Summertime is here, time for lemonade. Here is a great cause to raise awareness and money for childhood cancer. Help support Alex’s Lemonade Stand if you can. http://www.alexslemonade.org/home Related Articles Have You Found Your Calling? Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis–Lesson from Quitter Jon Acuff HexLight and Cold Fire – New Inventions from Season 2 of Pitchmen [...]

This is one of my favorite stories about corporate America. Five Monkeys Start with a cage containing five monkeys. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the [...]

Summer is the time for graduations. My post is probably a little late but now that the excitement of commencement has faded you might be faced with the question, “what are your plans after graduation”. I In my blog posts about my life story, I forgot to mention the night I graduated from high school. [...]

What do all these men have in common? They are some of the people I admire. Each has a quality that make them unique and puts them at the top of my most admired people in the field of creativity and innovation Total Persistence-Can you imagine trying something and failing at least 700 times. That [...]

I read a blog post by a pretty cool guy Kevin Mills. He and his wife just had their 3rd child. Here is a short excerpt from his latest post: “It’s worth it to me to spend my money on my kids. I’m not talking about spoiling them, or buying them whatever they want, when [...]

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.” -Andre Malraux Maybe it’s the summertime blues. I find it hard lately to take action. The idea [...]

Newspaper designer Jacek Utko suggests that it’s time for a fresh, top-to-bottom rethink of the newspaper. (At this point, why not try it?) In his work, he’s proved that good design can help readers reconnect with newspapers. A former architect, Utko took on the job of redesigning several newspapers in former Soviet Bloc nations, starting [...]

I saw this over at the Inventor’s Mentor Library, thank you to Gizmo and Tania. Related Articles Have You Found Your Calling? Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis–Lesson from Quitter Jon Acuff HexLight and Cold Fire – New Inventions from Season 2 of Pitchmen ZIPZ Shoes The World’s First True Interchangable Shoe The Pain of Change Thank [...]

Roger Brown was recently featured in a Business Week Article. You can also see his web site at http://www.rogerbrown.net/. If his name is familiar it’s because he’s one of the mentors at the Inventor’s Mentors Library. Related Articles Have You Found Your Calling? Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis–Lesson from Quitter Jon Acuff HexLight and Cold Fire [...]

One of the things I love about kids is they always ask “lets’ do something fun” or they think of ways how they can make something more fun. They live for fun. One of my best jobs was where I had the freedom to have fun and make technology more fun for people to use. [...]