Uncategorized Flow and work 25 November 2011 / 26 November 2011 by adamf | Leave a Comment Flow is a state of consciousness where a person is “fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”. There is a TED talk by Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi on the subject. It is about 20 minutes and very interesting. It covers the same material that is in […] Read more »
Uncategorized Culture Hacking 20 November 2011 / 20 November 2011 by adamf | 3 Comments on Culture Hacking Culture Hacking is the systematic design and implementation of team practices, commitments, and viewpoints that yield desired results. In other word, it’s about hacking your own culture. This is an idea I got from Jim McCarthy. Culture Hacking is an art. It’s also an empirical process – you have to make a change, see what […] Read more »
Uncategorized Ways To Get What You Want 12 November 2011 / 14 November 2011 by adamf | Leave a Comment Getting what you want is the essence of leadership, and that is what I want to talk about in this article. I wrote it for my partner Lena when we had some difficult conflict to resolve. I thought it might be useful for other people. But before I get to what to do, I want […] Read more »
Uncategorized Legendary 10 August 2011 / 12 November 2011 by adamf | 2 Comments on Legendary We believe we can make a difference. We create legendary teams that call forth genius as needed. We believe these legendary teams will make a significant positive difference in the world. We believe legendary teams can create and implement technologies, businesses, and organizations that make the lives of billions of people significantly better. We believe […] Read more »
Uncategorized Ending Poverty With Software paper in Open Source Business Resource 3 December 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment My paper on Mifos was published today in the online journal Open Source Business Resource: We believe that software and business are two key elements for solving poverty. First, we do not assert that software alone is enough to end poverty – poverty has many factors, and eradicating it will require many innovations. Rather, we […] Read more »
Uncategorized Entrepreneur’s Top 10 Legal Mistakes (and how to correct them) 9 November 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment Here’s a short guide I wished I would have had when starting out as an entrepreneur. All these could be my #1 item, I’ve made all of them at one point or another or else been a principal in a company where the situation arose to my detriment. If I had to pick a top […] Read more »
Uncategorized What We Look For In Founders 23 October 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment Paul Graham has a new, great short article on what Y Combinator looks for in founders. Here’s the summary: Determination Flexibility Imagination Naughtiness Friendship Note that these are also key characteristics of great teams! All the points are good, but I especially want to quote from the section Naughtiness, since it’s something you don’t see […] Read more »
Uncategorized Team Greatness 10 October 2010 by adamf | 1 Comment on Team Greatness I recently posted a new essay on team greatness: Something is known about how people become individually great. Richard Hamming gave a famous talk on that subject, You and Your Research. While his talk was about the problem of individual greatness, he acknowledged that groups or teams have the potential to become great also. This […] Read more »
Uncategorized Software For Your Head book available online 3 October 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment The Software For Your Head book by Jim and Michele McCarthy is now available on the Live In Greatness website! This is the book that got me started on the Core Protocols. For those that haven’t read it, here’s a bit about it: At least once in their lives, most people experience the incomparable thrill […] Read more » Core Protocols
Uncategorized Ending Poverty With Software 4 September 2010 by adamf | Leave a Comment Matthew Russell recently interviewed me about Mifos for the PayPal X Developer Network. This came about because Adam Monsen, Van Mittal-Henkle, and I gave a talk called “Ending Poverty with Software” at OSCON 2010. I don’t believe that only software can end poverty. But if we want to reach the 2-3 billion people in poverty, […] Read more »