I’ve been very interested in thinking of clever ways to help myself and other people avoid digital sharecropping. Especially with the recent hoopla around SOPA. The problem I have with the term Digital Sharecropper is that it represents the negative behavior. We talk about how Facebook and Twitter is turning us into digital sharecroppers but [...]

Date Check Pro is a startup that was part of the 94 Labs tech incubator over the summer of 2011.  I was hired by Andrew Hoeft the CEO/Founder to build the site.  Date Check Pro is a SaaS product that helps grocery stores manage their expiring inventory.  We started planning the site at the beginning [...]

At Brazen Careerist where I work we’re having a series of posts by Brazen employees with tips about how they got ahead in their careers.  My post about starting a group was just posted today.  Check it out. Rock-It at Work: Start a Group Subscribe to Andrew’s FREE Newsletter!

Today I came across a wikipedia page about the Seven Blunders of the World which was a list created by Gandhi.  As I went through them one particularly stuck with me.  That was “Knowledge without Character” particularly because knowledge is something I strive for.  The problem was although I had a sense in my gut [...]

Recently I’ve been reading the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck and it’s really making me think.  According to the official website: In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of [...]