Be a Rockstar

Be a rockstar. In your own way.

 

In the world of today, everybody is making a lot of noise. There’s a lot of noise everywhere, in every possible domain. And if there isn’t much noise yet in one domain, you should expect noise to grow fast in just a few months.

 

So much noise makes things become boring. Really boring. And all the same. You have to stand out. Don’t be boring. I may not really care about this, but you should. Being boring will affect YOUR life, the way you see the world, how much of the world you see. It will affect your career, your willingness to smile and be happy. Being boring is horrible and it’s the one thing keeping you from greatness.

 

Go ahead an be a Rockstar! Who.. you? Yes, you! When you’re a rockstar in your own domain and in your own way you will finally feel that your life is going places. It won’t be simple. But it will be worth it.

 

The easiest way to become a rockstar is to find the things you Love and get noticed for doing them. Pursue the things you love and always say “I Exist!” while doing them. Let people know about you. About what your are doing. You won’t go from today boring, tomorrow rockstar. But over some time you will. And you will start seeing that people want to listen to you. They will love to be influenced by you. You will gain relevance and break through all the noise.

 

Think of this: Mark Zuckerberg. Who is he? Many people still don’t know, unless you tell them “He’s the guy who made Facebook”. reply is: “Oh, that guy. Yeah I know him now”.

 

Getting noticed for being awesome at doing the things you love is the best way to become a rockstar. So go ahead, say “I Exist!”. Be a rockstar.

How to Get a Free Blog

I talk about how traditional blogging platforms make you pay $7000 for blogging. Great talk on how Cif2.net changes all this and makes everything Free. Really free.

Seth Godin on Great Stories

Great stories agree with our world view. The best stories don’t teach people anything new.

 

Instead, the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the first place.

 

– Seth Godin

Around the Campfire

Humans have been storytelling for 100,000 years around the campfire; 

the media is now our campfire.

 

– Gloria Steinem (retweet from @randomdean)

On the Future Terrors or when evolution should stop for a while and think

Technology is evolving at an incredible pace. There’s no stopping it, is there? 

 

TechCrunch published an article in the early 2011 saying that there will be 10 years of incredible startups and innovations in technology. Technological growth and globalization changes everything. It changes the way we think, the way we interact, our vision on the world and the generation gap. But it also changes education. There is need for new systems to replace the old ones, all because of the advancements in technology.

 

Those of you who’ve been following me for a while now, know how passionate I am about all things Tech and how much I like this evolution of things. Honestly, I can’t wait for the Record Labels to fall in the pit, because they’re being asses instead of progressing. Progress or die.

 

The question following is: “How further do we want to progress? What paths do we want to take?” I bet you’ve asked yourself this question. So what do you think about Nokia patenting a technology that will make your skin feel who calls you on your phone?

 

Wait! What? Oh yes, it’s about a tattoo that people can place on their skin and when their phone calls they will feel WHO the caller is. Awesome? I don’t think so. Would YOU like your skin to crawl every time some annoying person calls you?

 

In my oppinion this is not a direction we should pursue. What do you think about Nokia’s patent?

 

PS: you can read more about the tatoo here: http://tnw.co/FOQDMT

Posterous was aquired by Twitter

Posterous was aquired by Twitter…

http://blog.posterous.com

 

Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share