Business

These days it's cool to be a student. Almost everyone between the ages 18 and 30 is or has been a student. It doesn't matter if you know what you're good at or what you want to do with your life, being a student is the perfect solution for the young professional. In fact, being a student is the new professional. Why get a job these days when your job can be being a student?

Perhaps this is somewhat a more sophisticated economic topic, but I feel it is well overdue. Because people are so used to being an employee and having somebody else provide a job for them it has perverted our way of looking at technology and growth. We look at things from a selfish, fearful position rather than a creative, exploratory position.

For instance, when we first heard about the industrial age and machines coming about everyone panicked. What, machines?!? These machines are going to replace my job! This is terrible! I am no longer going to have a job!

Think, Help Others, Read, Solve Problems, Create Value, Work Hard and Grow. Pretty easy right?

People seem to believe that college and education are somehow tied together, as if you can not have one without the other. This couldn't be further from the truth. College does not lead to education and education does not lead to college.

I spent two years of my life in school and experienced the utter nonsense of watching people who had absolutely no desire for education waste away their lives. And for those of us that were concerned with education college offered but one main source of knowledge - books - and a slooooow pace at best.

Most people think that there is only 1 economy and that it is cyclical. They think that it is natural and normal for the market to go in cycles and that inflation is a result of a cyclical economy. The fact of the matter is this is a complete misunderstanding. The economy most people associate with is what I call the fake economy.

The Fake Economy

I really don't like public companies much at all. For the most part their main operations are built around money rather than value. This small difference makes a huge difference in the long run.

Public companies always have to go back to the shareholders and keep everyone who has put money into the company happy. There is really not any one person who runs the company. Sure they may have the chairman and the CEO, but at the end of the day the company is controlled by the money. You just have a bunch of greedy people running around trying to increase the bottom line.

I think it's getting worse and worse these days. Most people never actually offer their own value that much. They usually just pass on somebody else's value for a commission. Seriously, everywhere you look you will see this.

In the Internet you have people who offer "hosting". But they're not really hosting your site. They're just reselling somebody else's hosting service. And the hosting service that is being resold is also reselling hosting for yet a larger company.

Everyday I see people getting screwed by and pissed at other businesses and clients because they are setting up the wrong types of relationships with them. There can be many reasons on why they dig themselves into this hole but here are a few: no value, fear, low experience and greed. You need to cut the BS and set the record straight from the start.

A few months back I wrote a post about how technology scales a reality and I wanted to expand on that. With the advent of the information age it is becoming more and more clear that this is precisely what is happening with people and their Internet habits. You have two different splits.

Most people think the name of a brand matters. They think that the key to a successful business is a good name that somehow magically does wonders. They think that if you are in the web business and don't have a .com you're dead. I'm here to tell you that's all nonsense.