Since I started my freelance business, I’ve loved the freedom, but it also comes at a high cost, which is why most people don’t start their own businesses. I’ve struggled with the transition to working from home, social isolation, difficulty prioritizing for myself, lack of motivation, the slowing economy, and more. It’s not easy, but […]

I finally bit the bullet yesterday and paid the 97 bucks for my subscription. I figure I’ll take what I learn, hopefully get a kick in the pants, and apply it to creating more awesome content here and on my business blog…

If you don’t click based on that headline, what else could we possibly say here to make a difference? Don’t you need to save yourself some grief with your air travel? So click already.

As a follow-up to my post the other day, How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations, I’d like to share some more of the insights from my conversation with ABCnews.com columnist Michelle Goodman.

The lesson here is simple: if you have a genuine interest in what others do—be they columnists, authors, CEOs, or whatever—don’t be afraid to reach out and ask them a few questions about it.

Everyone’s talking about information overload these days, so I figured I’d use this as an opportunity to share both 1) some of my personal interests, but also 2) how I filter through the vast amount of knowledge and media that’s available to us these days through the blogosphere and all the mainstream entertainment and news channels […]

I got tired of feeling like a doomsayer, which—unfortunately—is what a lot of environmentalists come off sounding like. But Wired Magazine’s 15th anniversary issue has stirred up a lot of talk in the global warming circles that caught my attention yesterday […]

Do you ever ask yourself how one of your friends got a seemingly awesome job? Or, ever find yourself staring off into space while you sit at your desk, daydreaming about being in another line of work? Well, Alexandra Levit surveyed 500 gen-Y and gen-X professionals to find people with their dream jobs and she […]

If you’ve been on the net as long as I have, you’ve most likely run into the “GTD” acronym before. But, do you know what it means? GTD is a productivity and organization system that was created by management consultant David Allen in his 2001 national bestseller Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Allen […]

John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application […]