Fear & Doubt vs. Hope & Trust

I read a book over Christmas break. There was a chapter dedicated to fear. I thought it was interesting. The chapter explained that fear begins as a slight form of doubt which fights against disbelief and reason. It usually wins causing us to make poor decisions and abandon hope and trust.

You should check it out if you have time. Its chapter 56 of Life of Pi.

No Shave November?

I'm cheating. Trim only November. Gotta stay classy.

Still Stumbling?

Did I mention stumble's success? Take a look at this chart

In the past 16 months it has doubled its user base. Their next market is the international market. There is more room for growth.

Qwikster?

Netflix had this brilliant idea to offer two services, one for dvds and one for instant view. Is that a good idea? To separate the two? Let me ask you this. Will we always need to place a disc into a device to play media? might there be a day when all of the data is accessible over the networks? Absolutely. Disc will become obsolete. We will be streaming blue ray quality from the web. Ever heard of Fios internet? Look it up. When I hear of netflix attempting to separate their two service I think of how they're preparing for the future. Not a bad idea. The problem is that a lot of people don't like having to pay twice for a service they can get now together.

Stumbling

I read this article about Stumbleupon. Go figure. The creator's idea was to help internet users to find things online that they would never have looked for otherwise. It is like a search engine that gives you something that you will like but had no idea existed. Will there be another Steve Jobs? Well duh. Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, and Justin LaFrance are Steve Jobs! They created Stumbleupon and will be able to invent even better ideas in the future because of their success. Hello!

Sustainable Design (This post is actually worth looking at)

What is sustainable design? It is environmental friendly. I will be the first to admit that I really don't care about the environment. However, I will also admit that these new sustainable designed buildings are pretty freaking awesome. Let's take a look at apple idea first.

Located in Cupertino California, this building would be self-sufficient and would have an enormous greenery in the middle.

Next is NASA's environmental friendly building. The idea for this project is to create a building that will actually benefit the environment in which it is built in. Costing $20 million dollars this project will not need any artificial lighting.

Located in Manhattan, the W57 is expect to be completed in 2015. Designed for residential, each unit will have either a balcony or a bay window for natural lighting. Also, the courtyard will contain a large green area which is uncommon in this city.

Sharing is Caring. Haha, that's dumb.

Ever had someone show you an extremely humorous video? I have. Then you wonder how that person can be so cool to find that awesome video! I have. Let us speculate that I have the funniest short video in the entire world. I then post it on youtube with a generic name and no tags. Do you suppose those cool people would be able to find it? Absolutely not. Knowing where the funny videos are online is a collaborative effort. When I post the funniest video in the world on youtube I tell my friend. My friend then tells another friend. Rinse repeat.

AddThis found that most sharing happens on Wednesdays at 9:30am ET. We most like to share by copy and pasting URLs to emails instant messages or posting them on social media.

So get out there and start sharing!