Evanalyze

I realized yesterday that I’m almost incapacle of doing anything usfully creative before 4pm. Similarly I cannot do anything that requires real organization after 4.

This is either a relief or a real pain in the ass.

The “authority-based Twitter search” meme from a couple weeks ago led to my first ever blog comment. That led to a back and forth on Twitter and some emails back and forth. A couple days ago Salim launched Twidentify.

It’s pretty cool to see something like that grow from the spark of an idea to a live product in just a week or two. I had nothing to do with the site except for exchanging some ideas with Salim (both pre and post launch) but it’s still fun to have been there to see it develop along the way.

I played golf yesterday a the brutally difficult Ranch Club in San Jose. The round was a disaster, but I hit at least one very satisfying shot. On a short, downhill (like 60 ft) par 3 I hit a sand wedge that landed 2 feet from the hole and spun back about 15 feet.

In my 11+ years of golf this was the clearest view I’ve ever had of really pronounced backspin on my own shot. It was cool to watch.

I made the birdie putt too.

By the time someone has a really big problem, the offending product or service has probably built up a really big switching cost–otherwise they likely would have switched before the problem got really big. I wonder if there’s some kind of bell curve-esque relationship of problems to open-mindedness when presented solutions where the X axis would be the magnitude of a user problem and the Y axis would be their receptiveness to marketing of an alternative.