If your workspace is rectangular in any way, you are a failure. We’re all friends here so let’s just be brutally honest. Ninety degree angles are feng shui code for a life devoid of all happiness. Parallel surfaces are a direct path to a devastating erosion of the soul. We hold these truths to be [...]

I don’t participate in economic downturns. In the company I was running in 2008, one of my first acts at the beginning of the recession talk was to introduce a corporate resolution stating that we respectfully declined to take part in any recession. Of course, that’s meaningless from an economic level. Our surrounding realities are our...

Monetizing something you’re passionate about isn’t passion. Go ahead and drink the kool-aid, but it’s lie. Okay, it’s not necessarily a lie, but the promise is a lie. Stop telling everyone that making money off your passions is as good as it gets. After a few months of blogging, I can (still) say that I’m not...

Yeah, I know… I’m so thee years ago. I’m nostalgic as hell for Myspace. While I totally heart nostalgia in its own right, that’s not the reason the demise of Myspace is disappointing. Myspace was a super-useful tool for long-term travel. Long-term is probably not the best term, but I don’t know the right word...

From the simple things that have cost me zillions file… There’s a reason napkins with ink scribbled on them resonate. I firmly believe that there’s one clear thing I’ve neglected over the years that would have totally altered my life. That thing is a habit… writing down ideas. This is something I’ve been doing religiously lately that [...]

Warning: Official permission to do something productive and profitable online other than writing/blogging follows. If your world will be shattered by the idea that there’s more to life than blogging, close your eyes before reading further. You’re sneaking a few minutes on the web from your cubicle trying to find a way out of [...]