You are an entrepreneur
There have been a few articles telling you if you are or aren’t an entrepreneur based on whether you also have a full time job. Basically if you have a full-time job and your...
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Security, Convenience & Patriotrism
Our lazy intelligence community is complaining that people care about privacy and encryption. According to the this Washington Post article, there are “Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related...
Culture & Strategy
Daniel Newman started a great discussion on Facebook on culture and strategy. I had more to say than could be crammed into a little space, and would love to keep that discussion going wherever...
When Marketing feels like Marketing
Advertising and marketing have traditionally been interruptive and frequently annoying. We’ve endured it for lack of options. To watch TV, we had to watch ads. To learn about products, we had to read heavy...
The Future of Work
We’re not in the 1950s any longer, where people would be recruited, trained and maintained by an employer for life. The change from one employer to many employers to complete changes in career to...
Influence is relative
Social media influencers are relative – there are no people influential to all listeners. Some people cling to broadcast era ideas that some people are universal influencers. The reality is, influence is relative. It’s...
How to make a billion dollars
via GIPHY Made you look. Kidding, I seriously have a thought on this. It’s sadly not from personal experience, but from seeing successes that followed a certain set of steps. There will be a...
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Sympathy for the Devil
Disruptive technology is, by definition, disruptive. It hurts the (typically) big businesses intrenched in an industry. These businesses often turn to legislation and PR to fight back, rather than innovate. Uber, AirBNB and other...
Why medicine can cost $750 a pill
The price of the drug Daraprim went up from $13.50 a tablet to $750 when a former hedge fund manager bought the drug and raised the price. What seems to confuse a lot of...
Make or Die
The French Foreign Legion’s unofficial motto is “Marche ou crève” (March or die). Serious stuff. But then again, they’re pretty serious. They are one of the original bands of Expendables. Trained like crazy with nothing...
