M. David Green

hacktheprocess.com — Serial startup founder and lifestyle entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur has made a career out of discovering amazing people and helping them share their ideas with the world, from more than a decade running Le Web, a tech conference in Paris, to launching a new company called Leade.rs this year.

hacktheprocess.com — Ask Kate Swoboda what it takes to start a business and she'll tell you it takes courage. In fact, courage is such a central element in her message that she often goes by the name Kate Courageous.

hacktheprocess.com — Brennan Dunn is on a mission to get freelancers to start thinking of themselves as business consultants. His company, Double Your Freelancing, grew out of his own experiences moving from independent developer to running his own agency, launching and selling a software-as-a-service product, and eventually publishing books and classes and running conferences designed to help other people selling their services learn the tricks he discovered along the way.

hacktheprocess.com — Andrew Nance is a Mindful Practitioner who enjoys bringing the gift of using the breath to focus the mind and body to classrooms of students as young as four and five years old.

hacktheprocess.com — Alex De Simone is a serial entrepreneur who helped found the popular job search site Jobr, which is optimized to support both candidates and recruiters. He's currently launching his second company, CallerZen, based on insights about how millennials expect customer support to work. And he's still just in his second year of an MBA program at Stanford.

hacktheprocess.com — In this episode we hear from Vinay Patankar, the CEO of Process Street, an online service to help businesses set up intuitive training programs for tasks and processes using checklist-based workflows that can be sequenced, shared, and reproduced in parallel.

hacktheprocess.com — In this episode, we hear some wise words from Coach Malek Banoun, a fitness and life coach combining physical training with support for personal goal setting and continuous learning. Malek tells us how he overcame his shyness as a child, and emerged with the confidence to face his fears head-on, preferring to sprint directly toward them as soon as he recognizes them instead of running away!

hacktheprocess.com — In this episode we chat with Paula Jenkins, a transformational life coach with a background in project management who decided to apply her practical experience to the universal quest for joy. She's also the host of a podcast called Jumpstart Your Joy, where she talks with people about the ways they make joy part of their lives.

hacktheprocess.com — This episode we talk with Pace Smith, a pathfinding coach who helps sensitive spiritual nonconformists live wild crazy meaningful lives. We'll find out more about how she bridges the profound with the practical. Pace will tell us what pathfinding means, and how the motivation to seek and reconnect regularly with your own path relates to balancing both material and spiritual life practices.

hacktheprocess.com — In this episode, we hear from Adam Siddiq, a performance coach for millennials, and a podcaster who hosts the show The Soulfully Optimized Life. Adam discusses overcoming anxiety in his own life, and learning to listen to the source of his motivation to help others.

hacktheprocess.com — Tracy DeLuca her partner Chris have worked in the field of design thinking and innovation for over 17 years between them. They've helped sustain a Food Revolution and redesigned the way L.A. County votes. They've even engaged the world's most creative minds in science by turning their genes into music at TED.

medium.com — I find it deeply disturbing to watch people wringing their hands with glee as they talk about the tech bubble bursting. They say that technology companies are destroying San Francisco. They say the city is dead, and will never be what it once was.

medium.com — When you're starting to learn something new, you probably have an image in your mind of what you want to be able to accomplish. Often it's much more sophisticated than what you can manage right now. And that's fine.

medium.com — As a web developer, I wrestle constantly with the balance between good code structure and getting the job done. When compared against the idealized vision of clean code in my head, starting anything new is a challenging commitment. Making the wrong choice early on can lock a code base into a path that's difficult to change down the road.

medium.com — Recently Jaron Lanier published an opinion piece in the New York Times in response to news about a Facebook experiment. The research team from Facebook, UCSF, and Cornell demonstrated that they could manipulate emotion indicators of readers by modifying the content of their Facebook timeline feeds.

medium.com — There's a moment, soon after you click on the link to browse Kiva 's loan opportunities, when you might find yourself looking at someone else, but thinking about yourself. It's Not Charity Kiva presents all these pictures and stories, telling you the public hopes and dreams of people whose lives are radically different from your own.