The TED site has started post­ing the best TED-esque con­tent from else­where on the web. My favourite so far is this one from Matt Wein­stein. In it he describes a money les­son he learned in Antarc­tica. I find the way he han­dled this really amaz­ing.  I guess, to keep it all in per­spec­tive, he has […]

This is the third time I have sat down to write this post. I keep delet­ing it. I watched a doc­u­men­tary this week in Swe­den and I can’t put it out of my head. It was about a group of moun­tain climbers attempt­ing to sum­mit the sec­ond high­est moun­tain after Ever­est (K2). I’m not going to ruin the […]

Randy Komisar is a good guy. He’s a Sil­i­con Val­ley CEO. Lis­ten­ing to him speak is like being sat down by your down-to-earth uncle, who wants to give you career advice. Komisar is good at giv­ing inter­est­ing advice about ‘fol­low­ing your pas­sion’ with­out sound­ing trite or overly moti­va­tional.  A lot of us get stuck on […]

Seth (the Mac­Daddy of Mar­ket­ing) Godin has gath­ered ideas from 60 bril­liant peo­ple, each shar­ing their insights into what mat­ters at the begin­ning of 2010. Frankly, if you flip through this slide show and don’t feel at least a tin­gle of inspi­ra­tion, you’re read­ing the wrong blog. I can’t choose which ideas I’d most rec­om­mend. There is […]

Your job is not per­fect. Me nei­ther. We have hid­den gifts you and I. First instinct, espe­cially in the heady days of early Jan­u­ary, is to re-evaluate and con­sider mas­sive life changes. Have we in fact missed our call­ing? In a word: yes. But it’s an eas­ier fix than you might think. Have you ever heard the […]