Richard Branson from sun up to sun down, Sting’s secret to creativity, vision boards aren’t just for girls, the danger of success, saying goodbye to N. Joseph Woodland, learning from your elders and breaking the rules… this week’s notable news and tantalizing tidbits for young treps:
1. A day in the life of Richard Branson: If you’ve ever wondered how the entrepreneurial superstar manages to get so much done each day, check out this video. (Richard’s Blog)
2. Creative Juice: This group-brainstorming technique known as ‘semantic intuition,’ has helped the likes of Sting and Neil Simon get their creative juices flowing. (Fast Company)
3. The perils of young entrepreneurship: Tobias Rose-Stockwell, social entrepreneur and founder of Human Translation, warns of the perils of success as a young entrepreneur, and how to ‘let go’ in order to keep winning. (revolution.is)
4. Too cool for vision boards? Visualizing your dreams is an important step to realizing them, but doing that everyday can be difficult. Smiley Poswolsky, Bold Academy director and vision board convert talks about how the exercise isn’t as stupid as it seems. (What’s Up Smiley)
5. Entertainment 2.0: Filmmaker and frequent Justin Bieber collaborator Jon M. Chu lays out the five most important innovations in entertainment of 2012. If you haven’t heard of Machinima, you’ll thank us. (Mashable)
6. Older and wiser: Design student and blogger Kai Perez praises Core-77 design forum aimed at connecting industry professional with students eager to learn from their elders. (Core 77)
7. ‘DoNotTrack’ tools in focus: Get proactive with your online privacy. If you don’t like advertisers knowing your every online move, consider these anti-tracking tools. (WebMonkey)
8. Inside the ‘Change Generation’: Making money while giving back, these seven young entrepreneurs from around the globe are changing the world with their businesses. Find out how. (Co.Exist)
9. Rules young treps should break: No offense to your parents, but sometimes they dished out some seriously crappy advice. Here are three lessons on life you should forget immediately. (Business 2 Community)
10. Bye Bye Bar-Code (inventor): N. Joseph Woodland, inventor of the Bar Code, died at age 91. He helped bring about the technology that revolutionized the retail industry and today is etched across just about every product we use. (New York Times)
