Life-changing conversations don’t always happen after a presentation in the workplace—they happen in elevators, hallways, and break rooms.   Your greatest opportunity may not come when you...

When I started Hydros, a modern water filtration startup, I had my heart set on stainless steel filters and glass bottles.  Water-filtering pitchers, carafes, and portable...

We right-brained folks simply aren’t built for back-office tasks like filing payroll and balancing the books.  Every business owner faces daily frustrations.  The hours can be...

Exactly a decade ago, I was sitting in my high-school guidance counselor’s office for a mandatory meeting about college. When she asked where I was in...

Dragons are all around HarpData. On my LinkedIn profile, my job title is “Father of Dragons.” It’s on our newsletter—The Weekly Slayer—too.  Emboldened by faith in...

The right brain allows you to think outside the box, use empathy to reach your audience, increase your productivity, and create something truly new.  In today’s...

When it comes to the things laptops are used for, data protection tends only to be a priority for the tech-savvy. When it comes to data...

If we’re going to be successful in the field of total human optimization, moving forward the industry must find ways to work together. A few decades...

Before I could put the work into developing technology to change our energy consumption for the better, I’d have to first focus my efforts on fossil...

It’s incumbent upon leaders of a virtual office to go further in fostering connection and productivity than founders with a centrally located team typically have to....

As a job seeker, the common wisdom you’ll hear about the end of the year is that hiring tends to slow down. After all, with so...

If you want your company to operate cohesively in solving hard problems of scale and innovation, it’s necessary to have core values that are purposefully designed,...

Maybe a client is asking too much of you, or maybe you’ve overpromised on your own. Either way, it's a problem—and you have to fix it.

The mathematics behind this methodology is so complicated that even Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the second-most popular cryptocurrency, calls it “moon math.”

You don’t have to love networking (or be a reporter) to be good at it. I began my writing career as a news reporter for my...

Weighing outside perspectives both pejorative and assenting

If you want to stay competitive, open communication and widespread understanding should be your top priorities.  We’re currently in the midst of what people are calling,...

Augmented reality, essentially, is the ability to enhance the world around you with things that aren’t physically there.  The most obvious AR applications lie in the...

Today, my co-founder and I have modeled our business around the characteristics that unify us. When I first started thinking about launching my own company, I...

Because everyone in-office is communicating via Slack anyway.  My day job entails answering e-mails, attending team meetings, and writing articles. If it sounds like your typical...