I’m a big fan of dreams. That I remember and record many dreams is one of the reasons I became an entrepreneur. The way I see it, where you live in dream worlds of your own creation nightly, you shape your life similarly through your conscious thoughts and actions. Just as you find your dream self [...]

I read something interesting the other day. The author of an article on ambitious business startup ideas taught me that my understanding of Moore’s Law was plain wrong.
Everyone thinks they know Moore’s Law. I thought I did. The common understanding is that computer processor clock speed will double every 18 months. Anyone paying attention to [...]

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When I bring my clothes to the dry cleaner, I pay them cash upfront. They probably outsource the actual cleaning to a different company. I always go to the same place because it’s convenient and I know what to expect. It may be a dirty business, but it’s low [...]

In the first entry in our series on exceptional individuals, I profiled Steve Jobs.
Here, I will profile another exceptional person who is one part Steve Jobs and one part Rodney Dangerfield.
That person is the ever-grinning, blond-maned entrepreneurial superstar Richard Branson.
There is perhaps no single person alive who better personifies economist Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of “creative destruction.” [...]

The amount of time and level of consistency you put into something is directly proportional to your results: part time effort will get you part time return.

It is with time and consistency that children move from crawling to walking;
It is with time and consistency that small savings become golden parachutes;
And, it is with time and [...]

This week, I’m beginning a new series that will profile exceptional individuals.
The criteria for being an exceptional individual is simple: The person will have changed the way people think and behave purely through persuasion. Thus, no one who ever occupied an official post in government will qualify.
I have written before about the first person I [...]

I received an email this morning from an organization called GuideStar. They publish information for and about non-profit organizations online, making some (but not most) of it available at no charge. Before they arrived, there was very little financial information on non-profits available to people who didn’t have the time and patience to request it [...]