Erich Stauffer

  • Synchronicity: Axis of the Universe is Oriented to “Sextans” Constellation

    TL;DR: The universe has an axis and the direction of that axis from Earth is toward a constellation named after a tool to find the orientation of stars. According to this 1997 article, All Space is Not Equal: Physicists Find Axis that Gives the Universe Orientation, “From Earth, the axis of this orientation runs toward…

  • Intro to Essential Oils: The Starter Kit

    Are you interested in learning about essential oils? My wife and I have found essential oils to be a great blessing in our house to keep people healthy and the house clean. The uses of essential oils in the house never cease to amaze me. How to get started with essential oils? I always recommend a Premium…

  • The 10 Best Cities for Starting a Business in 2015

    According to a Forbes slideshow, the 10 best cities for starting a business in the United States is based on: Average revenue of businesses Percentage of businesses with paid employees Number of businesses per 100 people Unemployment rate It’s unclear as to what order these cities are supposed to be in or what makes these…

  • Perspectives from the End of a Generation

    As a person born in 1980, I fall at the end of Generation X and the beginning of Generation Y or the Millennial Generation. This gives me a unique perspective on life that I’d like to share from my generation. Sometimes it can be fun to get a little perspective. Age gives us this view.…

  • Why I’m Going to Mixwest 2014

    Mixwest is an Indianapolis marketing, design, and technology convention with speakers and multi-track sessions spread out over two days: July 31-August 1, 2014. I’m going to meet new people and see old friends. I first went to Mixwest in 2011 when it was called “Blog Indiana“. Half of all of the people I follow on…

  • 2014 Trends in Technology

    We’re just about 50% through the year and a few people have been releasing new reports on trends so I thought I’d highlight some things here: Mobile – while the ability to make money from apps may be harder now, the use of mobile devices is only going up (1,2). The future of mobile is…

  • A Passion for Soil

    While in West Lafayette at the Han Institute project meeting I was introduced to a man who claimed to have a passion for soil and how it relates to plants, animals, and humans. He was a project manager by trade, most recently working for Eli Lilly through BCForward in Indianapolis. He’s a reflexologist on the…

  • Grain Harvest? More like Great Harvest!

    I recently wrote about how I typically work and network in Indianapolis and while it started out as a way to discuss how to get the most out of little pieces of the city (what in my mind I call “hacking the day”), it ended up being more about networking and how I spend a…

  • Indianapolis Networking with BNI and Rainmakers

    Yesterday, I wrote about attending an Indianapolis networking group called Linking Indiana, but recently I have joined both BNI (Business Networking International) and Rainmakers. I go to the BNI in Carmel, Indiana called “Network Masters”. It’s a referral group where only one person from each professional specialty is allowed. This means that there can’t be…