Mike Schorah

I absolutely love  my Macbook Air with OS X. I flip up the lid, type in my password, and within seconds I'm working. No waiting for the device to spin up out of hibernation. But I'm beginning to think that I get more concentrated work when I'm using iOS on the iPad or iPhone. Whatever I'm working on takes up the whole of the screen automatically. So I focus more easily without the distractions of a Twitter feed in the corner of the desktop, or a notification badge for another email to read, or a browser tab just a click away... We no longer 'just' watch TV. We always have a second, or a third, screen to hand. On the one hand I convince myself that I am able to multi-task; on the other I fret that my ability to concentrate on a single task without distractions is diminishing. So, Macbook's going to sleep for the rest of the day. I'm going to do everything I need to do today from the iPad and see just what impact that has on my concentration on the m...

A friend of mine asked for some war stories of entrepreneurship over a couple of beers. My best advice was to point him in the direction of Eric Ries super book, almost a manual, certainly a must-read ... The Lean Startup . At its heart, though, my experience is one of focusing on a few simple principles: In addition to the necessary and sufficient test , and turning Weaknesses into Strengths , we actively use our geography to help us. And it's really all about having the right attitude . We can see problems as obstacles, or as hurdles to be overcome. I no longer expect problems to disappear, but to change and be replaced by new things. Provided that the challenges are changing then, crudely, we're making progress! Get more like this