First Project Post: Small Presence

by Brenden on Jan. 8, 2009, under My Thoughts
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In keeping this blog up to date with my personal start-up efforts, I now proudly introduce to you Small Presence.

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Connected: It’s Who Knows YOU

by Brenden on Dec. 28, 2008, under Business
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Perhaps this is nothing profound, but the old saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” needs to be revised.

In a world that is so well connected, almost to its demise, it’s no longer who you know, it’s who knows you.

How many people reading this know Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, Barrack Obama and so on. All of these personas are influential in their field. Thanks to the Internet and various portals within it, we know quite a bit about them, even on a personal level. But who cares who you know. It means nothing.

Do you want to get your ideas out there? Do you want to be criticized? Do you want to have an audience that cares about what you have to say? It doesn’t matter how much you want those things. What matters is that people know you.

The Question

How do you get someone to know you?

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Genesis

by Brenden on Dec. 6, 2008, under My Thoughts
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The year is 2008. Technology has lead mankind to a new age of thinking. Life is now fully automated by electrons and protons which carry seemingly endless spurts of information through a series of wires and airwaves. Ideas are in free flow.

Advent Assured is a repository for the relatively small amount of these ideas; my ideas.

I will spare you the lengthy details of an introductory post. Instead, take a look at “About the Advent” to find out what the future holds for this blog.

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