A Saturday thought on failure…
I’m not kidding in the title. You should be looking for areas to fail in. You can’t succeed without it. If you’re not accustomed to pushing yourself to the limit, you’ll never reach a goal that exists at the limit.
You should put yourself in situations that significantly challenge your ability to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Economics'
Failure - Go out and find it
August 2nd, 2008 ·
Tags: Economics · Education · Managing · Rock Climbing
If you’re that important, they’ll find you again
July 23rd, 2008 ·
On Twitter, the numbers for friends (people you follow) and followers (people who follow you) are being misreported. The most common tweet today is about one’s follower count dropping off. This is telling of your personality, and not in a good way.
If you’re complaining about your follower count dropping off without your realizing your friend [...]
Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Flow · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Twitter
Scoble and Gary in DC
June 26th, 2008 ·
MCCXXIII
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Last night I headed down to MCCXXIII, a club at 1223 NW. Connecticut, for a DC Social Media meetup. The meetup featured Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) as guests.
I’ve been following Scoble more than usual this week, as he’s come to DC to interview politicians and government officials with Rocky (@RocmanUSA) and his [...]
Tags: Blogging · Economics · Education · Energy · Social Networking · Twitter · Utterz
Homeless, Keyless, Wednesday
June 18th, 2008 ·
Today was strange…
Image courtesy of Malingering on Flickr - it is not of either of the homeless men I met today.
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I started off the day by going for a great morning run. On my way home I realized my house key fell out of my shorts pocket, so I was looking around on the ground [...]
Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Homelessness · Philadelphia · Running · Twitter · YouTube · del.icio.us
Sweat Equity
June 1st, 2008 ·
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on real estate - Lately been hearing a lot of people talking on the subject of short-sales, and I’m trying to digest some of the numbers. The NAR (National Association of Realtors) is describing 18% of homes on the market as being upside down (the owner owes more [...]
Tags: Economics · Philadelphia · Real Estate · Remodeling
Why I’m not opposed to rising fuel prices - Philip Greenspun’s electric car post
May 27th, 2008 ·
Image of Ford Reflex, a concept hybrid vehicle with solar panels on the roof
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Philip Greenspun, professor of electrical engineering at MIT (and an avid traveler and fellow aviator), has an outstanding post. He explains some simple math behind replacing every passenger vehicle in America for electric cars. The resulting cost: Zero.
Link to Professor Greenspun’s post
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