You don't have to be a naturally good writer to write and sell books.

Fail forward. It's the challenge and overcoming the failure that's fun.

Niche websites are doing well at 10k hits a month.

Amazon is a search engine.

Do the research and see if your book going to be successful before you write it.

Develop a skill. Having one thing you're an expert at is more effective than being a jack of all trades.

You have to know people to find the positions that aren't publicly posted.

Being shy is not an excuse, you are losing a lot of opportunities.

There is no such thing as a permanent job. Every company in every industry has some level of volatility.

Keep your LinkedIn profile updated at least yearly.

It's not about "collecting" people into your social network, it's about connecting with them as people.

At a networking event, try to make one solid new relationship.

TradeLive, a recently launched Austin-based startup, is a modern business-to-business marketplace for new and used IT gear aimed at eliminating the pitfalls that make other IT exchanges slow, unreliable and restrictive.

Horrible bosses don't have to be managers, they can be more senior people on the team.

Personal issues should be taken offline, after calming down.

If you are a junior colleague trying to resolve an issue with a more senior colleague, find another senior individual to act as a mediator.

Developer to tech lead is a huge jump and changes the expectations.

Try new things you don't know anything about. Putting yourself outside of your comfort zone makes you work harder to be productive.

In uncomfortable situations you have to rely on others and build teams.

In some cultures, the big boss is the big boss. The boss never asks, just commands.

Take the team out to lunch and establish rapport and promise them they won't get fired for speaking up.

People can get unmotivated because they are busy working on 10 things but don't know the priorities.

Ben Bostic is an experienced, cross-industry Software Executive & Product Architect. Survivor. Artist. Life is my favorite medium. Every day is a blank page. Wanderlustful.

Ben was one of 155 survivors on the US Airways Flight 1549 from NY La Guardia Airport to Charlotte Douglas International which experienced an emergency water landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.

So you want to start a roleplaying game? First, you need to find a group. Test out combinations of players by playing board games before starting a campaign.

This is part 1 in a multi-part series.

Entrepreneurship is about fulfillment, purpose and impact and earning an income that allows freedom and financial abundance.

You wont have the persistence and hustle unless it aligns with your purpose.

Don't feel bad about working full time and working on the side hustle.

Most people start and stop several businesses before they land on one.

Don't force it just because you want it.

We are all put on the planet to make an impact and all have talent, dreams. You were given these things for a reason.

The public is educating themselves about real estate which is a good thing, but they may be missing vital information.

The process of buying a house is much more complicated than what they show on HGTV.

Every real estate market is extremely localized.

Pros for working with a real estate agent

After a close-call with a hippopotamus while canoeing in Africa, Tim Barnes celebrated life with African artists and artisans by commissioning a custom, hand-crafted “hippo chair”. After 25 years of consulting and leading IT organizations, Tim decided to give back to a third-world community — but more than aid — by creating awareness and business opportunities via first-world marketing channels and old-school import/export legwork.