Buy a copy of the new paperback edition of The Big Red Fez and I’ll give you a free copy of the worldwide bestselling ebook Really Bad Powerpoint by email. All you have to do is buy the paperback of Fez from Amazon or a local bookseller and send me an email at this special address and subject line and I’ll send you the ebook by return email within a week. No proof of purchase necessary. I trust you.
By the way, the ebook for The Big Red Fez no longer exists. My publisher, Simon & Schuster, made a significant donation to charity (all proceeds from this project have always gone to the JDRF) for the paperback rights and they asked me to remove the ebook. Since my goals for this book are to spread the word and help the JDRF, it made sense to me. So if you got the electronic version, it’s now officially a collector’s item.
January 17, 2002
Find out if you zoom. My friend Red did an amazing job on the Do You Zoom quiz, which is a bunch of psuedoscientific nonsense masquerading as a personality test. The best part of the quiz is that you can send it to your co-workers and friends and find out how they rank as well. For those who are fans of ideavirus, it’s interesting to note that similar quizzes on thespark.com (but funnier than mine) have had more than 5,000,000 users. Maybe this one will spread…
Survival is Not Enough. hit #4 on the Denver Post bestseller list last week and has stayed in the top few hundred on Amazon since publication. I appreciate your willingness to buy it sight unseen… and thank you in advance for telling your co-workers if you liked it.
I was stranded today. I had to spend hours in Nyack, just over the border from New Jersey, so I shopped. Actually, I TRIED to shop, but I failed. I spent two hours at the mall, and it was boring.
Having done most of my shopping online lately, I’d nearly forgotten how boring it is. Every merchant alive needs to read Paco Underhill’s book, Why We Buy.
The only store I saw that didn’t bore me was the new Apple store. If you haven’t been, it’s worth a visit. Sure, it will be boring soon too. That’s because our tastes evolve faster than retailers allow their stores to.
January 15, 2002
