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Keep your cool: 10 reasons you should never let an argument turn into a...

I’ll get right to the point. Raising your voice is a useless irritating habit. Here’s why you should never get into a fight with your employees, your boss, your friends or family or anyone for that...

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Rock, paper, scissors – the answer to humanity’s biggest challenge

Freedom is the Holy Grail (hear that, Dan Brown?) Freedom rocks, right? We’ve been fighting for it for so long, it MUST be, we can’t be doing it just to pass time. And we’re pretty good at it also,...

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Haters and losers! You need not be either!

The last post I wrote was about how hard freedom is because of the tons of choices you have to make. A side effect of so much freedom is that you want everything. You want money, a great family, love,...

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Boyd’s cycle: the path to guaranteed success + 6 big companies as evidence

I know a secret that will make you invincible. It will turn the odds in your favor so that you never ever fail.  Companies like PayPal, Twitter or Instagram all did it and they’re not doing half bad!...

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Patience works, let 5 year olds prove it! [VIDEO]

You can’t wait to <enter dream here>, can you? Waiting isn’t your strong point, is it? Well, see if any of these rings any bells: Overnight success usually takes 10 years Good things come to...

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Do you really have to have it?

We’ve grown up in a world obsessed with money. Humans, as a species, have elected money as their governor. Consumerism and social status Everybody agrees that money is just a means to a goal, but we...

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How to steal someone’s job… and not be a jerk!

I was having a casual, fun conversation with a friend the other day when, out of the blue, she got all serious, leaned over the table and whispered, as if she was afraid of being spied on: “Matt, I...

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Heavy metal lessons on success! Learn from Helloween, Manowar, Metallica,...

I’ve never been a fan of heavy metal. Most of the songs I associated the genre with were too loud and lacked a discernible melody I could hum. They made my brain stop working. A few days ago, a very...

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Programmers rejoice: shortcut for your toughest problems! Exclusive insights...

How do I poll 20 APIs concurrently and stream the results back to the webpage? Should I combine Mongo with Elasticsearch? Why is Sensei DB randomly running out of memory ? What’s a good algorithm for...

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Calling it procrastination doesn’t help, but this will

2011 and 2012 were amazing years for me. I started a great company, got to be in the news, appeared on TV, helped shape, from a leading position, an entire industry, met some amazing people along the...

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