Doug’s Mouthpiece – Droug.co.uk

Promotions.co.uk to close as of June 30th 2010

What we are doing written by Doug Scott

As of 30/6/2010 www.promotions.co.uk will close and no longer offer feeds or whitelabels for partners. The reason for this is simply the economics of the business do not work and we are concentrating on www.discountvouchers.co.uk.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved.

Regards

Doug

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb – interesting guy

Fun, other written by Doug Scott

Been reading some of his stuff, shary guy and interesting views of the world.

Some of his comments that came from an interview with The Times:

1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

2 Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

3 It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

5 Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific ‘evidence’.

6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.

7 Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network. Never take ‘no’ for an answer (conversely, take most ‘yeses’ as ‘most probably’).

8 Don’t read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants… or (again) parties.

9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Doug enjoy

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i-level staff looking for work??????

Jobs written by Doug Scott

We are looking for staff for www.discountvouchers.co.uk to be based in Surrey, so sorry to be a bit of an opportunist.

www.discountvouchers.co.uk is now the 4th biggest discount site in the uk and the fastest growing :) :)

We operate a very different culture to most companies, but we don’t seem to loose staff.

So if you are looking for something then email me or contact us on the www.asapventures.co.uk contact form or pm me on a4u.

Doug

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