Hypocrisy gets a bad rap. I’m a huge hypocrite. I believe humanity should create a robotic workforce so we can spend our lives living as intensely as possible, but I’ve spent a couple hours implementing a business idea just this evening. I believe that our political system is inherently corrupt and attempts to change it [...] Finish Reading »
As I’ve absorbed information related to various strategies for escaping the mundanity of the corporate world over the past few months, I’ve recognized a few patterns and tendencies. One of the most disturbing is advice relating to obtaining sufficiency. It strikes me that the conventional wisdom is to steadily build a business until the income [...] Finish Reading »
“I’ve been a designer for 11 years.” “We’ve been in business for 97 years.” These types of statements are batted around as if they’re meaningful. They are meaningful. They mean you’ve been a designer for 11 years or that you’ve been in business for 97 years. However, beyond that, statements of experience are worthless phrases [...] Finish Reading »
The more I read and the more I write, the clearer things become. There was a moment in which I thought reform would be sufficient… that incremental change would lead to the fulfillment I seek. Maybe that time was yesterday, maybe it was a million years in the past. The delineation of moments is no [...] Finish Reading »
There’s a recent groundswell in anti-phone menu tree vocalization. For some reason, it has become popular to expect that a human immediately answer the phone and immediately answer every question asked. Like these people, I dream of a Utopian world in which everyone at every company can answer every question I ever ask. Unlike these [...] Finish Reading »
The motivation for this post springs partially from personal annoyance, anger, disgust, or some other negative emotion. The rest comes from my strong desire protect those early in their entrepreneurial development from the fear of a bleak future sculpted by the lies and incompetence of those in positions of apparent authority. Enter the rag in [...] Finish Reading »
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 [...] Finish Reading »
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 your [...] Finish Reading »
I absolutely love love love books that changed your life lists. Similarly, I’ve long believed that I’ve probably never even heard my favorite band because of the mass of music that we all miss for any number of reasons. There are tons of bands I’d love that will never even be recorded. There are zillions [...] Finish Reading »
Now that this blog is averaging about three visits per day and has seven RSS subscribers (it may be less actually, I’m afraid to look), I figured it was time to start alienating people. To add insult to injury, some might view this as self-referential and non-hilarious irony… Translation: hypocritical. I’m not doing going to [...] Finish Reading »