Chances are if you have an email address, you’ve received a spam email or two spouting off some crazy message similar to the title of this post. Most likely you immediately dismissed the idea as sheer lunacy and clicked delete.

The goal of KirkHatesWork is to provide a venue to document my journey from an employee breaking free from the rigors of 9-5 life to a financially secure and self employed entrepreneur, but I have never actually shared how I plan to go about doing so. Many entrepreneurs have come before me attempting a similar feat, and there have been just as many opinions about the best way to do so. The following is mine…

I can not tell you how angry I get using the automated phone systems large corporations have put in place. They are usability nightmares. I have been hung up on, stuck in endless loops, and even listened to the system crash as the voice read off its last dying error messages; the systems are slow, they never understand what it is you are saying,

Guy Kawasaki is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, marketer and all around business guru. He recently gave a speech at the 2009 NAIS Annual Conference a conference for teachers that included a great list of lessons he has learned along the way to become truly innovative – in business, in education, in life.

How do you get hundreds of thousands of page views, and priceless media coverage for your brand?

Replace your homepage with a twitter search.

In an interesting move along the social media scene, Skittles, the candy company replaces its homepage with a search for Skittles on twitter.

Everyone has their favorite 5 tips for this and for that… I wouldn’t say these are the holy grail or anything, but they are pretty timely…

5 Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs Via ReadWriteWeb

But the real nugget is the last line: So the advice of the day? Stop paying $5 for a latte, invest in a basic coffee machine and start innovating.

This is an awesome little app I found today called Silverback, from www.clearleft.com, in the UK.

I have owned www.thegreenhouseeffect.org for about 3 years now with the master plan of turning it into a hip social network for sharing information about all things green, environmentally friendly and sustainable in architecture, and design.

I am reading a book, Growing A Business and it talks about how your life should be your business. Your business has to be so intertwined with who you are and what you are interested in that there is almost a gray area of where one begins and the other ends. And I [...]

Kirkhateswork.com has recently been featured in a documentary titled “School’s Out.” The film follows a group of students and recent graduates through their daily lives as they prepare for their transition from College to the real world.