Check this out:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/04/144636898/a-man-a-van-a-surprising-business-plan

I see this solution as something that will become more and more relevant in the upcoming years: location-based, mobile service businesses.  I am not referring to services like plumbing, electrical, or carpet cleaning.  We understand how that works. We have also seen it happen with food.  Food comes to us now in the form of hip and stylish food trucks willing to set up next to where their customers are.

We have mastered crossing the time and distance domain with networked connectivity.  What we still have yet to do is bring immediate response to problem-solving.  It still requires a call or an appointment, a trip in a car, or a FedEx package.

Think of all the brick and mortar services out there that can become mobile.  What “wires” are keeping them fastened to a foundation now?

Think of all the services that don’t have an established brick and mortar model or a web-based model, such as the Chinese Visa service illustrated in the article link above.  I think, wow…

Welcome to the new, Site-Specific, Nomadic Services world.

More info? Here.

http://goo.gl/vDl2F

A new project.  To read about this project, you can check out http://fixthisplanet.com and read about why I am doing this by going here.

 

 

 

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Stefan Sagmeister is a thinker and a doer.

Stefan Sagmeister: Don't Take Creativity For Granted from 99% on Vimeo.

I woke up tonight drowning in ideas. A good thing?  I think not.  At least not a good thing in the middle of the night.  As I was lying in bed and ideas swarmed around my head, my frustrations with implementation overwhelmed me.  I tossed and turned and grew progressively more agitated. I was suffering from my own creative worst-case-scenario:  The undone idea.

I have been submerging myself in a whole world of thought experiments and prototypes.  So much so that they seem to all be mashing together to form one, giant blob with no beginning and no end.  For me, this has become a problem.

I have even found outlets for these ideas.  Places where others distribute ideas freely:

http://www.managementexchange.com/

http://www.ideeeas.com/

So here I sit, blogging and scheming and relentlessly jotting notes and sketching diagrams...

Only to be met with a universal conclusion: Develop a bias towards action.

 

 

New project | A data experiment :  http://daytum.com/p_r