Getting lucky is often about getting out of your comfort zone and opening yourself up to new and different opportunities. You can get lucky by listening to different people’s points of view and then looking at the situation from their perspective. You can also get lucky by putting yourself in situations and locations that are [...]
The Disposable Age We live in the disposable age. We eat take out, use disposable dishes, and look for a quick and easy fix for everything. The current bestselling books talk about doing less and enjoying more like “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss (which I am all for by the way). We [...]
Last week during my stay in Hawaii, I was interviewed by Brianne Randle of KHON2, an affiliate of Fox News about homelessness in Hawaii and how it affects tourism. Apparently, there have been streams of discussions on expedia.com and tripadvisor.com about the homeless problem in Waikiki, which is discouraging tourism. Brianne pointed to a group [...]
All the way through our schooling we are measuring how smart we are. How well we do on each test, in each subject and most of all compared to the rest of the class and sometimes even the rest of the State, Country or World. After we are done with schooling, many of us are [...]
There once was a time where it seemed like there was a finite amount of knowledge out there. The wise men all knew the same things, had the same education and maybe had a little bit of a different expertise. Besides the few regular inventions and innovations, you could probably know everything there was to [...]
Growing up my father used to tell me that every day was “the first day of the rest of my life”. He would mostly use the expression when I was starting something fresh like the first day of a new school year. The expression always seemed funny but never really had any meaning for me, [...]
I just had a conversation with a friend of mine who has five twitter accounts, one is personal and then four of them are each a stream for different topics. I don’t know what all of them are but the ones that I do know are great ideas. One of them is a pipeline of [...]
As many of you may know, a few weeks ago, Google launched Chrome, their new internet browser. Since this site is all about “getting lucky”, I decided to wait a little while before posting about this major step for Google so that I can apply a lesson to Chrome instead of just announcing the browser [...]
Picture Credit Problogger posted a while back about a conversation he had with Seth Godin about Twitter. Seth mentioned that he doesn’t use twitter and barely even uses Facebook. He feels that if he does something, he wants to do it really well (which is a whole other post) and it’s better not to do [...]
I’ve mentioned before that old or traditional media is pretty much corporations developing a message that suits them and yelling it out at the world as often as possible. With the average person being exposed to 3000 ads per day, that’s an awful amount of being yelled at. Social Media allows companies to interact with [...]