Here’s a review on the quarter life crisis from GetRichSlowly.com. Sounds like it’s really not worth the read - its just a series of interviews about people like us talking about their issues. Why would you need to read about other peoples’ crisis when you can just talk to almost any of your closest friends? Anyways, there’s some inspirational ideas in it that are pretty handy. Check out the book review for Quarter Life Crisis.
We’re at an age when we really have nothing to lose. According to PaulGraham.com, why not do a startup now? Well here my perspective on why not. Its hard for people our age to start a venture finance-able company unless we are the inventor of the product. Unless you have the technical skills that make you an invaluable part of the management team, there is really not too much room for you in a start up. If you are an enthusiastic, passionate evangelist for your cause, once you convince VCs that you have a potential business, they will just boot you, keep the technical expertise pieces in play and invite their own management team to take over. People who have done it and have a track record of success. Remember, VCs have to consider what’s in the best interest of their limited partners, and an entrepreneurial internship experience for an inexperienced newly grad wanna-be CEO is not the best interest of the LPs.
If you want to start a company, make sure you have the passion (sales skills) and the technical skills (according to Tech Coast Angel/UCSD Professor Michael Lutz) . These two attributes will make you a vital part of the management team.
See Penelope Trunk’s take on entrepreneurship. Do it when your ready, but keep your day job!
Investment strategies using options. Basic, clear, with pictures and examples.
The last you’ll ever need. A great, comic-like slideshow that explains things very clearly. (Click on the bottom left to scroll through the slides).
I have a job for someone interested in doing market research for a tech start up in the workforce management solutions space. Please let me know and I will tell you more.
LA Times article about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who gather for “Founders Brunch,” a private invitation-only event in San Francisco.
A friend showed me this webcomic a while ago and it’s great. It is “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” There are a lot of references to computer science and math-related topics.
Career comics targeted at quarter life crisis-ers. Instead of making us read an entire book for career advice- give it to us in small doses.
” 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene is a “guide to the subtle social game of everyday life informed by the … military principles in war.”. [1] It consists of discussions and examples on offensive and defensive strategies from a wide variety of people and conditions such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Lawrence of Arabia, Alexander the Great, and the Tet Offensive.[2]The book is divided into five parts: Self-Directed Warfare, Organizational (Team) Warfare, Defensive Warfare, Offensive Warfare and Unconventional (Dirty) Warfare. [1] Each part contains a differing number of strategies, each in a chapter. Each chapter has a similar layout. Descriptions of battles, political and business situations are accompanied by Greene’s interpretation. There are occasional instructional sections followed by examples. All chapters end with a “Reversal” to give a brief discussion of where the strategy may not apply, a contrary view or defense. Throughout the book Mr. Greene includes quotes from a variety of sources. These are incorporated in the margins and between sections.
Although one reviewer has called the book “an indispensable book, [which] provides all the psychological ammunition you need to overcome patterns of failure and forever gain the upper hand,”[3] another one found it “perplexing — if not downright unhealthy — [to publish] a book on the lessons of war for everything but war at a time when we [Canada] are, er, at war.”[4] Yet another reviewer found the book’s coverage of military history informative, but the political tales “mostly foolish or just plain wrong”.[5]
The author’s blog -Power, Seduction and War: The Robert Greene Blog - expands on many of the themes from the book which he commonly refers to as The WAR Book.”
“From Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Blood Diamond,” comes NBC’s new show “quarterlife,” the first network-quality series that was produced first for the Internet.Known for their incisive portrayals of relationships and experience during life’s key passages, Herskovitz and Zwick take on the crucial years between 20 and 30 in “quarterlife,” when so many of life’s important decisions are made. “quarterlife” tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. As with Herskovitz and Zwick’s earlier series, at the center of “quarterlife” is a commitment to realism and the recognition of universal human themes through the truthful depiction of the way young people speak, work, think, love, argue, and just have fun.”
Obviously NBC thinks there’s a market for quarter life crisis-ers. Haven’t checked it out yet but there are a few episodes online at NBC.com.