Are you the kind of person who is constantly looking for the optimal solution to things? Whether it’s about what to eat or where to live? Chances are you are less happy than those who are “satisficying”. To satisfice doesn’t mean always choosing the not-so-good thing. There can be certain criteria to be met for that too. Satisficers have time to enjoy themselves whereas optimizers are just never, or at least not very often, content.

See this post: http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2006/07/happiness-data.html

I’m thinking was thinking about this in a business perspective. Too much optimization and you’ll just never get anything done. Others will outrun you big time. Satisficers on the other hand should be able to do a good job. They are moving fast and finding solutions that are good enough. But if attention to detail is important to what they do, then they might not be that well off.

Next week we are going to be making some changes to our music catalogue that we feel are important to communicate clearly. Unfortunately we are going to be removing a number of songs from our catalogue and adding country restrictions to some tracks, which may make them unplayable for you. Read more ->

Spotify announced that they are now going to put restrictions on their music library. What a drawback. I’m only going to repeat what I’ve said before. They are still stuck in the 20th century. Time to move on, people..

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When you think about it, there are a lot of web services and software that just never gets out of “beta”. Even though they at times charge the same amount that was going to be charged when it’s released. It’s like everyone is scared of saying it’s a live 1st version. “What if it crashes or won’t work and we call it v.1?” Big deal.

It’s like if Volvo would start selling a new car, calling it V90 Beta. Then when the journalist asks them why they would say something like “Yeah, we’re not sure yet if the breaks are completely ok, but let’s see.”

I just think that either you release something and charge for it, or you stick with beta until you are comfortable with the service/software and then start charging. If you need money, then ask people to donate and give something back to them.

Happen to be on nytimes.com and then seeing a word you have never before seen? Use your mouse to select it and a small question mark image will appear. Click it and you get a pop-up with the word explained. The service is provided by Answers.com. I’m not sure if it’s new I just played around while reading. Definitely a useful feature.

Screenshot of the reference library feature on NYTimes.com

Happy New Year! Here is a link to Vator.tv where they have an article/video about lessons learned in 2008:

Check it out!