Advice from the Weatherman

January 12, 2013

I’m in Steamboat Springs these days – with a primary purpose of starting Revv with Derek.  Tools to Make Change Easy. Secondary purpose – to ski! I pretty religiously check the weather forecast and plan days out accordingly.  This behavior is indicative of my overall agenda to know things, direct things, and control my life. I Have [...]

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Masterpiece Days

January 5, 2013

Today was a Masterpiece Day.  One simple reason: “Had a great conversation with Derek about company and personal values.” A Key Question I’ve added one simple question to my daily review which has been pretty monumental to my life: “Was the day a masterpiece?” When I sit down with folks these days – I typically [...]

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Don’t Settle for Happiness. Demand Meaning.

December 17, 2012

I’m a huge fan of Leo Babuta and Zen Habits.  The Power of Less taught me the beauty of minimalism and how to be happier *because* I had fewer things going on. But Leo just jumped the shark – and I want to call him out on it. Leo started out with a self improvement [...]

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Psychedelic Therapy Cruise – or why to followup on your crazy ideas

December 10, 2012

Pursue your Ideas I had a crazy idea recently.  Psychedelic Therapy Cruise. Instead of shoving it down – I followed up. I hope to do two things with this blog post: Encourage us to take small steps to chasing down those ‘crazy’ ideas. Share what I’ve learned about this interesting business opportunity in the hopes [...]

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Productivity Shockers

November 30, 2012

We’ve been diving deep on creating a new product concept around this theme: We believe that people can become at least 10x more effective at reaching their goals in life with small changes that help them work smarter, not longer. We build simple, powerful productivity tools to help them make these changes. Man have we [...]

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Progression of Intelligence

November 8, 2012

Life. WTF is it? The universal question. I don’t have a strong religious or cultural tradition to guide my way – and as a result I’ve wandered broadly. Is the purpose of life to increase personal happiness?   Doesn’t feel right – Sebastian Marshall does a great job of explaining why happiness shouldn’t be our goal. Increase happiness and fulfillment for [...]

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Stand and Wobble to Get Shit Done

October 31, 2012

I’ve been hacking my desk recently.  By optimizing your work space you can set yourself up for both productivity and health.  Here is my desk: Let’s go through it. Stand Up! A ton has been written on the value of standing up while you work – and the negative health impacts of sitting (see awesome [...]

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Productivity Map

October 24, 2012

I’ve been thinking about productivity quite a bit recently.  First from a personal perspective – I found ways to enhance my ability to reach goals.  I’m still on that journey but now have some tips and tricks under my belt.  I’ve increased my ability to get stuff done by 3-5x. Now I’m thinking business ideas [...]

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Using The Click Moment to Build an Exciting New Business

October 11, 2012

I met Frans Johansson during my time at Brown (he is a fellow alum).  At the time he had just released his excellent book The Medici Effect.  The key insight was that good ideas increasingly happen at ‘The Intersection’ of different fields/ways of thinking.  So mix up trash removal and bee-keeping, or Japanese cuisine and organic [...]

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Good Ideas

September 21, 2012

I’ve recently been speaking with tons of folks who about good ideas to start massive companies.  A couple themes are beginning to reverberate.  Here are some recent comments: Building huge value in software these days is more like the publishing business – it’s awesome you have hardware experience Ben – that’s more valuable in this [...]

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