So we pre-ordered the FitBit Flex when it was announced at CES back in January. All of this time they kept saying that it would be released in “spring”, but they never committed to an actual date. Months and months of waiting and several hundred questions on blogs and sites everywhere asking “fitbit flex release [...]
As a student of the “success marketplace” (otherwise known as reading a ton of success books over the course of my life) I came to one revelation last week which of course is probably blindingly obvious to almost everyone. Everyone, and I mean everyone, who is successful, got a lucky break at one point in [...]
Back about 8 years ago, some colleagues and I were discussing this very issue: that many people are very talented in areas in which they can’t really make a living, so they spend time in a “day job” which they may or may not like, but pays the bills while they pursue their true passion. At the [...]
While I personally do not agree with the whole new stance on working from home that Marissa Mayer is about to implement at Yahoo!, I have to say it was a great publicity stunt. In almost every meeting I’ve been having over that last while the topic of discussion seems to wander over to Marissa’s [...]
I’ve been going through a bunch of stuff lately about life and time. When I think about all of the time that we waste, day in and day on on trivialities, things that don’t progress us towards our goals, I get a bit steamed. Sure, I get it, there are a lot of things that we just [...]
Hey all – sorry for the radio silence over the last few weeks but have been away vacationing in Hawaii – pretty nice I must say. Over the break I celebrated a birthday, spent a lot of time on the beach, enjoyed some great food, and had some great times. Made me think about how [...]
Is big data analytics the holy grail? As I think more and more about big data analytics, I wonder if we will really find the answers we are looking for in that mass of data. This whole thing is kind of reminding me of the search for the Higgs boson particle – we all have this [...]
My first programming language was BASIC, starting with Turbo Basic, moving on to Visual Basic. I then took a long hiatus, then jumped back in with Ruby on Rails (RoR). Once I made the leap to object oriented programming, it was a breeze. It literally took me 6 weeks to go from zero knowledge of RoR to [...]
This is something that I’ve been wondering for a long time – why do we still, in this day and age – have this insane rule dating from the Great Depression regarding having to be, basically, rich, in order to invest in a company? There are so many exciting startups that are out there that [...]
As a follow up to my last post “The End Of Location, Location, Location” the corollary is that small business people must give up any kind of struggle they have against privacy on the social networks and the success of their business. Let me give you an example. A small business person, lets call her Amy, run a little [...]