Jobs, Woz, Cook: A Tale of 3 Leadership Archetypes

One of the hardest things about running a business is human resources.  Picking the right person for a job can literally mean life or death for a company, especially as you move higher up the food chain.  Some may argue that a CEO is little more than a figurehead and the real heart and brains…

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Wormhole Monogamy

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #33 4 January 2014 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2014/STEAM_0033_4JAN14.mp3 Arduino Yun Digital Calipers from Amazon Open Collector Circuits New Wormhole Theorized Could Life on Earth Have Started on Mars? Ford to Preview Solar Panel Powered Car at CES New Jet Engine Concept Old Tech Meets New Tech to Help Patients Recover New Computer Architecture: Neural Processing…

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Boy Scout STEAM Merit Badges

As an (older) Eagle Scout who has been removed from scouting for a few years, I was excited to see a bunch of new tech related merit badges being offered started in 2014.  In my career as a Scout by earning merit badges such as Radio, Electricity, and Electronics, I found a passion that would…

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Energy Company Sings You Aren’t My Sunshine

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #32 29 December 2013 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0032_29DEC13.mp3 MIT App Inventor Practical Electronics for Inventors Utility Companies Fight Back on Solar Power Metamaterials and Wave Shaping Battery Chargers Are About To Get TIny | FINsix 3D Printed Batteries Water Geysers of Europa Best Scientific Visualizations of 2013 [Download] Check out our YouTube Channel and week’s video podcast here. For…

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Your Electrons Are So Round…

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #31 22 December 2013 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0031_22DEC13.mp3 Round Electron != Supersymmetry Solar Cell Windows What You Doing, Google? (With Them Robots) Fountain of Youth [Download] Bare with us, we are launching this podcast as a YouTube Channel and so the production quality this week is a little off as we learn to acclimate to…

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Priesthood in the Engineering Profession

Latin was widely used in the Catholic religion as a way to disenfranchise the masses thus elevating the priesthood and the church to an undue empowered status.  Luckily those days are behind us.  Unfortunately that hasn’t stopped humans from seeking to retain special status over their fellow man.  A lot of professions seek to unduly…

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Cars and Curmudgeonry

I am convinced that on the day the bow-and-arrow was invented there were people who insisted it was not a sustainable because you’d run out of arrows.  Therefore they will stick with their wooden clubs.  But you know what, people still hunt with bows and as far as I know clubs seem to have gone out…

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Terminator Sperm

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #30 15 December 2013 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/2013/STEAM_0030_15DEC13.mp3 Google Thinking About Making It’s Own Microchips  |  ASICs The Terminator Sperm Army Taking 3D Printing To The Next Level Rethinking Particle Physics [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog or follow along on Google+.  Or listen on iTunes. Music by Halloween, available at http://freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0…

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Can You Hack It As An Entrepreneur?

Throughout my life I have always been amazed at the fact that truth is almost always the exact opposite of what is intuitively obvious.  Nowhere is that more true than in the world of entrepreneurship.  Being able to call one’s self an “entrepreneur” has become one of the most desirable cliches in the last few…

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What Type Of Leader Will You Be?

People are born with leadership traits, but that doesn’t inherently make them a leader.  Thus leaders can’t be born, only made and the best are forged in the fires of failure.  It’s easy to lead in success, it’s exponentially harder to lead people in difficult times because it is in those times then true human…

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