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My previous post about what I see as broken with the Occupy Wall Street movement was the result of several conversations, both on twitter, and in-person. As a result of that post, I’ve been able to discuss the movement with a diverse group of opinions, not only in the comments , but also on Facebook and Twitter, [...]
I think that Occupy Wall Street has been losing steam over the past few weeks. I’m starting to see fewer articles and less media attention directed towards the various activist communities who call themselves the 99%, many of whom are part of Generation Y. While I have very strong reservations about being associated with the movement, [...]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know…” OR, “It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you…” OR, to add a bit of edge, “It’s not what you know, or who you know, it’s actually what you have on who you know.” The last one is [...]
When I saw David Walker, Austin Entrepreneur and founder of Conjunctured, and 302 Designs wrote a post titled, “Call Me a Hypocrite, But Steve Jobs was a Jerk,” I wanted to respond with my own perspective on the man whose work has touched all our lives. If you’re reading this, Steve Jobs has directly influenced [...]
You have to show up every day. The endless days where nothing works have their own arithmetic that adds up to breakthroughs of genius. The sun will come. Everybody works for free at first. Free doesn’t really mean “free” though. Free means that you’re an investor. If you’re the entrepreneur, it means you’re an investor [...]
I started reading The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux last night in my on-going quest to understand how people think. I know of a marketing expert in Indianapolis, named Mark Clevenger, who focuses on the unconscious and emotional responses that drive people to make decisions. He recommended LeDoux’s book. Clevenger’s marketing is currently in use [...]
I had exactly three retail jobs when I was getting my degree at St. Edward’s University. Because of that I do endorse the common wisdom that everyone should pull a stint in retail or the service industry. This holds true in my experience because I took exactly two positive things from my time shilling under [...]
Everyone knows the accomplishments of Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Gandhi freed the Indian nation from British imperialism, and Nelson Mandela peaceably brought South Africa out of Apartheid and into a beautiful multi-cultural nation. Big Deal. These stories are known and celebrated throughout the world, and to be honest, they are stories that I have [...]