Posts by Scott Barstow

I am an email junkie.  I check my email probably 50 times a day at least, either on my phone or while working at my desk.  To paraphrase an old...

I had a major internet service interruption at my office yesterday.  I called the service provider and found out that the whole block was offline and that it was going...

I was reading an article by Premal Shah of Kiva this past week.  The focus of the article was on how to do reviews for the people that work for...

I was at FashionSpark this past weekend, which is the fashion show associated with SparkCon here in Raleigh.  I was there, not because I know anything about fashion (other than...

How often do you Google yourself?  I try to do this at least once a month to find out what is being said about me, or what comes up in...

A good friend posted an article on Facebook the other day about the network effect on extremism in modern life.  The author, Bill Davidow, is a veteran of business and...

I have been reading and studying the book End Malaria this week.  It’s a compilation of 62 authors who came together to help, as you might imagine, end malaria in Africa....

I have been running Rocket Hangar for about a year now.  When I started the company, I had two primary goals:  1. Do interesting and valuable work. 2. Don’t go...

I love tennis.  It’s become a sport that I love to play and follow. We were at a tennis tournament this past weekend and missed the epic five-set match between...

Yesterday, September 11, was a witches brew of emotion for me.  I was up early, playing tennis with my daughter as the sun came up.  It’s one of my great...

Why do you live where you live? Why do you work where you work? Why did you marry the person you married? Why haven’t you done that thing you have...

There is a new bakery that just opened up here in Raleigh, very close to our house, called The Upper Crust Bakery.  We have made it one of our new...

The video below is Kevin Rose’s interview with Dennis Crowley of Foursquare.  I have really come to enjoy Kevin Rose’s interview style while watching / listening to the Foundations series....

Education is a topic that I occasionally touch on in my blog.  In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t have my kids in public school.  It’s not for religious...

I was talking with a good friend yesterday about a business opportunity that has come across my plate.  He has been very successful, and seems to have a knack for...

There are two really cool things happening in drones right now.  I started DroneOS with Anders Brownworth earlier this year because we believe that great things are going to happen...

One of the TV shows we like to watch every week is CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.  It is a quirky show that has some really interesting topics not...

I had a conversation this week with a pretty important personal advisor wherein he proceeded to give me advice that was exactly the opposite of advice I had received on...