Dying For Lost Causes

65 year old Mehdi Shahbazi passed away last week, ending a several year war he had going on with Shell Oil. Mehdi claimed that Shell Oil has been manipulating gas prices and in 2005 posted signs all over his gas stations notifying his customers of his beliefs. In retaliation, Shell Oil first stopped supplying him gas and then took away his franchise.

In an effort to drum up attention to his plight, Mehdi decided to go on a liquid only fast. The only problem is that no one it seems, including the oil giant, cared. In September Mehdi died of his self inflicted food restriction and received barely a mention in the media.

Built on a House of Cards

I’ve always maintained that you can make money doing anything which is why you should always opt to do something you love. Even if doing what you love won’t make you a multibillionaire, your life will be all the more richer for having pursued your dreams.

Using a basic knowledge of geometry and physics, Bryan Berg makes his living from building skyscrapers out of decks of cards. Trained as an architect, he has been making these amazing creations for fifteen years and finding his way into the Guinness Book of World Records for first tallest house of cards and then for the world’s largest card structure.

Stop Being a Google Slave

Exploring a few blogs today, I’m seeing a reoccurring theme that has to do with Google’s recent PageRank update. Google, it seems, is being aggressive in its war against paid link ads and devaluing websites who sell them.

PageRank is a sort of meter that Google uses to signify how relevant or trustworthy the content is on a particular web page/website. The theory that most website owners and web marketers work with is that when people use a search engine to look for information about a subject that they will not look past the first two pages of results. Therefore it is best to be ranked within the first one to two pages of the results. Google’s PageRank supposedly tells a website owner where their site/page ranks on the first page of results. So if your site/page rank is a 3, that means it will be listed third on the page starting from the bottom.

How to Make a Billion Dollars in One Easy Step

People like to try and make you think that making money is this hard and complicated thing. It really isn’t and anyone who says differently is probably trying to sell you something.

In all actuality, making, say a billion dollars is quite possibly the easiest thing you could do in life. It is so easy that you can do it one step and I won’t even charge you to share with you what that step is.

Entrepreneurial Inspiration

I am addicted to entrepreneurship. I dream of owning my own business but lack the self confidence to launch myself off the side of that cliff without being 100% certain that the parachute on my back will open. Which, of course, is impossible. Only two things in life are guaranteed. Death and taxes and with technology advancing at the speed of light, I’m not so sure about death.