Business development for me usually means knocking on doors. In the digital world, that door is your inbox. Sometimes targets make my life easy by listing their email on their site. But just like the YellowPages, many people prefer to be “unlisted” online. This requires me to be resourceful to find email addresses. After I [...]
Archive | December, 2011
I Eat Ice Cream When I’m Tired
For a long time I was told I need to get 7-8 hours of sleep without a compelling explanation why. “You need to be well rested” doesn’t exactly make me want to drop whatever I’m doing to uphold some seemingly arbitrary mandate. Lately I’ve noticed a correlation that does make me strive for 7-8 hours: [...]
Thoughts on The Knowledge Economy
Two things that I love are learning and businesses that create surplus from uncaptured value. A space that particularly intrigues me is the Knowledge Economy. So much of the incredible knowledge that people have gained through experience lies dormant. People always want to improve, gather more data points, and find things faster so there is [...]
How to Be A Better Thinker
I’m not sure if you can become smarter, but I think there are things we can do to be more effective thinkers. Here are things that have enriched my thinking ability in my own life: Value thinking and Give Yourself Permission To Do So: I write about this a lot, but the pervasiveness of smartphones, [...]
I Lost Sight Of My Life Goal
A few months ago I had the painful realization that I had lost sight of my primary life goal in the process of trying to achieve it. I have a lot of life goals, but the most important one to me is to build something that benefits the less fortunate at a grand scale. [...]
Unconventional Thoughts About the Best Thing Young People Can Do
I’m on my 4th job since graduating in June 2010. So yeah…compared to most of the people I graduated with, I’ve had an extremely unconventional career thus far. In short, I look like a Mexican jumping bean. When I ask a good portion of my classmates what the plan is, I often hear a familiar [...]
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