Leadership and entrepreneurship are all the rage, which sort of makes sense since they go hand in hand: Entrepreneurs start businesses and leaders run them, right? That’s what I used to think. The problem is that entrepreneurs and leaders have another thing in common: Neither is actually a job. And[…] Read On
When I first launched this site, the developer, Ryan Frederick of emg (amazing web developer, btw), gave me some advice, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Come up with something big so your blog will go viral, you’ll get tons of subscribers, and life will be good.” The big hit on his relationship site,[…] Read On
Some people never fail. They’re the ones with no aspirations, no will to excel, no guts. Hopefully, everyone reading this fails. Repeatedly. Still, we’re all tempted to put failure behind us and forget it ever happened. To get that bitter taste out of our mouths before it does any real[…] Read On
Every Friday on his way home from work, alone with his thoughts, Matt would replay the week’s frustrations over in his mind. He wasn’t even aware of it; the voices in his head just sort of took over. The chatter was practically deafening. And every Friday evening like clockwork, he[…] Read On
As far back as I can remember, I’ve been hearing that technology is going to take our jobs and cause the downfall of the working class. As fear-mongering memes go, it’s right up there with the horrors the population explosion was supposed to unleash on planet Earth, per Paul Ehrlich’s[…] Read On
We have a problem: There are way too many idiots in the world. And because they’re idiots, they have no idea that they’re idiots. And therein lies the rub. Have you ever tried to get an idiot to realize it? It’s way harder than you’d think. The problem is that[…] Read On
Apple’s historic 1984 Super Bowl commercial was a watershed event for two reasons: It really got your attention, and it got a clear message across: that Apple’s Macintosh would save the world from a dystopian future of IBM clone PCs. It was so prophetic, so true to what has become[…] Read On