Being Mark Cohen

This week Tony Hsieh’s story hits the proverbial shelves in the form of his new book “Delivering Happiness”. I’ve been fascinated by Tony Hsieh and the business approach taken by Zappos for some time, and so I signed up to the Delivering Happiness blogger program to get my hands on a prerelease copy of the book  

The book itself covers some great ground and describes in detail where Tony came from and how entrepreneurial he was in his youth. I loved and identified the stories about how he tried to start businesses to make money as a kid and was blown away by the realization that the last fourteen years of his working life have pert much amounted to yields of capital generated to the order of a hundred million dollars a year.  Wish I could say the same!

The book describes some great details about why customer care is important and talks broadly about the philosophies that made Zappos into the company they are and made them such an appeal acquisition for Amazon

The team that backed the book are on Twitter at @dhbook and there is a supporting site at http://www.deliveringhappinessbook.com

The book is on amazon at http://www.amazon.com/deliveringhappiness

I also have an extra copy of the book, available to someone in Australia. Leave a comment saying why you want it and I’ll pick someone to send it to. 

I often put my little guy into bed at bedtime and when work hasn’t consumed all my energy I like to have a little left to read with him.  As it’s school holidays my wife took the kids to the library and stocked up on books.  So tonight we had a choice and we decided to read Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr Seuss.

When we got to the end of the book my little guy saw two blank pages.

“Blank page” he declared.  He flipped the page.

“Another blank page” he said, and flipped again.

“More blank pages” he said as he flipped a few more.

He closed the book and put it down.  He thought for a while and then then said “I think Dr Seuss forgot to finish this book”.

“Maybe…” I replied, choking on a laugh.

“It’s too bad because now he’s dead.” He told me earnestly.

At which point I lost my self-control and he wanted to know why I was laughing about something so serious.

He makes a good point though.  It would be very sad to run out of time before your book is finished.

I bought the Macheist nanoBundle 2 – which ends tomorrow – and one of the apps in it is an app called MacJournal. I just noticed that it can publish to a blog, which would make it a handy offline blogging tool if it works. If you’re reading this then it does

They’ve just thrown Tweetie for Mac into the bundle. It’s a nice Twitter client but won’t be winning me over from Echofon. Funnily enough, I bought Tweetie 2 for the iPhone and haven’t gone back to Echofon on the iPhone​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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If you’re using Entourage this is how you move your appointments to Exchange from local folders:

1. Fire up Entourage

2. Click on Calendar in the toolbar

3. Click on “All events” under Calendar Views

4. Click on an event, and then click the edit menu, then “select all”:

4. Then right-click on a highlighted appointment and on the popup menu choose “move to” and then choose your Exchange Calendar:

NOTE this may look  like it’s frozen as it moves the meetings across.  Leave it to run for as long as it takes.

Mark

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