THE DREAM IN ACTION

I’m going to be in the market for a new computer in the next few months.  I’m definitely going to get a laptop.   It just doesn’t make sense not to with how mobile everything is these days.  I’m currently using a friends computer to write this post and it is a MacBook Pro.  It’s very [...]

How productive is it to have one place that you go to work everyday.  I sit in the same place everyday as many people do during their work day and I’m actually in a very good situation. I work on the 29th floor of a building in Chicago’s loop and I sit right on a [...]

As I write this post in response to a post on tadfad.com about Public Transit I am sitting on the northbound redline train of Chicago’s elevated train system.  The CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) is imposing rate hikes within the month and the trains seem to be getting slower and slower and at least in the morning [...]

Mint.com, the new start-up that helps users manage their personal finances is legit.  They just won TechCrunch40 the start-up competition put on by Michael Arrington’s blog TechCrunch.  The night they won I went to their site to sign up but I experienced very slow load times and nothing seemed to work quickly at all.  Apparently, [...]

This topic is a bit disterbing, you’ve been warned.   Why are mom’s on facebook? Mine is and its a bit wierd.  I understand that facebook is one of the most popular websites on the internet and is used as a very effective tool to stay in touch with friends and family, however I definitely [...]

I’m in the very early stages of a career and I think I’m going through something that many people go through. I’ve entered a period of stagnation.  I go to work everyday but I’m rarely excited to go or excited about the work I’m doing. I don’t want to give up but I question all [...]

I’ve been writing on ActionsTalk.com for about 2 months now, probably not as frequent as I should but as the site accumulates posts I struggle with which directions would be the most beneficial for myself the writer and you the reader. It originally was going to be strictly writing about taking action towards a start-up. [...]

Not even Google can recruit ALL the best young talent. In the Silicon Valley there are thousands of computer science majors and motivated individuals who would give their left nut to be hired by companies like Google, Facebook and Firefox. But, these jobs are very rare and incredibly difficult to obtain. However, facebook.com has created [...]

Is it just me or does everyone have a huge hard on for Steve Jobs? Chill out about it.  Today the iPhone hit the 1 Million in sales mark which is pretty impressive, however, there are a lot of other great products and companies out there and frankly I’m kinda tired of reading every other [...]