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Adam DuVander on keeping it simple

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Slides and links from Ignite Portland

October 25, 2007 by Adam DuVander

I was honored to speak at the inaugural Ignite Portland tonight. The format was a quick 20 slides, auto-advancing after 15 seconds. It’s the essence of simplicity!

Below you’ll find my slides, a video of the presentation, and links to learn more about some of the topics I mentioned, and a little more about the three books I quoted.

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    Links:

  • Fast Matters: Google’s test with search results.
  • The two simplicity paths: find the core
  • POWER HOUR
  • Seven Day Product
  • Four day work week
  • Early Amazon: Recommendations
  • Global Rich List
  • The experience is the product
  • Productivity secret: letting go
  • Phone in your to-do list
    Books:

  • Laws of Simplicity
  • Founders at Work
  • Bit Literacy

Update: Added video above

Comments

  1. Drew says

    October 26, 2007 at 2:22 am

    Fantastic presentation! Thanks for posting your slides on your site. It’s great to share with folks who couldn’t make it tonight.

    Reply
  2. Todd says

    October 26, 2007 at 8:28 am

    Great presentation, Adam! Thanks for posting the links and your slides, makes it easier to follow up on some of the ideas you presented.

    Reply
  3. Ryan Williams says

    October 26, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Great presentation. For a 5 minute presentation you got a ton of actionable ideas in there.

    Reply
  4. Adam says

    October 26, 2007 at 9:47 am

    Thanks everybody! It was a delight to be involved and I had a great time watching the broad mix of talks.

    Reply
  5. Paul says

    October 29, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    Great presentation! You look pretty comfortable and confident there, dude!

    Reply
  6. Jaered says

    November 6, 2007 at 4:16 am

    Hey, lookin snazzy. I’m gonna do me a power hour right now, actually.

    Reply

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