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Just had a discussion with a software engineer that stated the younger generation of college kids, and to a larger extent, people in general are having difficulty with their thinking processes. Namely, the difference between critical thinking and cynical thinking.

Critical thinking is where you analyze a problem and determine a solution using cause and effect of various processes. You take “no sides” of an issue and move forward with what’s best toward a vision of what’s possible.

Cynical thinking is where you lack or do not take into consideration various aspects of a problem and consider all of the alternatives to come to a logical and appropriate answer to a problem. A contemptuous or mocking attitude of various ideas or solution. Henry Ford told his engineers to work on an eight cylinder engine and they stated it could not be done. He said work on it until you solve it. It took them over a year, but they did it.

To often those in “political circles”, and we’re not just talking liberal versus conservative, but we also need to include businesses in this, both start-up and Fortune 500 companies, swap the definition of cynical and critical to fit their purposes. What is critical becomes cynical and visa versa.

So, which thinking do you have?

Here’s a great tip to use Apple’s iChat for Facebook’s chat. Like it much better.

When asking someone what they do you often hear “I work for Apple/Microsoft/IBM as a software engineer” or you hear them say “I’m a doctor/attorney for such-and-such company.” On occasion you’ll hear someone say, and somewhat with pride, “I own my own car detailing business.” At the more aggressive person they’ll say “I’m a serial entrepreneur!”

What’s a serial entrepreneur? That’s someone that has started a company and grew it until another company bought them out. In some cases, they failed and have started again. And that’s the good thing. They keep going and learn from their failures and move on.

But what I recently heard by someone was they called themselves a “Parallel Entrepreneur.” While I could figure it out myself, I had to ask what he meant by it.

He stated that he had three companies that he was working on building and was looking to add more.

So there you have it. As an entrepreneur you are a parallel entrepreneur when you have two or more companies that you are building and growing.

So, a parallel entrepreneur builds multiple streams of income. Nice.

Is this what you are striving for?

Hi all,

I’m not going to post today but I thought I’d give you a chance to tell your story about using a Mac in your startup. Tell the truth and keep it clean, ’cause we all want to hear how you’re doing.

Kevin