[DSM: Post 2] — Now that’s Innovation

As stated on the article about how to get startup ideas,  the best startups have three things in common:

1. they’re something the founders themselves want,
2. they themselves can build it and
3. few others realize it’s worth doing.

The company I’m focusing on is Apple, Inc.

Apple has successfully built a philosophy of cool, fun, smart, and sleek as the platform of its products. This allows for it to show, not tell, why its products are the best — without being overburdening on the customers.

Steve Jobs was successful at:

• making connections,
• saying no to things that he knew weren’t for him,
• putting a dent in the universe,
• following his passion,
• creating insanely different experiences,
• mastering the message and 
• selling dreams, not products.

This allowed him to design a simple design, a simple philosophy, amplify the message with passion, and thus it became a streamlined, easy to fall for company which designed products which it was successfully able to convince people they needed (through letting the people try out the products in the stores so they become attached, for example).

This allowed Apple the correct formula to becoming successful entrepreneurs in the Digital Media Startup world.

[DSM: Part 1] — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

What does “entrepreneur” mean to you?  What entrepreneurial skills do you feel you have or don’t have?

For me, I sat and contemplated these broad questions, waiting for an answer to plop into my head, outlet through my fingers, onto the keyboard, and end up here, where it would reach your eyes. After letting my thoughts settle down, I sifted through a few lists of entrepreneurial qualities on Fast Company and Entrepreneur.  I then drew similarities between the qualities which resonated with me the most and the qualities which caused me the most friction.

Plugging my ego into this equation and looking at a list of qualities that makeup an entrepreneur and a list of common characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, I found that some key characteristics of an entrepreneur that I feel I have are:

1. Optimism: I’m very proud of my optimism. It allows me to expect the best out of any situation, and thus, I become ambitious and become enabled to direct my passion in a direction which can benefit me.
2. Tolerance for risk: I’m comfortable living life on the edge, and taking risks which I feel optimistic about. I carefully plan and weight out the risks, and set a course of action to follow. If any stresses occur, I confront them, embrace them, then neutralize them. 
3. Passion:  I have lots of passion to direct towards subjects I love. I’ve always heard people telling me that if I want to be happy, be sure to pursue an occupation which is inclusive of subjects you fin yourself most consistently drawn to. Duly noted; my passions shall be distributed effectively.
4. Remember it’s all about the customer: Working register at Trader Joe’s on a regular basis has given me a vehicle to practice communicating with the masses on the ground level, which I feel will pay off down the line.

Some key characteristics of an entrepreneur I could work on are:

1. Raw Talent: I need to apply my raw talent towards tools and mediums which  will allow me to effectively express myself, and outlet my ideas in a multitude of manners so I can have a better all around picture of it. Hence, why I chose Public Relations as my major, so I can effectively apply my ideas in fresh and compelling ways.
2. Competitive advantage: I don’t have the advantage of knowing what my start-up will revolve around as of yet, and thus, I have yet to find how much leverage I have in the market. I do tend to creatively conceive of creative approaches to a variety of subjects, but as of now, that specific idea has yet to bare itself before me.
   
3. Leadership: As J. K. Rowling mentions in one of her Harry Potter books, “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.” Thus, I seek to always remain modest with my leadership until proven otherwise, and be a leader from the ground up. Thus, the guiding characteristics in which I speak softly, yet carry a big stick is a fine-lined horizon I’m becoming more and more homeostatic and focused upon as time passes by.
4. Become a shameless self-promoter: There’s a part of me that refrains from always including what I’m passionate about, feeling that I will sacrifice this opportunity of a genuine human interaction by trying to capitalize on it. I shall overcome this.

Thanks for checking out my traits of successful entrepreneurs, and I hope that you learned a thing or two about what kinds of qualities I can bring to the table, and what kinds of traits I can work on.

Good luck on your entrepreneurial adventures!

What is N-P-K?

The ratio of the three main, necessary nutrients (also known as macronutrients) in organic fertilizer or soil amendments. The ratio refers to the percentage of each prevalent in the fertilizer.

• N = Nitrogen
• P = Phosphorus
• K = Potassium (from English “potash”)

Organic fertilizers come from things that were once alive. An organic N-P-K fertilizer can be slow releasing or quick releasing. Most organic fertilizers are slow release.

They can have quick releasing “labile” nutrients, or slow releasing “recalcitrant” nutrients.

Why are N, P, & K important?

• Nitrogen
  • Basically: Leaf growth
  • Used in new shoots, buds, and leaves
  • Essential for plant growth.
  • Affects vegetable growth and general health
• Phosphorus
  • Basically: Root formation, stem growth, and fruiting
  • Important for healthy roots
  • Used more heavily during blooming and seed set
  • Needs a balanced pH to be available to the plant
  • Released through decomposing matter
• Potassium
  • Basically: Flowering and plant immunity
  • Helps with general health of plant
  • Ties in with fruit formation
  • Assists with disease prevention
  • Helps with chlorophyll prediction
  • Helps create efficient water use for plant
  • Creates quality plants

How to recognize a plant’s needs for these?

• Nitrogen
  • Lack of:
    • Yellowing of older leaves
    • slowing or stopping of plant growth
  • Excess:
    • extremely fast growth, creating spiny and weak plant
    • dark green leaves
• Phosphorus
  • Lack of:
    • dull green leaves and purplish stems
    • plant is generally unhealthy, sometimes even yellowing
    • lack of blooming with lush green foliage
• Potassium
  • Lack of:
    • hard to recognize
    • plants overall sick
      • little fruit
      • yellowing from older branches upwards
      • sickly blooms

What are organic forms of N, P, & K to add to the soil?

• Nitrogen
  • blood meal
  • fish powder
  • composted manure
  • canola meal
  • various liquid organic fertilizers
• Phosphorus
  • rock phosphate
  • bone meal
  • various liquid organic fertilizers
    • e.g. fish emulsion
• Potassium
  • sul-po-mag (sulfate of potash magnesia, quick release)
  • greensand
  • liquid fertilizers
    • e.g. Earth Juice’s Meta-K.

Sources:

http://www.sunlightsupply.com/t-npk’sgrowing.aspx

http://blog.planetnatural.com/fertilizer-numbers/

http://www.happybacteria.com/forum/ask-vinny/organic-source-of-n-p-k/

http://www.grow-it-organically.com/npk-fertilizer.html

GMO fail: Monsanto foiled by feds, Supreme Court, and science

Monsanto is too powerful for it’s own good. It doesn’t support natural ecosystems, rather degrading the natural, biological web, so I don’t support it.

Let All Voices Be Heard

Does an ant have a voice?

It’s a fascinating thing to observe how each ant knows it’s role to play out in the colony, and that “individual” ant goes out preforming it’s duties; carrying eggs, scouting for food, digging, protecting the nest, so on and so forth. Even in times of crisis, they still know and understand their role, for example when a flash flood rolls upon fire ants, and certain ones grasp legs and bodies to form a huge blob, upon with the other ants climb unto, carrying the queen and the babies with them. Impressive, yes. Functional, yes.

But does an individual ant ever had an individual voice? Or is it rather already defined at birth, predetermined, and predictable in nature? The former of the two questions seems harder to perceive, the second more plausible. Considering the probable built-in nature provided to ants, what major contributing factors differentiate human beings from just being another brick in the wall? Let us dive into the depths of our pool of thoughts here to find just deep we may explore before we reach the dark and questionable depths of rock-bottom, and see what metaphysical truths we might unveil.

Humans can be defined as so because of our biological nature, our ability to reproduce with one another defining us as a species; we also have a pretty good grasp of defining what (or who) a human is who by what we tend to look like. One story of our path tells that rituals, agri rev, uniquely human was culture. Cultural adaptability. One of our biggest skills – culture

What about human vegetables?

What do we desire, and need?

Consciousness

Transposing

humans cant handle crisis, do we deserve this freedom? How do we use? To harness agriculture?

I put “individual” in quotations because I wonder how much free will it actually has? Consciousness is a beautiful thing. With this gift imparted upon us, we are able to

• Will hold out because
  • Feeling not fully heard
  • in specific cases
  • ex– put lengthy text, don’t get back, feel pretty frustrated
  • do understand if can’t hear from you
  • hard opening heart and knowing not fully received
    • even short text acknowledging, cant respond, appreciate it
  • don’t wanna be demanding on time
    • don’t wanna take away from what I have to do
    • don’t want wait of having to fully respond
      • my to do list is long
  • shes being considerate vs
    • trying to be content with smallest amount
    • want to feel loved by you without demanding
      • mind thinks that true that if have to remind me, then takes away from genuineness
        • even it wasn’t obligation,
  • If im taking class of her language of her heart,
    • wanted it to be enough
    • I desire to get in a A in her class
  • open that can of worms
  • it’s important to her to demonstrate what I say, not letting experiences unfold (cause don’t wanna let that fear to unfold, let guard down)
    • important to trust with what I say
    • need to see footsteps behind words
      • question: want to see footsteps behind words
    • when talk of desire , want, need, desire to be fluent, want need to be fully in tune with it
      • like hearing I desire it
      • trying to train that that’s enough
      • don’t want me to have to follow through,
      • but, important for own self to give me opportunity to see words play out
        • need to see words have meaning
      • instead of lovely pleasure
      • need to see footsteps follow words
        • let actions be demonstrated
  • also, “prioritizing, at what cost”
    • consider me too much, my thoughts
    • consider myself, but at what cost for my own heart; be considerate, but not trampled in process, or running dry
      • write down in special notebook

• when saying its enough, it’s fiine,
  • a way of keeping at a distance
  • too good to be true
• little nagging head that says too good to be true
  • Expect floor to collapse any second
  • has been pure.
  • Being grounded because what is known to be true
  • not dismissing it because

• integratations of past thoughts into present day
• worst case scenario: get to know ourselves better
  • best case scenario: grow wildly
• view for her: see out across the beauty landscapes, because took steps to get there
  • palm trees, beach
  • climbing mountain; took effort to get where you and I are
    • growth isnt always conmvortable; called growing pains
    • break, once settled down, rearranged,; stronger, more refined the higher we go, the mountain eventually gets to point, peak
      • higher up mountain, the closer we get
    • may I be that nurturing green thumb heart
• geysers in the backdrop, let you know when
• pretty amazing to her the way I can put such a lovely spin on simople of things
  • even make biggest things feel obtainable to her
  • how character is very consistent all the time
  • go above and beyond what she would expect for her, make comfortable for her to say and know that I care about her; don’t say it, color it, write it, sing it, a lot of expressions to say what one word can say
• ^lil bubbles popping up in mind. This conversation and others
• interact– communions

Testing

This

Order Up! 1 Serving of MindStew … .. . to go, yes?

The treasure chest lay shut before us, offering, asking, begging to be opened to reveal the priceless materials inside.

“What’s the future look like? It’s not a question of what it’ll look like, but a matter of what it’ll feel like.”

I felt proud my question was able to pry open the chest to allow some of the golden flakes of wisdom to catch in the breeze, hoping they might whisp up a&& unsuspectingly float right into the seas of squiggly lines swarming the eyes of one of the statuesque figures frozen in place, with their arms plastered to their desks. The sight of these golden flakes didn’t appear to phase (or inspire) them … .. . Ah! Perhaps they thought it was fools gold, yeah, that’s it!

I wonder if the picture I received today over satellite of a shark swimming in the front yard of a house might crack their shells,  allow them to break out of the casting holding them uniform to the  closed-off nature they’re consistently repping for a series of moments… .. . the same kind of shell people tend to fall into when they watch TV. They lie unfluctuating for the TV, so that it can serve it’s predetermined soup of flashes of lights and noises into their minds, so they can have something to sip on later if they ever get cornered in conversation and have nothing left to talk about. Popular culture.Oh popular culture, and the novel concepts it brings about tend to so easily hook the attention of an easily fascinated mind! . .. …

or waiiit a second; maybe they were dumbfounded! Perhaps the wisdom engulfed them like the mists of a breath-taking waterfall crashing down nearby, filling in every inch of the room with it’s plume of golden sparkles, yeah, that definitely has to be it!

I meticulously, mentally massage the moment — the moment void of any physical movements, all energy drawing away from the statuesque limbs of the trees and and working It’s way inside their craniums, the leaves of their Selves which reaches for the enLightening rays of sound coming their way — working it until I feel I’ve built up enough suspense, lubed up the moment enough to the point of avoiding popping the bubble of silence, as I caaaarefully, sliiiide

my hand

into

it’s awaiting environment.

“Soo. In my Environmental Sociology class, I hear the term Neoliberalism thrown around often, because it’s a prominent theme… .. . one which blossoms a lot of problems from it. A lot of the change you talk of speaks on more of a localized level though. I feel that there’s a major separation between the more localized levels of organization and the national levels of economics. Doo… .. . do you feel that creating from the bottom up through things like, what, farmers markets and local markets and such, can help lead us in a better direction?”

A couple students shudder at the solid feeling of the chair beneath them as their brainergy splashes back into their bodies, tickling their every nerve-ending with acknowledgement of the fact that the  gold-infuzed dream had been washed away by the tide as it moved back out, leaving them naked on the beach of their consciousness as they again gained the ability to see the swimming eyes around them.

“If people can see it, they can dream it. But the opposite is true as well; for if people can dream it, then they can see it. You need to have the vision first, for only then can you bring it into reality. And what that vision looks like is for your generation to figure out.”

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