Charles Forster

10+ years in software design & development, and delivered products used by hundreds of thousands of users. I'm passionate about the product creation process and building productive teams.

Passionate about personal & leadership growth for founders and entrepreneurs.

Author: Charles Forster

30-12-1 Plan
Personal Development
Charles Forster

A Year of Action – The 30-12-1 Plan

Every year millions of people proudly proclaim “New year, new me.” Filled with energy and enthusiasm for what they can become and how they can change with the new year. For some, it’s losing weight, for others simply kicking bad habits. For almost everyone, it’s a broken promise. Like clockwork, thousands of bloggers and publications

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Charles Foster's predictions for 2017 and beyond
Tech Life
Charles Forster

2017 and Beyond – Four Predictions for Technology

Now that this dumpster fire of a year is just about coming to the end, it’s time we look to next year and what we can expect. This last year was interesting to watch as we saw huge advances in technology like VR, AI, and autonomous-driving cars. Microsoft made huge strides this year in clawing

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Personal Development
Charles Forster

How Entrepreneurs Kick Up the Income Equation – What’s Your Currency?

For decades power companies have been looking into ways of storing energy after they generate it. They’ve considered ideas like industrial batteries, molten salt, pumping water in a tall structure, heat, or pressurized gas so it can be released later and converted back into energy. Essentially they’re looking into savings accounts for their energy so

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Bullets Then Cannonballs – Always Be Calibrating

A sniper is trained to hit very specific marks from a long distance away. Sounds easy, just put the crosshairs on your target and shoot right? Like most things in life, its more complicated than point and shoot and that mentality is why so many plans in business fail. In fact, that’s why a lot

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User Experience
Charles Forster

An Open Letter to Instagram. Stop Moving My Toothpaste!

Time and space are relative. My time and my space are precious. Don’t waste my time and don’t mess with my space. If I leave a personal space a particular way, I expect it to stay that way until I change it. If I come back and things are different, I have to spend time

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Attutde Over Apptitude
Personal Development
Charles Forster

Attitude Is More Important Than Aptitude

Back in 2004 the football player Terrell Owens burst into the limelight. He was picked up by the eagles and helped bring the team to the Superbowl. He was a consistent scorer and an amazing player. One of the best wide receivers ever seen in the game. Unfortunately his attitude overshadowed  his greatness. He fought

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