Jul
25
“Don’t follow your passion”. That’s contrarian advice right there. Or is it? In his commencement speech to the Columbia Class of 2015, Ben Horowitz demonstrates that not following your passion works. Because our passions, “like boyfriends”, can change over time,…
Jul
24
This is an excellent commencement speech by Chris Sacca. His last piece of advice — be your weird self. That’s a great piece of advice. Your weird self is the one that requires no effort, has no pretence and wears…
Jul
18
A repost of Richard Koch’s Law of Singularity article to remind myself and you, that sometimes there is only one way to save your business or brand. One way. And it’s usually really, really hard to do. So hard that…
Jul
17
I’m putting this here as a reminder for when my children are older, but before they can beat me. The idea that practising one thing 10,000 times is better than practising 10,000 things once is an old one. It’s called…
Jul
15
I enjoyed this letter from Pete Sampras to his 16 year old self. Writing such a letter would give you time to assess your life, see what worked, what didn’t, show you what’s really important and help you to move…
Apr
07
This woman is an inspiration! Meet The World’s Oldest Female Bodybuilder At 77, Ernestine Shepherd is the world’s oldest female bodybuilder and in our original documentary short, we follow a day in her life.See more videos: http://bit.ly/18YRARO Posted by Prevention…
Apr
02
How much of what you think about your brain is actually wrong? In this whistlestop tour of disproved science, Ben Ambridge walks through 10 popular ideas about psychology that have been proven wrong — and uncovers a few surprising truths…
Jan
21
Back in October last year, Stanford held its wildly overcrowded How to Start a Startup course. Silicon Valley’s outspoken libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel had these very wise words to say on the subject of crafting billion dollar monopolies. If you…
Jan
08
I get creative inspiration from a lot of places and a story like the one linked to below is a taste of that. Here’s a guy who is learning, creating and building very cool vehicles in a similar style to…
Oct
28
We all have limiting beliefs that affect our production. Some people claim they are not ‘creative’ or a good ‘people person’. The cold hard truth is that these are just excuses. The silver lining however that if we decide to…