"...elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious."
I'm Eric Farkas, currently a mechanical draftsman, as well as a web developer, doing mainly Ruby on Rails. I am also the CTO of TalentSoup, as well as one of the founding members of Sensus Divinitatis Publishing. I have a number of side projects, including SD News, Perplexed Labs, Inc. and GenXCommune. In a past life I was a founding member of HoverSpot.
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Seth's Blog: Quieting the lizard brain
The lizard is a physical part of your brain, the pre-historic lump near the brain stem that is responsible for fear and rage and reproductive drive. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because her lizard brain told her to.
The video was even better.
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SKMurphy » Overnight Success
The challenge with a startup–like many other things in life–is that you need to integrate many different inputs, your own hopes and fears among them, and negotiate a working consensus with your co-founders to be successful.
And that doesn’t happen overnight.
via skmurphy.com
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Summary - The E-Myth Revisited
The reason most small businesses don't work is that they are run by a "Technician", someone who knows how to do the technical work involved in a job, without much thought to two other, equally important roles described in the book, the "Entrepreneur" and the "Manager". These are not separate people, but distinct elements of our personalities. In other words, while we might be biased towards one, we all have all of them, and to successfully run a small business, they must all play a role.
Good summary.
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Jim Rogers: My First Million
Picasso or Art Deco as an investment?
I am at a stage where I am not interested in having or amassing stuff.
via ft.com
Neither am I, but for much different reasons!
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An Entrepreneurial Life
It’s so easy to justify working long hours, missing family events and being stressed out in the noble quest of providing for the family. I accept the reality that if you want to be successful, you sometimes need to put the business (or job) first. I wish it were as simple as just deciding to put the family first — and maybe it should be. But entrepreneurship is not always about our wishes. Sometimes we have critical responsibilities that can’t wait: to a customer, to an employee, or for the bills that have to be paid. At some point, though, once the business is successful, it is no longer about providing for the family. It becomes more about ambition, ego and competition. We all make choices, some conscious, some not.
Everyone talks about balance. There is no balance. Balance is perfect. There is nothing perfect in work/life balance. It is about compromise, choices and, often, regret. Here is the irony of ambition: The same ambition that drives people to be successful won’t let them enjoy being successful. They pay a terrible price for their success, as do their families, but they are never successful enough. Me? I feel successful. I didn’t always. I never felt as if I did enough, made enough or achieved my potential. I have redefined what it means to achieve my potential. Sometimes controlling your ambitions can be a good thing. Sometimes smaller is better. Grow or die is an insane war cry for entrepreneurs. Many times it is grow and die. The bottom line is more important than the top line.
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