Share Building a startup is sexy. The front-end developer with skinny jeans and hipster swag is the new version of a Scotch drinking Ad Man. And this is all good…believe me I love to rock the fake nerd glasses just like the next SoMa hacker, but there is an issues that often arises along side new trends. [...]
On 01.17.12, In Self Development, by Brenton
Share Habits make or break a person. A Quora user posted the question: What Everyday Habit so you Wish you had Developed Earlier in Life? I reflected on some of the habits I have acquired over the past 4-6 years and posted an answer to the question. You can check it out below: Looking at [...]
Share I have some incredible friends… Truly incredible, inspiring, change the world type friends. Last Thursday three of these friends and I traveled up to the remote woods of Napa to get away from the fast paced life of the valley and SF for a few days. However, it was less about pressing the “reset button” [...]
On 11.28.11, In Social Change, by Brenton
Share For those of you that are part of the movement, that hate the movement and even those that are apathetic…I encourage you to read this post. This post is my humble attempt to bridge the gap between factions of the 99% that seems to be polarized based on social and political affiliation. You should [...]
On 10.27.11, In Social Change, by Brenton
Share It’s been about two weeks since, Catherine and I went to join in on Occupy SF. We were excited to join in on the movement that was shining the spotlight on the fundamental flaws in our monetary system and the people and institutions that exploit the people by using the system as a lever. We [...]
On 09.26.11, In Social Change, by Brenton
Share The human race is an egotistical bunch. If you are trying to depute that…it’s not you…it’s your ego arguing with me. I say this not to stir up dissent; I say this because our massive egos have been holding us back from creating a world that works everyone. It’s really strange to think that [...]
Share When you title blog post like this, you run the risk of being construed as a pretentious self-important braggart. At this point…so what!!…I’m tired, excited and eager to share! Over the past two months I (in collaboration with many incredible people) have: Released the first version of JoynIn in the Bay Area for private testing (much [...]
Share About three months back I got a Facebook message from a guy named Jake Sasseville that read: hey — zach hurst tells me i need to know you? true? I wrote back: “Need”…tough to say . But I’m sure it would be great if we knew eachother! Heard you’re going to be in SF. Feel [...]
Share Over the past couple months I have been keeping close tabs on my actions and the actions of others. Since I am committed to creating incredible results in all I do, I thought investigating these actions would be a great place to start. To create results, action is required. Simple, yes, but there is [...]
Share After searching the term “Burn Ships” in Google I can see I am not the only one to touch on this familiar ”how to be successful” anecdote. But hey…just because it’s played often does not mean it’s played out (I mean how many times have you listened to “Regulators”?…timeless) The “burning of the ships” came about [...]
