Ben Tremblay

Technology, business and change



Getting People To Care

Understanding why people don't care is usually a waste of time. Focusing on the ones who care is a wise investment.

Apple iPad: Marketing Strategy And Tech Blogs

Apple marketing did its job correctly when launching the iPad (Make you think it's an exceptional product). The troubling part is how the tech blogs over-hyped the whole thing.

What You Can (And Cannot) Be The Best At

What can we potentially do better than any other company, and, equally important, what can we not do better than any other company? And if we can’t be the best at it, then why are we doing it all?

- From the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins

This Month On TechCrunch (Just To Save You The Reading)

A month worth of posts summarized in a sketch: pre Apple Tablet world and post Apple Tablet world.

Getting The Wrong People To Like Your Content

Difference Between Passion And Obsession

Difference between passion and obsession. Passion: People admire you for it. Obsession: Too much. People think you're weird.

Classic New Media Business Model

Classic new media business model: offering every service we don't have a name for, so you can't judge the quality of my work.

What I Hate About Social Media

This is pretty straight forward, no need to explain this any further. [In the Drawing: "Real World, with real things happening", "OMG @BillGates is on twitter"]

Pleasing Search Engines (Or People)

What everybody really want is to please people. Everybody, if possible. Search engines are a nice backup plan though.

Creative Thinking Inside The Box

Thinking outside the box is overrated. Constraints exists and creative thinking inside the box is actually what matters.

Thinking outside the box is highly overrated: constraints exists in probably 99.9% of everything we do, whether we like it or not. This makes thinking outside the box very difficult, if not impossible, in most situations.

Creative thinking inside the box (the constraints) is essential and to me, a more important skill than thinking outside the box.

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