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This crisis is not temporary - welcome to the creative age
These new numbers showing +50% youth unemployment in Spain and Greece are simply mind-boggling. The old world order has broken down. The financial crisis is not some temporary phenomenon and then we c…
Gigaom: Facebook lacks soul
So Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars. That’s a lot of dough.
I’m a bit saddened by the news. And I don’t think I’m the only one.
Facebook lacks soul. Instagram is …
Pursuing a shared vision
This is going to sound crazy to a lot of people (then again, much of what I talk about probably sounds crazy to a number of people), but I really believe that great businesses come from outside of you…
Dreaming big
Speaking of signs that show up three times, on Friday i San Diego, I had a conversation first with a real estate agent, who told me about Nat Bosa, the guy behind most of the residential high-rises in…
I don't know how to do anything else
I can definitely relate to this post by Justin Kan:
“I don’t know how to do anything else.”
“Neither do I.”
“I don’t much want to.”
“Neither do I.”
This scene from Heat makes me think of startups. Wh…
Co-founders or no co-founders
For years, I really wanted a co-founder, but I never seemed to find the right one.
That didn’t stop me from moving forward, of course, but the farther you get, the more difficult it is to invite anoth…
Delivering pizzas to homeless people
Reading the guest post about the Buried Life on Tim Ferriss’ blog, I stumbled on this paragraph:
The first person we ever helped was a guy named Brent. He wrote to us in broken English saying his big…
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me - another of the top five regrets of the dying
The number one regret of the dying, apparently is this:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This is, of course, in no way limited to your w…
I wish that I had let myself be happier - Top five regrets of the dying
Beautiful, inspiring work by Bronnie Ware, Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
The last one surprised me, but there was also this big feeling of recognition about it. I just didn’t realize it was as widesp…
The buried life
The Buried Life people are amazing.
Tim Ferriss posted a great guest post by Ben Nemtin from the Buried Life group and it really inspired me.
Such a big part of becoming who you really want to become …