About

rahul_panchal

My Background

Here’s a little background on where I’m coming from.

I’m a new father. My little girl will be born in two months. On top of that, I’m CEO and co-founder of a startup.Prometheus Springs on LinkedIn My little invention has been on sale for about 8 months as of today. Essentially I have two children. I have somehow decided to take on a level of responsibility that confuses, and frightens others. How did I get this way?

According to my parents, my first word was Pepsi, and based on birth records held at the State of California, I was welcomed into this world at hospital pretty close to Disney Land. Hang on, hopefully this will make sense in a bit… keep reading.

For about half a decade I worked my ass off at the top advertising agencies in the world. I won every international advertising award worth mentioning, and built up quite a fancy portfolio along the way. The whole time I was always scouring the web, and the knowledge of the world looking for new ideas and inspiration to convert into clever new advertising ideas.
Along the way I did more than just observe, I became inspired to push beyond advertising, to push beyond what my parents and teachers taught and told me to do, and to do more than just help big companies make more money. I became an observer. And it became clear to me that this is the most important aspect of personal growth.

A big part of my growth was starting a band. We rocked out, partied …alot… and put the worst album up on iTunes. It was a huge living parody of my life in Miami. Around the same time I also got some patents for some world changing technology that will hopefully lead to a nobel prize or something like that. I also launched a revolutionary new beverage called Prometheus Springs that’s healthy, organic, refreshing, spicy and… it makes you happy! It’s on sale in organic natural foods stores across the country, including Whole Foods, Wegmans, Earth Fare and other places like that. Check it out!

Anyways – the same random weirdz that inspired me to leave Corporate America, quit my job and grab life by the balls is the same random stuff that’s here, on this blog. It’s the stuff that motivates me, and hopefully through this you’ll be able to find the stuff that motivates you. So I hope something in here inspires you to win a nobel peace prize, save the world, cure a disease or just make someone laugh. Because really, spreading happiness and doing the best we can for each other is all we’ve got.
Good luck with everything, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this 4th grade reading level article and I hope something in this blog can help catalyze something in you.

All the Best,
Rahul

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Current Projects:
prometheussprings CEO, President

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Past Projects I’ve helped breathe to life:
akatoo.com
buckleydatagroup.com
thegurdle.com

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Networks:
twitter
Linkedin
Facebook
aSW

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Press:
Miami New Times Article
Cool Hunting Feature
NOTCOT Feature
WATD Radio Interview

Wall Street Journal Thing…

About Fat Muffin
Deco Drive

PSFK Inspiration Interview

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I’m confused as to why solar technology is taking so long

Carl Sagan on Time Travel

NOVA: Let’s start with the crux of the matter. What for you is time?

Sagan: Ever since St. Augustine, people have wrestled with this, and there are all sorts of things it isn’t. It isn’t a flow of something, because what does it flow past? We use time to measure flow. How could we use time to measure time? We are stuck in it, each of us time travels into the future, one year, every year. None of us to any significant precision does otherwise. If we could travel close to the speed of light, then we could travel further into the future in a given amount of time. It is one of those concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition.

NOVA: Do you think that backwards time travel will ever be possible?

Sagan: Such questions are purely a matter of evidence, and if the evidence is inconsistent or insufficient, then we withhold judgment until there is better evidence. Right now we’re in one of those classic Details »

When we look into the past we see without a doubt but when we cut into the present and future will leak out. – Unknown

Fractal Zoom

Reality crushing fractal zoom…

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were “actually” traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

“Language is a Virus From Outerspace” – Leary

Diplo on Display

James Webb Space Telescope in NYC

Earlier this week I was wondering, “why are all the amazing astrological and deep space discoveries being ignored by the media?” I mean, in the last 12 months we discovered ice on Venus, Mars and the Moon. Why isn’t that ALL over the news? Anyways, I did some searching around I am now in love with astronomynow.com. The amount of mind blowing amazingness on there is numbing. I just finished reading about a star that we have been tracking, apparently a planet got to close to it, and it is in the process of eating it. The planets atmosphere got swollen and there is a ring of debris orbiting this monster sun. The planet is so close that it’s covering a whole orbit in 1.1 days. That’s INSANE… it take us a whole year. I also read about the Japanese program to build a robotic moon base, built by robots, for robots. WHY IS THIS NOT ALL OVER THE NEWS!?!?! That’s sooo much cooler and interesting than anything regarding Brittany Spear’s. But the highlight of my day of deep space exploration has been the discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope. If you have not already heard, NASA is retiring the Hubble space telescope. The image on the background of this site was taken by the Hubble, and it’s given us a ton of new understanding into the workings of our universe. The Hubble used to hang out around the moon and take pictures from there. The James Webb is going to orbit about a million miles from Earth. From that vantage point it will look deep into space and further back IN TIME to observe the universe when stars and galaxies were just beginning to form. It also will be instrumental in finding Earth-like planets around other stars and gain more information on dark matter, which comprises nearly 95% of all matter in the universe. HOLEY SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!?!?!?!?!??!

Anyways, if you want to see a life size model of this amazing device that’s going to advance our human understanding of the universe, the James Webb makes its next “World Tour” stop in New York City’s Battery Park, as part of the World Science Festival, June 1-6. I’ll be there.

Superfood: Chilli

Men’s Health: Learn the benefits of chilli – plus make a sexy salsa

Why you want it:

Next time you unwittingly crunch through a piece of chilli while eating a stir-fry, take those few moments as you wait for the impending inferno in the back of your throat to reach full force, to consider this. The heat you’re feeling is due to capsaicin, a compound that’s been found to fight prostate cancer cells, help prevent cardiovascular disease and assist with insulin control. Sure, it’s small comfort when your mouth is burning like a Brit at Bondi, but hey, if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the Thai/Mexican/Korean restaurant, you fool. Use chilli to spice up marinades, salsas, casseroles, dips, pasta sauces and salads.

Sexy Salsa

1 tbsp olive oil
1 brown onion, finely chopped
1 long red chilli, finely chopped
1 small green capsicum, finely diced
1 tbsp tomato paste

500g tomatoes, diced

Method
Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, for three to four minutes or until soft. Add chilli and capsicum. Cook for two minutes or until tender. Stir in tomato paste and tomatoes. Bring mixture to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer uncovered for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool and serve with nachos, crackers or bread.

Essential Ryde

HOVERBOARD – NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.

How can we lower the overall US demand for gas?

There has not been a new refinery built in the U.S. since 1976. The existing refineries have been upgraded over the last 30 years to support some higher production, but also to make the product safer and cleaner. This last week I was thinking, “How can we lower the overall US demand for gas?”. How much gas is used just trucking gas from the refinery to the pump? Could it all be pipelines instead? I don’t know… but I’m hoping we can find a way to get more economical with our fuel consumption.