I enjoy reading, but in the past I haven't set aside enough time to dedicate to it. That's been changing and I've been reading a fair bit more over the past 6 months or so. That fact must have leaked out to all the presenters at the Pressnomics conference last month because there were a…
It was almost 2 years ago when I put a request out on Twitter, I wanted to start a podcast, I just didn’t want to be in charge of producing it each week. To me, that seemed like the hard part. I just wanted to pop in, record the episode and let somebody else worry about…
Like a lot of kids, my daughter loved cartoons growing up. Now in her early 20s, her interest in cartoons hasn’t fallen off at all. If anything, it’s grown even stronger. But for her, it’s not just about watching cartoons. She loves to learn all there is to know about the people behind the cartoons.…
It's a little after 10:30 on Tuesday evening and I'm tapping my foot like crazy. I just edited (for the 10th time) a blog post that's scheduled to publish tomorrow morning at 9am. Why isn't it tomorrow yet?!? Tom Petty said it best, “The waiting is the hardest part” This post is 2+ years in…
Last year my buddy Scott invited my wife and me to do a few fitness challenges. The first one involved doing roughly 6000 burpees in honor of soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I skipped that challenge, but Scott and Chris both completed it, which was absolutely amazing. The second challenge, which…
Late last year I was introduced to an iPhone app called Untappd. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s an app that lets you rate and check-in the beers you drink. The app gives you badges for doing things like checking in beers on holidays, checking in a certain number of unique beers, checking in beers…
CrossFit: Getting your ass kicked and showing up tomorrow to do it all over again
It's been a while now, but I used to play beer-league ice hockey on a pretty regular basis. That slowed down a bunch once I moved to Las Vegas. Then when I hurt my knee in 2007 training for the half-marathon, I went ahead and got rid of all my equipment that had been gathering…
Today, I made a mistake. OK, that's not news. I make several mistakes every day. But today's mistake cost my company a client. More about that in a minute, first I want to tell you a quick story. A few years back I had a call lined up with a potential client. About 15 minutes…