Guest Speaker 10-9

The guest speaker was pretty cool, it was interesting to listen to a man that has lived and experienced the early internet and making a living off of online materials.  It's not too often that people explain what they do and how they do it.  The guts it takes to put yourself out there online is something that not everyone has.  It takes devotion, motivation, and trial and error to figure out how to make a profit online by selling your products and your experiences.  What I found to be the most interesting from this guest speaker was the fact that he is able to sustain not having a normal nine to five job, and only getting "normal" jobs if he felt he wanted to.  That with his hard work and know-how of a very specific field, he was able to market his experiences and the things he learned into a product that can almost be universally applied to that specific field. 
    His dedication to his craft and his knowledge of where he stands was very impressive, I'm sure it took him several years to find what works best for him schedule-wise, but he didn't seem stressed about what he did and he seemed very passionate about what he has achieved and a relatively short amount of time.  Moreover, he knew exactly where he stood on his writing and his writing ability, that 1. don't limit book series to trilogies they sell a lot more if you just keep writing books in that series. and 2. know how much you can profit, he knew that he wasn't able to make a living off of just the books he read, but it gives him at least "lunch money" which hey, money is money. 
Lastly, He does jobs that he cares about, he puts in the time and effort because once he made it his job, and it's admirable, it's noteworthy and it's impressive. 
  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

HTML And Me

Creating My First Heading My First paragraph. Creating my first HTML web page.  Well, that was very interesting, first off just a heads up the handout I received did not have a lot of pictures  I'm not sure if it was intended that way, but having pictures really helps especially when dealing with so much spacing and symbols.  Anywho onto the real story of creating my first HTML web page.  It was very quick to pick up.  Pretty straightforward once you get the idea of the basics.  But I can definitely see it getting a lot more difficult especially with formatting, and images, and anchors.  And all of the different versions of HTML and adding graphics with moving pictures and it can become a little overwhelming.  In all actuality, I'm not too sure what else to put into this blog post.  That was my experience it was fun, it's good to know that any basic word processor is able to create a basic web page.  Other than that it was easy, it was fun and I'm actually m
Read more

Startup.com

Startup.com a very interesting documentary for sure, it follows two primary founders of a website called govworks.com.  Although there were three founders, the third founder was barely introduced and had very little screen time and was bought out at a very early time of the company for something around $400,000.  Which is insane to me, although he did put in equal amount of time, effort, and money at the beginning of the company.  Interestingly it seemed that he knew what his shares were worth when he was getting bought out, which was a very smart idea on his part, even though he couldn't even sell his shares or stock even if he wanted to because the company wasn't on the public market just yet and was still getting funding from VC's.  Moving on the documentary itself was interesting, it was a good look into what the dot-com bubble was and how so many companies were trying to move into this multibillion-dollar market, in as little time as possible, and how everyone was try
Read more

What I Want

What I want out of this class.  Honestly, I want to know how it all began and the people responsible.  I want to know where technology has been, and the reasons why it was made the way it was because I hope it would shed some light on where we might go with it.  Moreover, what I want out of this class is a better understanding of how some technology works today, anywhere from the social aspect to the professional, in many different cultures and walks of life.  I would like for this class to teach me, and show me that technology is for everyone and that no matter what, technology can always not only improve the human experience but also how it can diminish it. All in all, I am interested to see where this class will take me, I'm interested to see where technology goes in the future, and I think that the best way to understand where it is headed is to understand where it has been.  I'm interested to learn in what ways technology has changed society and vice versa.  I would like
Read more