Posts by Scott Barstow

Books I have read in the last six months that I would recommend: The Mesh by Laura Gansky This is a really good book about the future of business from...

Over the holidays at my in-laws, I took time to observe their behavior and compare it to mine.  My in-laws are in their 60s.  Each day they: Watched the local...

I was reading a post by Michael Hyatt this week called ‘Why I Stopped Reading Your Blog’.  A few of the points he made I agreed with, a few I didn’t.  One of...

One of the great gifts of being a professional in technology is the gift of re-invention.  What was true of me yesterday does not have to be true of me...

I was in a meeting the other day at a local technology company.  There were seven people in there with me, and one on the phone.  Every person involved in...

Every now and then I come across a book I had at one point wanted to read but for some reason let get off of my radar.  Such was the...

More Shipping I spent the last few months of 2010 getting the foundation laid for what I hope is a successful 2011.  Success in 2011 means shipping.  Shipping takes on...

At the beginning of this year, I set out to live differently.  I called it the More And Less List, and it went something like this: More doing, less talking...

“We need to hold our leaders more accountable.  I can’t believe some of the things they are getting away with these days.  As a Nation, we should be ashamed of...

I enjoy studying my own ineptitude when it comes to staying on task.  I have come to the realization that my best work happens in one to two hour bursts...

For the last four years, I have coached basketball at a small high school here in Raleigh.  When I decided to start my own company this fall, I had to...

A few weeks back, a good friend of mine tweeted about being stuck in traffic and being really pissed off by the “late mergers”, those evil drivers who drive by...

Two years ago, no one could have imagined ( except maybe the folks that run Facebook ) that they would be flipping Google the proverbial middle finger.  I wrote about this...

I have spent the last few weeks in a mental fog.  When I started Rocket Hangar my initial thoughts were that I would not have enough to do, and that...

In the 2008 election, then candidate Obama and the democrats ran on a platform of hope and change.  They committed to a few things:  getting our economy back running, passing...

I have been following the recent trend with the two largest pizza franchises in the US for the last few weeks.  Domino’s and Papa John’s have taken to slugging it...

After a lot of different attempts, I have finally settled on a good system for using the features of Priority Inbox in GMail. What I started out with as a...

I received a link to an article today on Eric Schmidt’s vision of the future, a world where passive search is the norm, not active.  In the article, Mr. Schmidt...