"Companies don’t get killed by competition, they usually find creative ways to commit suicide. Office 2010 will be the end of Zoho, if we stop innovating, stop being nimble and flexible in our business model. Then again, if we stop all that, Zoho will die anyway, no Office 2010 needed to do the job."

Zoho, on Office 2010 as a direct competitor

I live in fear

Derek Sivers’ post entitled ‘I assume I’m below average’ has been making the rounds in the last couple of days. His post struck a nerve with me, since I have always had a similar but slightly different philosophy.

I live in fear. Not quivering-in-the-back-of-the-closet, sucking-my-thumb-late-at-night kind of fear. Fear that my competitors, with their mountains of cash, are secretly working on making their product awesome so they can destroy me. Fear that they are better than it than I am. Fear that my customers are currently evaluating whether my product is worth renewing for another year. Fear that they will suddenly realize they are working with this tiny little shitty company of mine. Fear that there’s some new technology that makes mine obsolete.

Recognizing and dealing with that fear makes me way better at what I do.

The office. Working from home isn’t typically as good as it sounds. But today, yes.

Resurrection

Been working so heads-down for the past two years, haven’t been blogging. This is my half-assed attempt to get it going again. Stay tuned.

Oh, and I decided to delete all my previous posts (which were just random postings from Delicious and Twitter). How to bulk delete 700 posts from Tumblr? Ruby to the rescue. Via.