Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

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!I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment [...]

The Top 10 Universities with Great Free Online Courseware

This is for you dedicated students and other fans of continued learning!
A degree from a top university often comes with a hefty price tag. But these days you can nearly get an online education from these institutions for free! Though the business world indeed puts a high premium on the actual credentials you can put [...]

You Gotta Have Values

“If you have a really great business that makes money hand over fist, you could probably have lousy values. You know, somebody who just fell into the right place at the right time. But it really helps to have values. Like Google, today’s darlings. They didn’t have a clue how they were gonna make money [...]

The Need for Corporate Partnerships

I came across an awesome article about innovative partnerships and strategic alliances in Business 2.0 the other day. Melanie Haiken talks about the need for medium-growth companies stuck between buzzing startups and huge corporations to build strong relationships not only with their employees (although very important), but also with their competitors and with the community. [...]

Upcoming Web 2.0 Expo

April 15 through 18 is the Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone Center West, in SF. There are a whole host of expensive learning sessions and workshops, but I just registered for an expo pass today. The normal prices is $100, but if you visit web2expo.com/registration and try using the discount code WEBEX07ECON before the 12th [...]

Google Supports World AIDS Day

And so do I. This is just a straight rip from Google, but I thought it conveys the message perfectly as is. I advocate the (Product) RED campaign, especially since studies now show hard evidence that “celebrity-driven culture is a driving force behind the change in attitudes.” From the Google Blog:
Seeing Red
You might have noticed [...]