Brett Anderson's Blog, page 2
April 21, 2018
RV Day 8
April 16th
Pyramid Lake – Silver Island BLM Lands
Waypoints: Pyramid Lake, Fenley NV, Grimes Point Archeological Site, Sand Springs Pony Express Station at Sand Mountain Recreation Area, Austin NV, Silver Island BLM Lands
Miles hiked: 4.1
Miles driven: 441.8
Break camp: 20 min
Make camp: 18 min
Camp type: Dispersed camping no services
Camp cost: $0
I grabbed sunrise photos at Pyramid Lake on a 1 mile walk.
A lake this larger seems beautifully out of place in the middle of a desert.
We h...
May 26, 2013
Mass Marathoning
Mass-marathoning is watching entire television seasons in a single sitting. It is a type of binge television consumption that has exploded with the availability of on demand streaming content from providers such as Netflix and Hulu.
This type of watching can create a procrastination tidal wave.
In Chapter 4 of Study Secrets
, I talk about how web TV episodes can create a serious black hole in your time. Conquering this black hole will bring you so much closer to the good grades you desire.
Howe...
May 15, 2013
Join Half a Million Waiters, Janitors, and Bartenders with College Degrees … Or Don’t
I have talked in the past about the elephant in the room that is student debt. If you partook in the student debt bubble and will be walking the stage for a diploma paid for with borrowed funds, you will quickly feel the pressure to get a job and begin servicing that debt.
And this is the point at which things get messy, particularly if you don’t know all the best options for kicking off your career.
Even if you are one of the fortunate who have secured a first job, it is just that your first j...
May 8, 2013
Non-Linear Careers
I wanted to share with you a great post by Penelope Trunk about the value of a non-linear career. Checkout the link below for her thoughts on non-linear careers ranging from skipping college to starting your own business:
The Strongest Careers are Non-Linear by Penelope Trunk
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130425182632-5973711-the-strongest-careers-are-non-linear
April 25, 2013
Student Loans
The elephant in the room about going to college is the crippling burden of student debt.
When my father was working his way through graduate school in the 1970′s, tuition was something like $700/semester. In the 2010′s, the semester costs of books alone nearly surpass that.
The average student now graduates with roughly $12,000 in loans.
In 2011, some 54.5% of all bachelor’s degree holders under the age of 25 were under or unemployed.
I saw a news segment recently about a recent grad who has app...
April 20, 2013
Brain Dump
“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.” – Seth Godin
The brain dump is a practical technique you can use to clear your mind for maximum performance.
In Dr. Sian Beilock’s book Choke, the brain’s role in human performance is examined. Dr. Beilock finds that worry or anxiety crowds your working memory. Since working memory is a finite resource, filling your working memory with scenarios of dread actually limits your capacity or performance on a task such as an exam.
If you find your...
April 17, 2013
How Do I Find a Co-Founder?
How do I find a co-founder?
One point I want to emphasize from the Paul Graham article, which I talked about yesterday, is the following:
“Most students don’t realize how rich they are in the scarcest ingredient in startups, co-founders.”
There is no “Match.com” of startup founders. At a university, you are surrounded by people who are eager and able to team up with you to create something amazing.
Paul recommends finding people who are relentless builders. Alexis Ohanian also recommends you find...
April 16, 2013
Student Startups
To continue on the streak about student entrepreneurship, let’s discuss founding a startups.
It is my prediction that student startups will gain market share in the choices students make for beginning their career. As I mentioned from Alexis Ohanian, founding as a student has advantage of covering the human costs of founding a startup.
Paul Graham, founder of startup incubator Y Combinator, feels the same.
Paul has his own list of the strengths students and recent grads have as startup founders...
April 15, 2013
How Will You Change Your Life this Summer?
Certainly this life changing opportunity is not for everyone. If you are young and ambitious, read on.
This event I want to tell you about is a ‘how to’ guide for breaking free, becoming successful, and achieving real freedom. It is hosted by entrepreneurs who have actually done these things and want to donate their time to talented, action-oriented youths who desire to do the same.
As an attendee of the camp in 2012, I cannot stress how valuable the experience has been to me in the past 8 mont...
April 12, 2013
Start Taking Action
As I mentioned earlier this week about student entrepreneurship, I recently attended a talk by Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of web startup Reddit.
He had some really great lessons in his talk so I am sharing the rest of them with you now.
1. Have an idea, start doing it.
Alexis shared his desire to have a 10 minute “101″ course required for incoming freshmen with the most important peice of advice he could imagine giving them.
This course he said would basically come down to showing students th...
