Facing criticism and cynicism is something that anyone on a creative endeavor will have to deal with on a constant basis. I know I've dealt with a lot of it for my other projects and even for this blog, new as it may be. It is something that you'll be facing if you're doing something worth doing. Teddy Roosevelt said it best: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of d...

It has been months since the last post on Ivanismo, I've missed it a lot. Just a few days ago I left my Job, it was not an unexpected decision, just one that happened a few months sooner than I had expected. I will miss the people and the work I did a lot but the lessons learned and the mistakes made will forever enrich my life. Without going into unnecessary detail I left my job because I was no longer happy in it and it was turning me...

The world thrives on entrepreneurship, in business, art, science and even spirituality. All the great names written in history, famous or infamous, were of entrepreneurs. Those who felt compelled to do more and better. But what lies at the core of that complex and elusive quality in life? In the heart of the entrepreneur lies conflict, a never-ending struggle between what is and what could be. An everlasting urge to do more, to do better...

The other day I came across a new company called Get Satisfaction. Its basically a place where users can start forums for specific companies, products or services and discuss them or get support for them. Any user can start a forum for any company and some companies are joining in and giving official support on Get Satisfaction. There's a very clear message here, in this age, if you don't talk to your customers they will talk among themselv...

Wired has an article on its April issue titled How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong. It tells the story of Apple's management style, how while in Silicon Valley management is going for the open route, being empowering and comforting to its employees, Apple is going the opposite route. Its corporate culture values extreme secrecy, empowerment is a dirty word at the company and micromanagement is on the menu everyday. At t...

Ever since they crammed us with resume formulas back in high school I knew they were little more than a waste of paper. If you're comfortable with representing all you are worth and everything that makes you remarkable into a formulaic document then there's not really that much that's remarkable about you. The few times I've sat down to write a resume I felt completely inadequate. How do you express your passions into a resume? How do you ...

Circuit City has been in hot water as of late, its place behind Best Buy in the electronics market is only overshadowed by its massive continuous loses over the past years. Their latest plan to turn things around is rebranding as The City. With a concept of smaller stores, interactive demonstrations of their products and store "guides" equipped with tablet computers, the company hopes to regain ground. But there's something wrong. A job...

Good ideas are overrated, even great ideas are overrated. When was the last time a good idea changed the world? Ah, Edison, you say? Einstein? Adam Smith? Marx? Tesla? I bet a dozen other names are popping into your head right now, but you're wrong, dead wrong. It was not these people's ideas that changed the world, it was passion. The passion these people had for their ideas changed the world. Good ideas are a penny a pound, they born of...