10 Controversial Climate Change Fixes to Spark Discussion—From Wired.com

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!It’s been a long time since I wrote about sustainability, [...]

I’m Part of the Brand New Brazen Careerist Network!

…Successful entrepreneurs decide to start a company and then think about it. They play with it in their mind. Maybe they talk about it, just a little. And then they make a commitment to the company, and you know what? Nothing changes. It still looks like a lot of nothing, because it’s mostly just thinking.
Penelope [...]

Carl Schramm on Entrepreneurship

I’m still traveling through Spain for the holidays, but I have some useful goal-setting exercises on the way soon! In the meantime, here’s some interesting material to keep your appetite satiated.
At the 2007 Entrepreneurship Week USA opening ceremonies at Stanford University in California, Carl Schramm (President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation) surprised [...]

Get Your Parents to Stop Labeling You An Underachiever

Are you known as the family underachiever? Do you break all the rules that people around you expect you to follow?
Maybe you’re 26 and you still haven’t completed your degree. Or you still work at a local coffee shop, when your parents would really prefer that you become an investment banker. Perhaps you refuse to [...]

What Generation Y Wants at Work

Now along come the 76 million members of Generation Y. For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn’t really exist. They just want to spend their time in meaningful and useful ways, no matter where they are.
—Penelope Trunk, in an article for TIME Magazine, “What Gen Y Really Wants”

Book Review: Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

Anyone who’s crazy about business books knows Tom Peters, the management guru who foresees an Inescapable White Collar Revolution that will transform business in the next ten years! (And if you don’t, you should read him!)
Well, Tom is getting to be quite the old-timer. (Sorry, Tom.)
Penelope Trunk is his engaging, competent, young replacement. ‘Nuff [...]