Monthly Archives: July 2012

Part time shorting, AKA how to completely screw up and make $500 bucks..

At times it is borderline amazing how with a little education, studying and hard work how ridiculously “easy” shorting pennystocks is. I spotted a break down in $OREX and decided to go short a couple thousand shares with the intention of holding a few days. After getting bored and seeing roughly $600 in profits I [...]

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Seth’s Blog: Unanimous is not an option

When you do important work, work that changes things and work that matters, it’s inconceivable that the change you’re trying to make will be met with complete approval. Trying to please everyone will water down your efforts, frustrate your forward motion and ultimately fail. The balancing act is to work to please precisely the right [...]

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Seth’s Blog: Strategy matters more than ever

When everyone is playing the same game, your execution is critical. Your store is like their store, your bread is like their bread, so we care very much about the care and skill you put into your product or service. Of course, that still matters, but the revolution of the web means that the way [...]

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» the minimalism of not knowing :mnmlist

These days, nearly everything we want to know is a few keystrokes away, almost instantly gratifying our desire to know something. What’s the weather like outside? Do a quick check of your weather app. Who the heck is Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Ask Wikipedia. Who is the lead boy actor in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom? Search [...]

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5 ways milk doesn’t do a body good – The Week

But they got tons and tons of lobbyists thats for sure!! Got milk? Not so fast. The All-American beverage of choice is high in calories, saturated fat, and unnatural chemicals that can cause a range of health problems via 5 ways milk doesn’t do a body good – The Week.

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Export Nation: Does A Tipping Point Approach? | Gregor.us

Interesting for sure: Small business formation may coalesce around export sectors. In export heavy regions such as the Pacific Northwest and The Gulf Coast, jobs may boom. Entrepreneurship may also gravitate towards the export economy, and if you can believe it MBA holders may increasingly find better opportunities in the world of “real goods” than [...]

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Watchlist – 7-16-2012 – $AFFY, $OREX, $SSH,

Finally back in the office full time today, hope to make some trades, but also a busy catch up day at work so we’ll see. All these picks are shorts in my book. Full list from Yahoo Finance AFFY OREX SSH

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How to Overcome Failure – WSJ.com

The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has never liked this view. “I hardly ever use the word intelligence,” says Mr. Tyson, who directs the Hayden Planetarium in New York. “I think of people as either wanting to learn, ambivalent about learning or rejecting learning.” He speaks from experience: As a young man, he was booted from [...]

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Ideas via exercise

I don’t think I have had a single great idea that has NOT come to me during exercise in the last 2 years. Its borderline amazing, just by running some sprints and swining some KB’s in the heat today I had two very solid and exciting ideas come to me, almost in a divine inspiration [...]

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Consistency

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