Glory and Recognition
Some thrive on glory and recognition. I’ve found that I have little interested in glory. I do not seek to build a billion dollar company like every tech crunch and news article I read tells me I do. I may aspire to help a billion people but not build a billion dollar...
Home Improvement & Ownership – 2 Months In
It's been about 2 months since the purchase of a home, I've detailed the first few projects tackled here, and while I haven't slowed down, I've fully internalized how much of a marathon this is, or rather, how much it's NOT a sprint. I clearly exhausted myself the...
Think of Writing, Coding, and Creating Like Dating to Be More Productive
i'm not in the place to write, i'm just not, i think to myself. i'm at work, in a shared working environment, i'm not in a world of possibilities and potential, ready to explain and explore in words. a day job is not the place to create words…you can respond,...
Home Improvement: First 7 Projects
What do carpet removal, tree trimming, cable management, furnace room clean out, bidet removal, thermostat upgrading, and behind the fridge cleaning have in common? They all consumed my first week of home improvement, and I learned something from all of them. Sat,...
I Tried to Scale Happiness
Can happiness be boiled down to a number? Happiness can mean a lot of different things for everyone, but I've come to think it generally consists of three things. Health [fitness, exercise, food] Relationships [god, family, friends, clients, animals even] Freedom...
Google Vault “Retention” Policy Deletes E-mail
The following is a story of how Google Vault, [a service from Google meant to prevent users in Google Apps from deleting e-mail without any chance of recovery] deleted tens of thousands of e-mails. I'll cut to the chase, my issue here is that Google's idea of a...
How to Be a Yardstick of Quality, Like My Brother
Want to make the world a better place? What if everyone you knew came to you for how things should be? This happens for my brother. One way my older brother inspires me, is with the amount of people and companies that have given and continue to give him a statement...
Developing a “for the Lord” Habit
i've been working on my habits lately, looking at ones i have consciously made, subconsciously have, and ones to develop. i write out my tasks in a "today" note each day, and have been encouraged to add value to them lately. a task in itself isn't worth much, but the...
Buy into the hype, inspire, and stop caring about your services page so much
Commenting on those that you compare yourself to... they use information to inspire action, not take on the action themselves. they master that. working this through in my mind live, right now as i type helps me get behind creating more information only driven...
What is a Great Day?
Noah Kagan examined what a great day actually looked like on his blog and I liked the exercise, here's what I came up with. what's a great day look like for me? plenty of sleep, 7 hours+ waking earlier than needed for any commitments [work, projects, calls] 7am...