After a brief adrenaline shot of renewed excitement (maybe the topic of future post), I came across a few interesting quotes on entrepreneurship.
Quote from “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of American’s Wealthy” excerpt:
About two-thirds of us who are working are self-employed. Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers [...]
Posts under ‘Personal Issues’
The startup as a kickstart to your life
Taking a break to refocus
The startup and small business path is anything but steady. It’s full of all kinds of high and lows. This has had an even bigger effect on us after years of steady schedules in school (well mostly steady) and the consistency of working at large companies like HP and Microsoft. Now with [...]
Practice makes perfect. Really.
A recent article in the New York Times by the acclaimed authors of Freakonomics(reading it now, I’m really enjoying it) casts an inquisitive eye on how elite levels of performance are achieved in a diverse range of areas from sports to music. While today’s mass media likes to tell the story of superstars unleashing [...]
How to actually work when you’re “working from home”
While browsing Lifehacker I found this AllBusiness blog post about a topic near and dear to our hearts: how to work from home. One of the biggest adjustments I had to make after leaving Microsoft 3 months ago was adapting to the drastic change in my work environment. Making your home a place of productivity [...]
Those cool gmail web clips
When I first saw them, I thought they were sort of lame - who wants ads cycling on the top of their gmail? But since they cycle interesting stories as well, I’ve become a big fan of those 1-liners. I sometimes find myself bored and just clicking through them. Here’s a cool [...]
