Umar Haque is one of my favorite new business authors. I found his blog on the HBR list that I follow, and downloaded his short essay Betterness: Economics for Humans onto my Kindle to start reading it. The essay is short, about 80 pages, and is an ideal read for entrepreneurs and psychology dabblers like me [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Reading List,Social Architect
Tagged: Betterness, HBR, Social Entrepreneurship, Umar Haque, Writing Exercise
One of the coolest things that I do every week is have lunch or coffee with someone interesting or influential in Austin, Texas. I’ve been meeting and developing relationships with all sorts of really awesome Austinites for the past few months, so I decided to start posting about the meetings on my blog. You’ll read [...]
Categories: Coffee With,Entrepreneurship
Tagged: Coffee With, Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship
Saturday afternoon, I volunteered as a “production assistant” for We Are Austin Tech. My job was to record timestamps for each interview question and transcribe the answers. I took about 15 pages of notes over the course of the afternoon, and got to listen to interviews from some amazing entrepreneurs that I admire for how they live [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Texas
Tagged: Bootstrap, Entrepreneurship
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish Existential Philosopher and Theologian said that. I love Keirkegaard’s work because he explores our emotion and choice when we as people face big life decisions. “Facing a big life decision” is a fancy way of [...]
Categories: Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Reflections,Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tagged: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Reflections, Rheumatoid Arthritis, risk, Segway, Soren Kierkegaard, St. Edward's, vulnerability
Last week, I got so much positive response from my post, Coming Clean, where I talked about having Rheumatoid Arthritis. The positive response to such a personal story made me consider being that open regularly in this blog. That post received 1,000 unique hits because the Arthritis Foundation shared it on their Facebook page and their Twitter stream. Prior to that moment, I [...]
Categories: Career,Employment,Entrepreneurship,Job Seeker,Reflections
Tagged: college, debt, Economy, employment, graduation, living at home, risks, Unemployment, vulnerability
[Update: I want to greet all the readers from the Arthritis Foundation. After @Arthritis_Org tweeted this post today, site visits have increased more than I could have expected. Thanks, you guys, for stopping by to read. We're all in this together, and I'm glad to share my story with you all. Thank you for being [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Reflections
Tagged: arthritis, austin, Blogging, childhood, Facebook, hip replacements, identity, kineret, Rheumatoid Arthritis, stryker hip implants, Twitter
I’m not one for watching YouTube. Cat videos and Justin Bieber don’t entertain me much. But I found this video because Bret Hurt, Founder / CEO of Bazaarvoice, tweeted it out, citing the importance of good company culture encouraging employee productivity. Bazaarvoice is famous for their culture, so I queued this up and listened to [...]
Categories: Branding,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Social Architect
Tagged: Community, culture, Google, innovation
New years resolutions simply don’t work. Don’t waste your time making them. Spend your time worrying about something else instead. Think about it. When was the last time you were confident about making a resolution at new years and then sticking to it? When folks talk about their new years resolutions, I rarely hear [...]
Categories: Career,Employment,Entrepreneurship,Networking,Reflections
Tagged: Economy, employment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, New Years Resolutions, Unemployment, vulnerability, Writing
Here’s a list of everything that I’m reading right now. Since I got a Kindle Touch for Christmas, I’ve been reading differently. I bounce back and forth between the Kindle and the physical books that I have started. I’m definitely reading more that I was, and differently. Since I’m constantly reading, I thought it would [...]
Categories: Branding,Career,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Reading List,Reflections
Tagged: Blogging, Copywriting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, reading, reading list, Writing
Before he passed away, my Granddad, the beekeeper, would tell these fantastical stories of his entrepreneurial journey. He would talk about saving his nickels and dimes in order to buy Chevy Trucks, or a few acres of land, so that he could work more and make more money. The stories were fantastical because a few [...]
Categories: Career,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,My Granddad
Tagged: Blogging, chevy truck, Copywriting, Economy, Entrepreneurship, granddad, macbook pro, Marketing, Practice, Reflections, saving money, starbucks, vulnerability, Writing