Reading Time: < 1 min When it comes to tools and systems, there are two areas you can lean on: exploring and exploiting. To put it another way, are you spending time exploring new tools and playing with the shiny toys, or are you actually exploiting (in a good way) the tools at your disposal? Admittedly, I fall a bit […]
Don’t wait to be told
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently finished reading John Miller’s excellent (and rather short) book QBQ (The Question Behind the Question). The focus of the book is about taking responsibility rather than handing out blame, even when blame feels like it might be more appropriate. One piece of taking responsibility is choosing to push things forward without waiting for […]
Storytelling could have saved Google Stadia
Reading Time: 2 min Yesterday, Google announced that they were shutting down Google Stadia. While I was a big fan of the service, the announcement didn’t surprise me very much, as Stadia just never really caught on. If you’re asking “What was Stadia?”, that pretty much explains what happened. If you saw Google’s official Stadia launch trailer a few […]
The why of the sandwich
Reading Time: 2 min A few weeks ago I picked up lunch for the family from Jersey Mike’s Subs. I ordered ahead, but they weren’t quite ready for me, so I sat and waited for a bit. All in all, it was a good experience and good food. While I was waiting, though, I saw something interesting. A woman […]
Determine the conditions to quit before you start
Reading Time: 2 min Perseverance is a wonderful trait to have. If you can fight through obstacles to reach your goal, that’s an amazing thing to do. At times, though, people will keep pushing at a dead end, and end up wasting time that could be put toward other ventures instead. The difference can be very hard to spot […]
Mistakes and heroes are created in advance
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s human nature to judge a decision after the results have come in. I’ve talked about this many times, but the easiest example is the Seattle Seahawks at the end of Super Bowl XLIX. I maintain that they made a good decision that simply had a bad outcome. In his book “Fooled By Randomness“, author […]
Readwise is breathing new life into RSS
Reading Time: 4 min I’ve been using the Readwise Reader app for a few months now, and it’s quickly becoming an indispensable tool for me. You can learn about it on their site here, but for me it really just combines two things — the “read it later” functionality from tools like Pocket, and then the traditional RSS reading […]
What would it take for you to turn away?
Reading Time: < 1 min There are a lot of people that I trust, but very few that I trust unconditionally. When it comes to leadership in politics, there is no one that I will follow “no matter what”. Some have been close. Mike Boyce was transparent, focused, and always did what he felt was the right thing, and I […]
Buy the “gaming” stuff
Reading Time: < 1 min When people are looking to buy products for their business, they often ignore things that have the “gaming” tag on them. They want solid business tools, not toys for gamers. I think they’re often wrong. Recently, my wife needed a new computer chair that had better back support, so we got her this gaming chair. […]
What happens when content REALLY takes off?
Reading Time: 2 min The pace of content on the internet already seems to be at a blistering speed. Twitter sees roughly 350,000 tweets per minute. Users watch roughly 4.5M YouTube videos every minute. Add in other social networks like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and the numbers are unreal. With that we haven’t even talked about web content. Sites […]