Empowering people to reach their full potential
From Wikipedia: Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to …
Meet Dananjaya Hettiarachchi, the 1st place winner of the 2014 World Championship of Public Speaking. Also, check out the breakdown of his speech, and his 5 presentation tips.
Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.
From Wikipedia: How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide. You can read it below, or you may download the pdf here.
I’m beginning to develop apps for Windows Phone, however I’ve run into a bit of a situation. You see, to be able to use the Windows Phone emulator on my laptop, I need to purchase the Windows 8.1 Pro Pack. This runs $99. While it may not seem like much, it’s quite a bit to …
Despite hundreds of years of research, most of the universe is still unknown to us. Not much is known about its history and about what is happening outside our Solar System. Here is a series of photographs showing the scale of cosmic objects.
“In honor of the Republicans I am having a small coffee and donuts meeting at my house to discuss whether the earth is flat and if dinosaurs existed. In honor of the Democrats I am spending $16 billion dollars on the meeting.” – John Jay Myers
Here’s an update on the progress of moving to the minimal web philosophy: Musts The text of an article, including headline Done. A good-sized, readable font Done. A column width optimal for reading I believe I have this down, though, it may be a bit too wide. I’ll play with narrowing it some going forward, …
I’ve been a casual reader of Leo Babauta’s zenhabits for a little while. There’s some rather unique and interesting posts there. Anyways, I’ve been inspired by the whole minimalist approach he has on his websites (find out more of what I mean at http://mnmlist.com/) Leo outlines the basic principles behind a minimal website as: The …
