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The Blue Hair

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Posted a survey to see what color my hair should be dyed, and here were the results:

GREEN: 62 votes
BLUE: 45 votes
RED: 43 votes

Sooooo….I should be dying my hair GREEN right?

WRONG!

You see, a day before getting my hair done, I came to the VERY obvious conclusion that I DO GREEN SCREEN VIDEO ALL THE TIME!
For example, THIS video screenshot was filmed on a green screen and digitally replaced with a background image:

Obviously dying my hair green will pretty much NOT allow me to do green screen videos without them looking all jacked up, so I went with the runner-up….BLUE!

Here’s the quick photo-journey of it turning from BLACK to BLUE:

DAMN THAT’S SOME BLUE HAIR!

But I’m calling this color “Chameleon Blue” because the color constantly changes depending on the light.

For example, in the pictures above, I’m in the sunlight which makes the hair REAALLLLYYY BLUE.

But inside, you can almost miss the blue, like this picture I took while making this post:

Also the blue KEEPS ON CHANGING everyday!  Every time I take a shower blue literally POURS out of my hair (apparently this is supposed to happen for about a week).

Here are some unexpected results of this weird hair color thing:

  • Homeless people are starting to recognize me.
  • I can’t take a shower without worrying about staining the shower blue.
  • I can’t go into the pool or hottub without a huge trail of blue following my head.
  • I can’t sleep on white pillows.

Anyhow….thanks for voting on the new hair color.  I’m sure this will make me look insane and lose all credibility in any new product I put out :-)

-Nev

 

 

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UPDATE: (5-1-2012)
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So after a few weeks, the hair keeps changing color because the blue fades with every shower.  NOW my hair isn’t blue at all, it’s like this GRAY color!

It actually looks like I have a full head of gray hair, NOT blue!

In the sunlight you can still sort of tell there’s hints of blue:

Although now my hair just looks weird.  Look at this screenshot from an upcoming video I shot on green-screen…..you can see how odd the hair looks:

….not so cool eh :-/

 

ANYHOW……every time I get my hair made some weird color it always goes through phases.  While the awkward faded-blue-green-yellow stage lasted longer than I’d like, it’s now fading into a browish/yellow color which doesn’t look all that bad.

It’s part of the fun to watch the hair change everyday :-)

Which hair color

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I want you to vote what color my hair should become:

BLUE, GREEN, RED….or enter your own color suggestion:

Whatever color wins, I’m going to dye my hair that color!

One time before I turn 30 (Nov. 17th) I wanna make my hair a weird color.

I have no idea why.
I’ve just want to for a while.

In fact this is probably an all-around bad decision since I do a lot of video stuff….and I’ll be talking about a serious subject with dumb-ass looking green hair!

Keep in mind I’ve made my hair “blonde-ish” many times:
https://www.nevblog.com/the-blonde-hair/

….and not one person has EVVEERR told me, “Wow, that looks really good on you.”

But I’m still gonna do it.  Vote for what color you wanna see in the form above!

…an accidental way I “socially proofed” my product….with laziness

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I’m all frazzled from releasing a new product today….but instead of trying to pitch you (since NevBlog readers aren’t necessarily all the target market of “wantrepreneurs”), I’m gonna show you a “Happy Accident” that occurred.

The SumoBusinessBlueprintLIVE: CASE STUDY EDITION is what I’ve been working on….and it shows people how to first VALIDATE their business ideas before going all-out making it.

Well in one of the emails I sent out….I wanted to “validate” if people even wanted this damn thing.  

So I included this little P.S. snippet…..literally JUST to see the reaction:

Keep in mind, when people reply to that email, it goes to my PERSONAL email.  Not some automated form or anything.

The email went out, and suddenly, I had page-after-page-after-page-after-page of this in my gmail:

….my iPhone damn near blew up when I checked my email!
It’s funny how I was simply tired & lazy, and didn’t feel like making a quick Google Doc for people to express their interest…..so I just told them to send it to my personal email, but I got this email which I found HILARIOUS!

My laziness made me “clever” …..I’ll take it ;-)
-Neville
P.S.  If you want to see all those sequenced emails that people really liked…..signup your email here and you’ll get them in 24-hour intervals:
https://www.appsumo.com/i-hate-wantrepreneurs/

SUMO DOJO – Hiring People To Make You Better (and PAYING for it)

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STEP 1.) Place camera in very precarious position on a ledge surrounded by hot tub on one side, and pool on the other.

STEP 2.) Start filming a video in a hot tub with other people in it….and pretend to ignore them.

STEP 3.) Film a Sumo Dojo about hiring tutors for yourself….and why you should PAY for it!

 

P.S.  Apologies to the couple inside the hot tub who DID NOT enjoy a romantic dip thanks to us :-)

If you haven’t..

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If you haven’t already signed up for this page ….it’s about to get really good. ESPECIALLY if you’re a wantrepreneur.

Wantrepreneur AppSumo Video

The SumoBusinessBlueprint LIVE EDITION is coming out on March 29th….and we made a pretty great autoresponder for it which starts tomorrow (March 22nd).

Signup to see it!

How to FIRE people

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Me and Noah talk about FIRING people when they start to suck…..and infect everyone else’s attitude.

SXSW SUMO DOJO

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What we love/hate/learned from the massive South by Southwest (SXSW) nerd conference:

For those young job seekers, or you unemployed slackers

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Pretty much the ONE person I know who actually loves his job, and gets everything he wants out of it: Kunal Das.  Here’s how he did it (and it’s not rocket science….well….unless you’re actually a rocket scientist):

It’s always helpful if you have a little guiding light before you graduate high school or college….and you get to talk to people who do what you wanna do.

For example, in high school I wanted to be a doctor (because I’m Indian)….so I joined a two-year program where I got to leave school every-other-day for 3 hours and shadow different types of doctors.

HOLY SHIT I HATED IT!

I learned several things from “sort-of-being” a doctor:

  • I despised the sterile medical environment.
  • I was NOT the slightest bit empathetic to patients (and therefore would be an awful doctor).
  • I noticed while doctors make decent money, their work wasn’t scalable.
  • I didn’t realize doctors have to put up with SO MUCH bullshit red tape, legal concerns, and insurance company crap.

…because I got to “see my future” I immediately knew I would NOT be willing to put much work into becoming a doctor, and would surely fail when it came time to difficult exams, MCAT’s and medical school.

Most people don’t get that chance, and go BLINDLY into some profession without thinking it through.

Those people usually end up hating their jobs.

Here was a GREAT article I wrote (correction: it’s just an Earl Nightingale article I re-created) about getting a job:
https://www.nevblog.com/how-to-get-a-job-fast/

…like a scary brown man

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I was going to the studio to film some more videos for the upcoming SumoBusinessBlueprintLIVE course where we try to kill people’s inner wantrepreneur….and make them REAL entrepreneurs.

I walked into a gas station nearby to buy some water….and got a BUNCH of weird looks going in.

I then realized it might freak people out when they see a brown guy wearing a shirt that says DIE!!!!