The day after Thanksgiving this year, I woke up a bit later than I have for most of 2020. I woke up at the same time as my wife and daughter (19mo), which meant I was also downstairs making coffee and waking up at the same time as them. As I sat in my brown […]
Today I read a great excerpt in Robert Glazer’s Friday Forward (one of my favorite newsletters). Quoting from Robert directly: There is a famous fable about Pablo Picasso that goes something like this. One evening, while enjoying a meal at a restaurant, Picasso—the world’s most influential artist at the time—was interrupted by an admirer. The […]
For two years in my mid 20s I lived in an evangelical Christian hippie commune in a tiny dairy village in Switzerland. That experience changed my life, and taught me a few important things that I think are pertinent to our current day. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I’m currently a 35 year […]
Dear reader, As an entrepreneur, I like to keep a broader eye on what’s going on in the world as it informs my business’s strategy and helps me to prepare for things happening wider that could affect my business. I’m all about being proactive instead of reactive, and this approach keeps my ever-present anxiety down. […]
I’m a skeptical person. My initial reaction when I see something happening is to think that I know better, especially when it’s something I know well (like marketing or sales or increasingly being a founder). I recently read the book Persuadable by Al Pittampalli which is, as you may guess, all about being open to […]
I just returned from CaboPress, my mentor/coach Chris Lema’s annual event in Cabo for business professionals, many of whom are in the WordPress space. Image via Chris Lema This was my third year at CaboPress, and maybe the most impactful of all three. I’ve written my other CaboPress reviews for 2017 and 2018 here and […]