My “Year of Hustle”
I found the term “Year of Hustle”, via Unicornfree, in a blog post talking about how a web-savvy designer broke the chains of hourly consulting and got their own bootstrapped…
Lessons from my early-stage startup journey
Joe Gascoigne, founder at Buffer, offers up 10 lessons from my startup journey so far. There’s a lot to relate to and like in his advice. In my own startup…
The Emerging Wisdom Revolution
The Emerging Wisdom Revolution shares some interesting innovations in social technologies. They describe the ‘reputation economy’ and ‘fluid democracy’ as new methods for organizing and collaborating in social institutions and…
Facebook is the next …
Facebook is the next … Google? Much-hyped IPO that went on to greater things? Netscape? Biggest IPO ever then a flameout? Facebook is the next … AOL? Possible, even likely.…
Plight of the American Engineer
Is President Obama Right About Engineers?, asks CIS. President Obama seems to be clueless as to the real plight of the unemployed and underemployed highly skilled, as his answer to…
Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Computing Models
This high-falutin title represents a simple thought with respect to how to classify computer programming models. My GUT theory of computing models is this: All computing occurs on the basis…
How to Make Wealth
Reading Paul Graham’s How to Make Wealth is probably worth more than an entire two semesters of learning economics. He concisely expresses why startups ‘work’ as wealth generators, and along…
The right tools for the job
It’s said that a good craftsman doesn’t quibble with his tools, with the implication that it’s poor form to blame tools for mistakes. It would be better to say: “A…
Online Learning Outperforms Face-to-face Learning
Is online learning as effective as face-to-face education? I’ve been reading some studies and survey assessments. The studies show online learning is at least as good, and in marny cases…
TV was this kind of box that people watched before they had computers
Thought for the day: “TV was this kind of box that people watched before they had computers.” Something to think about while watching … Jim Carrey is Rocky Balboa –…