jpg] Nic Cage stars in 2005 biopic, Lord Of War, potrraying the life of an arms dealer. The above pic is of a particularly nasty chap he supplies; Liberian President Baptiste. At one point we see the brutal dictator ask for

Embrace Your Quirks The Manhattan Home Selling Way

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/04/eklund-tie-with-j-lo-400x300.jpg] In a land long ago I was in a meeting. I broke into song. There was a time when I was always singing. Then I juggled three marker pens. Until they quickly went flying across the room. My enthusiasm for

Johan Norberg - Progress (2016)

This is not a Sales text. It is in the author’s mind a rebuttal to the flood of negative news that suggest the world is in mega-crises. Every pitch of progress a portent of peril. Not simply an updated call to Enlightenment, compiler Norberg posits ten core areas where