I’m sick of how marketing is being done today. Automate scraping leads, automate nagging them with email, automate some series of actions to get them to succumb to your pitch. My inbox is full of people sending me “Did you get my email? You didn’t reply. Were you eaten by…
Brandon Wu sent me this awesome site called Markd. He’s received nice organic traction with it so far because it ranked well on Product Hunt. Brandon, you’ve gotten a ton further than a lot of people do by getting an idea out there into the world. Clearly people are using…
Things remarkably changed when everyone descended upon the hospital to join my mom, father and me. My sister came into town with her boyfriend and my niece. My sister’s best friend showed up for multiple visits and help. My wife grabbed my daughter and all our pets and moved them…
A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to the Art Institute here in Chicago. She’s three. So as you can imagine it wasn’t a tremendous success of actually seeing a ton of art. We had a lot of fun though doing crafts they had set up for kids and…
When I discovered a piece of wood in my food at the hospital. I guess it’s the safest place to be eating wood fragments. A question I get asked a lot is: “Why do you put so much personal information into the things you write and vlog about?” I’ll share…
I upload a new video every single day to YouTube about business and just getting through life. A vlog as some call it. So also, every day, I walk around talking to a camera lens in the middle of a street or crowded event. It’s weird. It’s weird for a…
A couple weeks ago we decided to get an artificial Christmas tree. I love real trees, but years of evidence have proven I’m allergic. We think the dog is too. And the cleanup is a nightmare. So we went to Target looking for one. I didn’t want to go to…
We hired a professional photographer this Christmas and he almost lost our business. My wife is one of four kids. One of those kids has four kids. We have a kid. Another sister has two kids. There’s a lot of us. And this Christmas we finally had most of us…
My 3 year old daughter is in school. Most of her classmates are older than her. She keeps up great. But she reported to us recently, that many kids have called her small. And it makes her feel bad. It’s easy to just chalk this up to kids being naive….
Photo by Steven Lelham There’s an endless list of books about how the greatest become the greatest — deliberate practice. They don’t just show up time after time. They also set short measurable goals and keep stretching them. Time your runs. Swim a bit faster. Get yourself over that pull up bar just…
