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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Welcome! Thrilling Heroics is a site for young professionals and college students who want to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. If you like what you read here, subscribe for free and get tips on personal development, entrepreneurship, branding & lifestyle design delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader. I think with the economy in [...]

WordPress’ Parent Company, Automattic, Raises $29.5mil, Set to Continue Rocking the Blog World!

Friday, August 1, 2008

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Sometime in 2003, a 19-year-old Houston kid named Matt Mullenweg dropped out of college to concentrate on an open source software project focused on improving typography for online writers—a project with fewer than 20 users at that time. Today, Matt is one of the founders of the company that makes WordPress, and has about 25 engineers [...]

Goofy-Dancing Your Way Around the Globe!

Monday, July 21, 2008

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Speaking of travel, my stepmom sent me this video of Matt Harding dancing his way around the world and I love it! Now this is a guy who knows how to get around—he’s been to over 80 countries. I remember seeing Matt globetrotting through dozens of countries dancing his goofy dance back in about 2006, but [...]

Sacramento is the 8th Best Place to Live and Work in the States!?

Monday, June 23, 2008

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Somewhat surprisingly, my hometown Sacramento was recently included on a new Yahoo! Finance list of ten Best Cities to Live, Work and Play in the U.S. “Our approach this year to picking the ten best cities in which to live and work was simple: Look for places with strong economies and abundant jobs, then demand [...]

Are You a Rebel Programmer Without a Cause? Help Transform Education

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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Steli Efti, a friend of Thrilling Heroics and creative entrepreneur behind Supercool School, is looking for a rockstar coder for a summer internship. Supercool School is a revolutionary concept in education, offering a free online learning marketplace that enables users to teach and study from each other over the web using audio-video chat. Steli and his [...]

California 100 Leadership Summit at UC Davis Next Week

Thursday, June 12, 2008

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For any readers in the greater Sacramento area, there is a great business networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 17th at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis: The New California 100. Billed as the Central Valley’s first leadership summit, the event will honor the top 100 companies in Northern California that generate more than $50 billion [...]

Balearic Adventure: Spain for the Holidays, Part III

Friday, January 4, 2008

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Sat, Dec 29: After cleaning up the apartment and preparing for our flight to Ibiza all day, we caught up with Meye once more this evening, to give her a piece of climbing equipment that Ryan had left for her as a gift. The four of us wandered a off the beaten path to Granja [...]

5 Ways to Pitch Your Product Like Steve Jobs

Friday, July 27, 2007

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Anyone who was present for Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at this year’s Macworld conference in San Francisco (or anyone who watched online), in which he introduced the iPhone as a groundbreaking new product, knows how captivating a speaker the Apple CEO is. And anyone who saw the long lines in anticipation of the iPhone’s release [...]

Drastic Evolutions in Sustainable Development

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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Many believe that in order to conquer global warming, we need to see a full transformation in human living spaces and transportation. Which is a LOT of work! Well, there are a few communities that are working hard to create drastically innovative living centers that change land use and transportation needs for the better. These “eco-cities” [...]