Are you successful? If you can define what success is, have you ever been so? Is success becoming a millionaire or getting 50,0000 followers? Or is it overcoming your weaknesses enough so you no longer focus on them? Or have you already lived most of your life and have come to define it as...
In the morning of a gorgeous Colorado day, a small black cat decided to adopt us and showed up at the edge of the canyon by our mountain home. I named him Leo. In no time, Leo figured out that our dogs had to obey their masters, so no way on earth would they...
If you ever hike to the top of Mount Olympus in Washington state just at the right time in the morning, you might experience the true meaning of being above the clouds. Unlike the experience from within a plane, the sense of personal and private enrichment is almost tangible there. Over the weekend, while...
Few things can overshadow the spectacular beauty of the Grand Canyon South Rim. The North Rim is one of those. From the South Rim, you enjoy the surreal beauty of the canyon at a tremendous distance and with a massive abyss separating you from the gorgeous formations. From the North Rim, your experience is...
There are very few places in the world that demonstrate human’s ability to create something practical out of natural beauty and make it even better than the original. Lake Powell, IMHO, is one of those places. I just finished reading Ethan Marcotte’s extraordinarily easy-to-read and useful book Responsive Web Design for the second time...
Unless something extraordinary happens before I black out this site for tomorrow’s protest, I won’t be doing my coffeetoast tomorrow morning. But I’ll do a double one today and this afternoon I’ll raise my cup (of cappuccino) in honor of all the sites that go black tomorrow in protest of SOPA. And here it...
If you have ever hiked to the top of Angel’s Landing, you would probably agree with me that it is a much, much better experience if you are alone or with someone you truly trust versus hiking it with the crowds of (inexperience) strangers that join the hike by mid morning. In the connectivity...
In his enlightening and entertaining book Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson gives us a simple, but powerful argument: Connectivity has been the primary engine of creativy and innovation. His main lesson is that Chance Favors the Connected Mind. This is an excellent argument both in favor and against my own post from...
On January 11, Farhad Manjoo dared to write a piece titled I’m Not Here To Make Friends*, which I recommend you to check out if you find yourself wasting precious time scanning thru the noise you get via your social media venues or have simply given up. Twitters alone generate over 250 million tweets...
List of Corporations, Individuals & Organizations Opposing SOPA! By enabling organic connectivity without borders and creative expression without restrictions, the Internet has made us stronger, both as individuals and as societies. Very few things in humanity history can match the collective achievement the Internet has facilitated, but it wouldn’t have been so if the...
Continuous advancement in technological progress doesn’t happen without the parallel progress of the methodology used by those involved in the development process. In the last few decades, for example, the software development methodology has evolved from the old waterfall method to today’s Customer Discovery and more efficient versions of Lean. In this evolutionary path,...
Many of us are constantly searching for that tip that would help us improve something about ourselves or for the right recipe that would make us successful. We can quickly see how eagerly we search for this by how the tribes respond to marketing tag lines like Because Self Realization Rocks. In case you...
January 11, 2011 Coffeetoast is in Honor of New Brain-Machine Interface Researchers! Almost a century ago the first EEG of a human brain was recorded by Hans Berger. His discovery is to this date considered one of the most remarkable in neurology. However, the progress achieved in just the last couple of decades by...
–Tired of reading how bad things are? Check out Part One, specially if you are an entrepreneur!– This year I won’t do top predictions lists. Instead, I’m going to raise up my cup (of cappuccino) and make my first of 366 daily coffeetoasts to honor each and everyone of the entrepreneurs who will start...
Are you tired of reading or hearing about how badly education, economy, innovation, entrepreneurship, healthcare or any other aspect of U.S. society has declined in comparison to how the rest of the world has improved? Every time I read or hear about this I immediately look if the author is actually using hands-on experience,...
In Pursuit of Knowledge! Over the last 15 years I have reviewed and tested thousands of products for consulting and corporate projects as well as, like you, many for personal needs. Throughout my career, I have even been fortunate enough to be part of the development and commercialization efforts of several IT start-ups and...
